APUSH 1
Following the ratification of this document, the British government began the process of attempting to consolidate control over the American colonies
What is the 1763 Treaty of Paris?
With few exceptions, banned maritime commercial activities in MA Bay in 1774
What is the Port of Boston Act?
the main colonial complaints about the Vice-Admiralty courts
What are no jury and one had to prove their innocence?
contained in the Declaration, it states that the people must obey the govt's decrees so long as the govt protects their natural rights
Social compact/contract theory
Albany Congress, Stamp Act Congress, First Continental Congress have this in common
What is they demonstrate growing colonial unity
early psychological victory that demolished the idea of Redcoat invincibility
Bunker Hill
In 1765, reps. of 9 colonies in NYC drafted a Declaration of Grievances that denied Parliament's right to tax the colonies internally (domestically)
What is the Stamp Act Congress?
The Administration of Justice Act did this
What is allowed royal officials in the colonies to have their trials moved to England?
required Britain to cede all territory to the US east of the MS River
What is the 1783 Treaty of Paris?
Why most Indian nations sided with the British during the AMREV
What is a British win would prevent or slow westward expansion by Americans?
document that laid out the case for colonial defense following Concord and Lexington
What is the Necessities of Taking Up Arms?
Southern battle of the AMREV, forces Cornwallis to abandon his plans to invade NC after his Tory militia is crushed by Patriot militia from the Carolinas, Georgia, and what later becomes Tennessee
What is King's Mountain
This economic response on the part of the colonies led to the repeal of the Stamp and Townshend Acts
What is non-importation?
minor battle that kept the AMREV alive by convincing many Continentals to re-enlist for another year
What is Trenton?
Women played a role as moral and civic guides to their husbands and children
What is republican motherhood
Federalist Papers author who believed a "large republic" would check the problem of factions, as no one could achieve a true majority (Fed No. 10 & 51)
James Madison
What is Valley Forge?
following this battle which demonstrated the effectiveness of Steuben's training methods, the war in the North bogs into a stalemate, and the British focus their attention on the South
What is Monmouth Courthouse
What is liberty and tyranny?
This movement included a range of ideas centered on the pursuit of happiness, sovereignty of reason, and advanced ideals such as liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state (aka religious freedom).
What is The Enlightenment
The Sugar Act was intended to eliminate smuggling between these colonies and the English colonies in the Americas
What are the Dutch and French colonies in the West Indies/Caribbean?
Polish cavalry officer killed in a Franco-American attempt to retake Savannah in 1779
Who is Pulaski?
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
What is Salutary neglect
The arrival of a French naval squadron commanded by this man sealed Cornwallis's fate at Yorktown
What is de Grasse?
the blame for the Whiskey Rebellion may be laid at this man's feet, as his financial plan proposed an excise tax on whiskey that hurt small distillers and/or farmers
Who is Alexander Hamilton?
plan that was closer to the Congress's intention for the Philadelphia Convention of 1787
What is New Jersey Plan?
The Continental loss at Brandywine led to British occupation of this city from 1777-78
What is Philadelphia?
What is the MS River?
Created by the Philadelphia convention to ensure that the national chief magistrate would not be beholden to any one region and/or combination of states
What is the electoral college?
his strategy involved dividing his forces, which forced the British to divide theirs, which led to the eventual weakening of the British army in the South
Who is Nathanael Greene?