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This made the United States a reality.
What was the Treaty of Paris in 1783?
This event helped push towards a stronger national government.
What was Shay's Rebellion?
In 1763, many white residents assumed this about American Indians.
What was an enemy race?
This rebellion was a focus as a result of the governments new tax effort.
What was Shay's rebellion?
This was the temporary location of the capital in the spring of 1789.
Where was New York City?
Lexington and Concord led many to do this.
What was start their own militias?
What was army members being paid?
What was the army reducing numbers?
What was Washington returning home to Mount Vernon?
This was the effect of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War).
What was pressure to apply new taxes for the cost of the war?
This allowed two senators from each state.
What was the Great Compromise?
As Vermont abolished slavery in 1783, this happened to other states.
What was other northern states moving toward emancipation?
These were the effects of the Declaration of Independence.
What was joy among residents of the major cities such as New York and Philadelphia?
What was gain morale?
What was started the need for a formal alliance to conduct the war and afterwards?
This helped to inflame tensions in the Boston area by adding an additional tax.
This naval policy created resentment by the townspeople.
What was impressment of sailors?
Anti-Federalists objected to the Constitution over this.
What was no Bill of Rights included?
This was a long term result of the fugitive slave clause.
What was increased strife from many northerners who did not support the fugitive slave cause.
This is the group of colonial women who organized a boycott of British goods in the 1770s.
Who were the Daughters of Liberty?
This organization helped commerce and trade while providing credit.
What was the Bank of the United States?
This was a major law needed in 1789.
This was the first priority of Washington as first president.
What was establishing the executive branch?
This solved the dispute between larger and small states about representation.
What was the Great Compromise?
These beliefs were shared among the delegates at the time of the First Continental Convention.
What was the British treatment of Boston was unjust?
What was the belief Parliament had no right to tax them without their consent?
What were the rights of people in the colonies were based on the laws of nature and British Constitution?
British leaders took what steps to stop unrest in the colonies that happened in 1774 and 1775.
What were a series of courts to restore law and order?
What was the clamp down of smuggling and collecting arms?
What was the stationing of more troops in coastal towns?
They helped with raising funds for troops, cared for troops, and harvest lands.
Who were women patriots?
This document required nine states to pass a law, state legislatures were too strong, and all 13 states had to agree to pay taxes.
What was the weakness of Articles of Confederation?
These are the key differences between the Virginia and New Jersey Plans.
The New Jersey plan called for two elected houses by equal size.