French & Indian War
Largely ignoring the regulation and commerce of the colonies is called
What is Salutary Neglect?
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
A formal statement that expressed the colonies’ desire to separate from the British and form their own government. It was drafted by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The original constitution of the United States created by the Second Continental Congress.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Anti-Federalists refused to consider ratifying the Constitution without the inclusion of this significant item
The Bill of Rights
The treaty between Britain, France, and Spain, which ended the Seven Years' War. France lost all major land claims in the New World.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
An act passed by the British parliament in 1765 that raised revenue from the American colonies to pay off French and Indian war debt by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
What is the The Stamp Act?
Last ditch effort by the colonists to prevent conflict with the British. The Continental Congress pledged loyalty to the crown while still trying to address the rights of the colonists. It was REJECTED by the British king.
Olive Branch Petition
During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront, urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government, advocated for full citizenship
Who is Abigail Adams?
Agreement reached upon at the Constitutional Convention that declared that slaves in the south would count as three-fifths of a person for voting purposes.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
HIS pamphlet, published in Jan 1776, was instrumental in convincing many Americans to support independence
Who is Thomas Paine
Peace settlement in which the British formally recognized American independence and granted them the land west to the Mississippi and fishing rights in Newfoundland.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783) ?
Enacted in 1787, established a system for setting up governments in the western territories and a path to statehood on an equal footing with the original 13 states, banning slavery in the territories
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
A system of government in which power is divided between the central government and the states
What is Federalism?
British commander in the French & Indian war. He was killed by an American colonist after he mistakenly ordered British troops to fire upon colonial forces.
Who is General Braddock?
An event that occurred on March 5, 1970 when British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonists who were protesting the taxes imposed by the British.
What is the Boston Massacre?
Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support.
What is Saratoga?
Give an appropriate title for the list below:
1. No power to tax.
2. No power to regulate interstate commerce.
3. No common currency.
4. National revenue came from land purchases.
This conflict demonstrated the strength of the new federal govt under the Constitution
What is the Whiskey Rebellion
Native American uprising against the British, who were expanding into the Ohio Territory. They began attacking colonial settlements but were later suppressed by British troops.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
Required the colonists to provide food, lodging, and supplies for British troops. Accelerated by the Intolerable Acts.
What is the Quartering Act?
This battle proved to be the decisive engagement of the American Revolution. The British surrender by Cornwallis forecast the end of British rule.
What is Yorktown?
idea that women had a duty to shape the morals of future political leaders
What is republican motherhood
Compromise reached at the Constitutional Convention that established proportional representation of the states in the House of Representatives but equal representation in the Senate. Solved the dispute over the adoption of the Virginia Plan or the New Jersey Plan.
What is The Great Compromise?