Laws
A tax introduced in 1773 that led to the Boston Tea Party
Tea Act
Annapolis Convention
The "Meeting of Commissioners to Remedy Defects of the Federal Government". It was the precursor to the constitutional conventions where the delegates discussed the defects of the Articles of Confederation
Ended the Great War for Empire on terms largely favorable to Britain in land and resource possession
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Term for European countries
Old World
Popular Sovereignty
Government ruled and created by the people for the people
Coercive Acts
Known as the intolerable acts, laws enforced by Britian including the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Administration of Justice Act, and Quartering Act
Government from 1775-1781 that drafted the Articles of Confederation and issued the Olive Branch Petition and wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Second Constitutional Congress
U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
A document written in 1948 that lists inalienable rights that inlcude life, liberty, property and the right to certain things like housing, education and healthcare.
Global power that fought in the revolutionary war
Britain
Given to us by John Locke these are based on natural laws that not even royalty could violate. These laws are universal, fundamental and inalienable.
Natural rights
An act stating trade must be done with British-owned and built vessels
Non-British goods had to be “laid on the shores of England” before being sent to North America so they could be taxed as imported luxuries
North America had to send “enumerated” products only to Britain
Navigation Acts
In 1787 a secret meeting of delegates from 12 states happened to amend the Articles of Confederation. At the end of the meeting, they created a new document for the budding nation.
Constitutional Convention
Treaty of Paris of 1783
Negotiated terms for end of the revolutionary war in favor of the United States.
Grand Banks
Location of the greatest fishing ground in the world with crazy amounts of Atlantic cod founded by John Cabot
Mercantilism
Economic system based on the idea that there is a finite amount of wealth that promoted national self-sufficiency and was replaced by laissez faire capitalism
A case from 1823 that barred private citizens from buying land from Native Americans stating that only the U.S government can negotiate land buying.
Johnson v. McIntosh
Electoral College
The process in which the President is elected where both the upper and lower house of the legislature vote in leu of the people.
A reaffirmation of loyalty to King George by the continental congress that asked the king to repeal the coercive acts and have equal representation
Olive Branch Petition
The only state that boycotted the Constitutional Convention by not sending a delegate and was the last to ratify the Constitution.
Rhode Island
Doctrine of Discovery
A religious, political, and legal justification for Europeans to seize lands from non-Christians
Marbury v. Madison
The 1803 court case that gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review.
Stamp Act Congress
First form of government in the colonies. Arising after the stamp act, they wrote the Declaration of Rights and Grievances which called for no taxation without representation
Second Treatise on Civil Government
Written by John Locke this book uses natural rights to justify the glorious revolution and made the classic liberal argument which is against monarchies and declared all men are equal. He also mentions the right to revolution
Maryland
The state that was the last to adopt the Articles of Confederation and only did so once the Virginia Cession took place
Meaning "territory without a master", this idea was used by France and Britain to justify colonizing any non-Christian land since it was unimproved land
Terra Nullius