Unit 1
These were the three continents involved in the Triangular Trade.
North America, Europe, and Africa
This person was the main author of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
This is how many votes each state got under the AOC.
1
Washington set the _____________ for future presidents.
Precedents
An indirect tax on lead, glass, paper, tea, and other items.
Townshend Acts
These people came to the colonies to work off their debt and towards owning their own land.
Indentured Servants
The ______________________ stopped colonists from moving across the Appalachian Mountains after the French and Indian War.
The Proclamation (Line) of 1763
Property foreclosures led to this uprising among Massachusetts farmers that ultimately led to the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
Shay's Rebellion
Event where Adams sent diplomats to France but 3 unnamed French officials demand bribes
XYZ Affair
This group of people included Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
Committee of Five
The Colonies sent _____________ to England, England sent __________ to Africa, and Africa sent _____________ back to the colonies and the Americas.
Raw materials, manufactured goods, slaves
This act gave the East India Company special authority in the colonial tea business and shut out colonial tea merchants.
Tea Act of 1773
This group argued that the Constitution gave too much power to the national government and wanted a Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalists
This Supreme Court case established the use of judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
(bonus if you can tell me what happened)
This practice was when the colonies sent all of their raw materials to the mother country, only to have them be sold back to them in the form of manufactured goods.
Mercantilism
This set the expectation that the government would work for the good of ALL citizens - not just the wealthy.
Bacon's Rebellion
Many enslaved and free Blacks would fight in the in the Continental Army with the hopes of _____________.
Expanding their rights
There was no ability to ________ under the Articles because there was not a strong national government
Tax or create new taxes
_____________ is when the British Navy captured soldiers from US merchant ships and forced them to fight for them.
Impressment
The idea that a person should give up some of their powers to the government and in return, the government protects the people.
Social Contract Theory
This was the Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands.
King Philip's War
This document gave America full independence ,all territory east of the Mississippi, and the removal of the British army. (MUST include the year)
Treaty of Paris 1783
A plan that called for a bicameral congress where larger states had more representatives.
Virginia Plan
The two things Washington warned against when giving his Farewell Address.
Don't form political parties and don't get involved in foreign affairs.
The French and Indian War brought an end to salutary neglect and began _______________________, which allowed for Britain to govern their colonies more strictly.
Parliamentary Sovereignty
Jonathan Edwards used this sermon to persuade sinners to recognize that God will judge them in a way that is more terrifying than they can imagine.
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
A group of laws passed by King George III that tightens control over Massachusetts by closing the Boston Harbor and quartering troops
Intolerable Acts
This plan called for a unicameral congress where states are equally represented.
New Jersey Plan
This is the treaty that ended the War of 1812 but did not address underlying causes of the war or the issue with trade.
Treaty of Ghent
The structure of the Declaration of Independence includes these three ideas.
Preamble, Grievances, and Declaration
This colonial region was the most culturally diverse.
The Middle Colonies
Land disputes happened along what area that ultimately led to the French and Indian War.
Ohio River Valley
A compromise that created a bicameral Congress where one house would be based off population and the other would be an equal number of representatives.
Great Compromise
A conference with men and women where they write the Declaration of Sentiments calling for an end to the unequal treatment of women
Seneca Falls Convention
This plan called for a unicameral congress where states are equally represented.
New Jersey Plan
The ___________ placed an emphasis on individual religious experience rather than religious experience through church doctrine.
Great Awakening
The name for German soldiers that helped fight for the British during the American Revolution
Hessians
This allowed a territory that had at least 60,000 residents to become a state where slavery was outlawed.
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This banned trade with England and France, but ended up hurting US trade more than anything.
Embargo of 1807
This document said that the US would protect the Western Hemisphere from any European threats.
Monroe Doctrine
After England starting using the practice of ____________, the colonies began to develop their own governments.
Salutary Neglect
Ben Franklin and John Adams played a large role in convincing this group of people to fight for the colonist during the Revolution. This group ultimately joins after the Battle of Saratoga.
France / French
This was a way to divide up land in the west as well as a way for them to make money under the AOC because it did not give them the power to collect taxes
Land Ordinance of 1785
_ led a slave rebellion where freed slaves killed 60 whites before they were captured and executed. Treatment of slaves got worse due to these consistent rebellions.
Nat Turner
This idea expanded voting rights to include all adult white males, not just landowners
Universal white male suffrage