French + Indian War / American Revolution
Who is John Locke
A formal document in which the Continental Congress representing the American colonies detailed its reasons for breaking political bonds with Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence
A Widely unpopular tax on a paper goods, that was repealed in 1766 after mass protests erupted across the colonies. Colonists developed the principle of "no taxation without representation" that questioned Parliament's authority over the colonies and laid the foundation for future revolutionary claims.
What is the Stamp Act
Revolutionary leader who wrote the pamphlet Common Sense (1776) arguing for American independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine
Opponents of the 1787 Constitution, saying that the document were antidemocratic. They objected to the subordination of the states to the central government, and feared intrusions on individuals' liberties without of a bill of rights.
What are Anti-Federalists
A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.
What is the Proclamation of 1763
An amendment aimed at protecting US citizens rights put forth by Anti-Federalists.
What is the Bill of Rights
In response to the Boston Tea Party, punitive laws were passed by the British Parliament in 1774, meant to punish Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts
set up Kansas and Nebraska as states. Each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. People who were proslavery and antislavery moved to Kansas, but some antislavery settlers were against the Act.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
A political party that follows a strict interpretation of the constitution and favors a small government. They want the US to be a nation of small, independent farmers. Created by Madison and Jefferson.
What are Democratic-Republicans
An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War where Indians opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area.
What is Pontiac's Rebellion
The first American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress, which was not granted the power to regulate commerce or collect taxes.
What are the Articles of Confederation
In an effort to avoid war with Britain, promised to evacuate outposts on U.S. soil and pay damages for seized American vessels, in exchange for the United States to repay pre-Revolutionary War debts and to abide by Britain's restrictive trading policies toward France.
What is Jay's Treaty
A movement that called for abstinence from alcohol, combined a concern for general social ills with religious sentiment and practical health considerations in a way that was appealing to many middle-class reformers.
What is the Temperance Movement
Proponents of the 1787 Constitution, they favored a strong national government, arguing arguing that the checks and balances in the new Constitution would safeguard the people's liberties.
What are Federalists
Bloodless Revolution where James II was removed from the throne and replaced with William and Mary, and American colonists were temporarily freed of strict, anti-Puritan laws.
What is the Glorious Revolution
A part of the constitution which requires each of the three branches of government executive, legislative, and judicial-to be relatively independent of the others so that one cannot control the others.
What is separation of powers
Local committees established across Massachusetts, and later in each of the thirteen colonies, to maintain colonial opposition to British policies through the exchange of letters and pamphlets.
What is the Committees of Correspondents
Urged middle class women to focus on raising children and taking care of the home and promoted the idea that a women's role was to "civilize" her husband and her family.
What is the Cult of Domesticity
The economic idea that a country's wealth is measured by the amount of gold it owns. The goal of mercantilist economic policy is to export more goods than you import, so that you bring more money into the country than you send out to other nations.
What is mercantilism
Ended the French and Indian War between Great Britain and France, and France giving up all of their territories in North America.
What is the treaty of Paris
A constitutional arrangement whereby power is divided between national and sub national governments, each of which enforces its own laws directly on its citizens and neither of which can alter the arrangement without the consent of the other.
What is federalism
A formal announcement issued by President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the United States a neutral nation in the conflict between Great Britain and France that had begun with the French Revolution.
What is the Proclamation of Neutrality
policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants, associated with being anti-immigrant or anti-immigration.
What is nativism
British political commentators in the 18th century who were against political corruption and emphasized what a threat that arbitrary power was liberty.
What is Radical Whigs