Seven Years War
was the inevitable result of colonial expansion, where English settlers moved into the Ohio Valley, and the French tried to stop them by building fortified outposts.
What is The French Indian war?
has been considered as a seminal document in American history, and has been a source of inspiration for movements for civil rights and freedom across the world
What is The Declaration of Independence?
Group that favored a strong federal government
What is Federalists?
The first acts created against the colonies to fund the British after the War were the Sugar act, The Currency Act, and ___
What is the Stamp act?
First president of the United States of America
Who is George Washington?
The French Indian war dragged on for years before the ___ finally gained the upper hand.
What is The English?
The first national constitution of the United State; Intentionally created little to no central government due to fear of creating a tyrannical government
What is the Articles of Confederation?
Group that were followers of Jefferson
What is Republicans/Democratic-Republicans?
a mob pelted a group of soldiers with rock-filled snowballs; Soldiers fired on the crowd, killing five people
What is the Boston Massacre?
Followed Washington as president after his death; who's greatest achievement was avoiding all-out war with France
Who is John Adams?
Ottawa war chief Pontiac rallied a group of tribes in the Ohio Valley and attacked colonial outposts
What is Pontiac's Rebellion?
Was created due to the limitations of the Articles of Confederation
What is the Constitution?
Negotiated by John Jay to address British evacuation of NW and free trade violations
What is Jay's Treaty?
Major British general, Cornwallis, was surrounded by the French navy and George Washington’s troops, and surrendered; is considered a symbolic end to the American Revolution
What is the battle of Yorktown?
This man proposed National Bank to help regulate and strengthen economy; Washington agreed with him and signed bill
Who is Alexander Hamilton
Plan that proposed an intercolonial government and a system for collecting taxes for the colonies' defense
What is Albany Plan of Union?
Papers anonymously authored by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay
What is the Federalist papers?
Negotiated by Thomas Pinckney with Spain, addressing use of Mississippi River, duty-free access to markets, and removal of Spanish forts on American soil
What is Pinckney's Treaty?
goals of this colonial position: enumerate American grievances, develop strategy for addressing grievances, formulate colonial position on relationship between royal government and colonial governments
What is Congress?
acts allowed the government to forcibly expel foreigners and to jail newspaper editors for “scandalous and malicious writing”
What is Alien acts?
English Prime Minister during the war, was supportive of the colonists and encouraged them to join the war effort
Who is William Pitt?
Three branches of governments decided when the constitution was established
What is Executive, Legislative, Judicial?
Implemented excise tax on whiskey caused Farmers in western Pennsylvania to resist and rebel
What is Whiskey Rebellion?
Boston massacre, intolerable acts, and Boston tea party were causes of this battle
A period of major societal and political upheaval in France; witnessed the collapse of the monarchy, the establishment of the First French Republic, and culminated in the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte and the start of the Napoleonic era
What is the French Revolution?