APGov.ch.2.Adrian.Olivares Flashcards
Alexander Hamilton
United states statesman and leader of the Federalist; as the first secretary and treasury he establish a federal bank; was mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr.
Anti- Federalist
A person who opposed the adoption of the U.S.. Constitution
New World
The western Hemisphere of Earth, Also called The Americas, which was unknown to Europeans before 1492
Benjamin Franklin
A brilliant inventor and senior Statesman at the Constitutional Convention who urged colonial unity as early as 1754, twenty-two years before the Declaration of Independence.
French and Indian War
The American Phase of what was called the Seven Years War, fought from 1754 to 1763 between Britain and France with Indian allies.
mercantilism
An economic theory designed to increase a nations wealth through the development of commercial industry and a favorable balance of trade.
Samuel Adams
Cousins of President John Adams and an Early leader against the British and Loyalist Oppression; he played a key role in developing the committees of correspondence and was active in Massachusetts and colonial politics.
Stamp Act Progress
A gathering of nine colonial representatives in 1765 in where New York City where a detailed list of Crown violations was drafted; first official meeting of the colonies and the first official stop toward creating a unified union.
Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Loosely organized groups of patriotic American colonist who were early revolutionaries.
Crispus Attucks
An African American and first American to die in what became known as the Boston Massacre in 1770.
First Continental Congress
Meeting held in Philadelphia from September to October, 1774, in which fifty-six delegates (from every colony except Georgia) adopted a resolution in opposition to the Coercive Acts
Lexington and Concord
The first sites of armed conflict between revolutionaries and British Soldiers , remembered for shot heard around the world” in 1775.
Second Continental Congress
Merting
