APUSH Period 3&4 Test Flashcards
What led to the French and British conflicts?
Expansion of British colonists into the interior of North America (Ohio Valley)
Iroquois sided with French
What were the impacts of British and French conflicts?
The French were removed from North America (lost a trading partner)
British colonists expanded on to the native lands
What was the impacts of the French Indian War?
Britain gained large amounts of land
France was essentually removed
Britain became in debt from war
Sought to raise revenue nd gain more control over colonies
What was the impacts of the French Indian War for the English colonies?
Salutary Neglect Ends
Britain begins to collect taxes (Sugar Act 1764, Stamp Act 1765)
Tensions from war helped lead to the American Revolution
Post 7 Years War, what did Britain seek to limit?
Expansion
What forbade expansion west of the Appalachian Mountains for English colonies?
Proclamation Line
Natives resisted what of colonists?
encroachment (Pontiac’s Rebellion)
What united colonists against the British?
British taxes without colonial representation or consent
Who created taxes without colonial representation, stating they were virtually respresented?
Parliment
In what way was colonists okay with colonial taxes?
If they could vote for representation
Colonists successfully _ taxes (stamp and townshed) and they developed more _ in their cause.
boycotted; resolve
What did Enlightenment inspire American political thinkers to emphasize on?
Individual talent over hereditary privilege
Simular to the Great Awakening, what else challenged traditional authoirty?
Enlightenment
Who was an Enlightenment thinker that advocated legal and political equality for all, as well as the end of special privilages for elites?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
After the Revolutionary War, what was outlawed in many states?
primogeniture
Who inherits most, if not all, of property?
Eldest son
Colonial legislatures allowed for significant amounts of what?
self government (which most colonists held dear)
What result from Britain taxing more to colonists?
Colonists resisted the acts
Colonists were okay with _ _ taxes, not _ taxes.
Colonial legislature; Parliment
Were colonial legislatures elected by colonists?
Yes
Was Parliment elected by colonists?
no
What was Thomas Paines Common Sense?
Challenged KG3
it was common sense to break from the corrupt monarch
Little island couldnt rule large continent
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Inspired by Enlightenment ideas (Locke, Paine)
All men had the natural rights of Life Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness
What were the Articles of Confederation and State Constitutions?
Feared strong centralized goverment (Britain)
Articles and state Constitutions had strong legislature branches
Property requirements for voting and citizenship - fear the masses
What was the challenge of trade under the Articles?
each state could place tariffs on goods from otehr states - discouraged trade between states
What was teh challenge of finances under the Articles?
Each state could coin its own money, differing values, high inflaction in some states, also discouraged trade (some states had debt from Rev war; Fedural goverment couldnt require taxes)
What were the challenges under the Articles?
Trade
Finances
Foreign relations
Internal unrest
What was teh challege of Foreign relations under the articles?
Britain refused commerical treaties with US
Congress could not control commerce (Sanctions against Britain)
Spain- cut off access to Mississippi river
Both countries supplied indians with weapons
What was the challenges of internal unrest under the articles?
Shay’s Rebellion: MA farmers demanded debt relief, attacked court houses
The challenges under the Articles helped many Americans realize stronger _ _ was needed.
Central government
What were the 2 Compromises at the Constitutional convention?
Great Compromise (Conneticut Compromise) and 3/5 Compromise
What was the Great/Conneticut compromise?
Roger Sherman
Combined VA plan (large states) and NJ plan (small states)
Created bicameral system
A census would be taken every 10 years to determine population
What was the 3/5 Compromise?
For the purpose of representation, 3/5 slaves woud count as 1 person in South
Both Great and 3/5 Compromse settled issues of what?
Representation
What was there a limit on under the constitiution?
Federal power
What is the division of power between state and federal goverment?
Federalism
What did Federalism do?
Gave Specific powers for both the federal and state governments
Why was the constitution finally radified?
Federalists (those who favored the constitiution) promised to add Bill of Rights that protected liberties
What as added shortly after the constitution was ratified?
first 10 admendments
Political parties emerged over what issues?
Relationship between national goverment and states
Economic policy
Foreign affairs
What happened within relatonships between national governments and states?
Federalists favored stronger national governments
Democrates/Republicans favored a smaller government
VA and KY Resolutions
What are the VA and KY resolutions?
belief that states could nulify federal laws
What happened within economic policies?
Hamilton’s Financial Plan (Federalists) would strengthen the federal goverment
The creation of the BUS wasnt mentioned in Constitution
Hamilton argues Necessary and Proper or elsastic clauses
What happened within forein affairs?
Federalists favored Britain (trade)
Democratic and Repulicans favored France (saw French Rev as an extension to American Rev)
What was the Republican Motherhood?
Women were expected to instil republican values in children and families
Increased educational oppurtunities in women
Who were the federalist’s against?
anti-federalists
What was written to advocate the radification of the constitution?
Federalist papers
What was established by Washington and Adams?
Institutions and precedents
What was created by Washington and Adams under institutions and precedents?
2nd term tradition (until 22 amendments by Washington)
creation of cabinet
creation of the Bank of US (BUS) Alexander Hamilton
What was the order of the Acts?
Sugar Act 1764 Stamp Act 1765 Quartering Act 1765 Declaration Act 1766 Townshead and Revenue Act 1767 Tea Act 1773 Intolerable Act 1774
After the French lost the 7 years war, what arose and continured throughout the late 18th century?
White Indian conflicts
Where were the Paxton Boys located?
Pennsylvania
Who were the Paxton Boys?
Scots-Irish group that was upset with Pennsylvania’s leniency toward Natives
What did the Paxton boys do?
Murdered 20 Natives then marched to Philadelphia with demands
Who helped resolved the march by promising to consider their issues?
Ben Franklin
When and where was the battle of Fallen Timbers?
1794; Ohio
What was the battle of Fallen Timbers?
Natives, led by Little Turtle, defeated Americans
Killed 630 Americans
What treaty did the Indians sign after their defeat in 1794?
Treaty of Greenville
What was the impact of the battle of Fallen Timbers?
Natives ceded a lot of land
Were allowed to keep some land but it was later encroached
Due to migration within North America, what emerged around the world?
backcountry culture
What did back country cultures fuel?
social and ethnic tensions
What was the impact of back country culture?
Scots-Irish
Shay’s Rebellion
Where did Scots-Irish settle?
Frontier (edge of settlements)
Settled on land without regard to ownership (government, natives)
What rebellion was a rebellion of farmers that demanded an end of foreclosures, imprisionment for debts, and paper currency? (closed courts)
Shay’s Rebellion
Scots-Irish and Shay’s rebellion illustrated tensions between what groups?
poor (back country) and wealthy (interior)
Where did Spain expand settlements in the 1760s?
California
What was created when Spain moved to California?
Missions (forts)
trade expanded
What happened to Natvies when Spain moved to California?
died from disease
forced to convert to Christianity
What was the Northwest Land Ordinance 1787?
Created a process to admit new states (60,000 pop)
Guaranteed freedom of religion and trial by jury (before Bill of Right)
Slavery was abolished (Civil War starter)
A portion of land sales went to fund education
What treaty helped settle conlict between US and Britain (British were attacking US ships, still had presence in key ports)?
Jay’s treaty
What treaty was where Spain, fearing a British-US alliance, signed it. (US could navigate the Mississippi, given right to of deposit in New Orleans, Florida boundry was fixed where US wanted it)?
Pinckney’s Treaty
What were the reasons for political parties?
Economic
Political
Foreign policies
What were regional differences in political parties?
Urban, wealthy upper class tended to be Federalists (merchants/trading) Rural farmers, middle to low class tended to be Democratic Republican
Jefferson believed that farmers were _ of the economy.
Backbone
What economic policies did the political groups believe in?
Federalists: Hamiltons Financial Plan; BUS
D/R: were wary of it
Did Federalists want a strong central government?
yes
Who did each politcal party favor in foreign policy?
Federalists: Britain (trade)
D/R: France (French Rev was an etension of American Rev)
What became a staple crop of the south?
Cotton