ID Terms #3 Flashcards
Common Sense
Date: January 1776
What: This was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. He wanted to turn the anger away from parliamentary measures from the Americans. he wrote for the Americans to break away completely from Political system
Why: This helped build the idea to the Americans in 1776 and helped them gain a sense of nationalism.
Battle of Saratoga
Date: August 6th, 1777
What: This was a battle that occurred near the Hudson river. The British began to think that they’re all bad ass and shit so they went ahead getting ready for the attack. This ended up being an allied victory
Why: This was a setback for the efforts of several Iroquois leaders.
Franco American Alliance
Date: 1778
What: This was an alliance between the Americans and the french against the British.
Why: This made it so there was were large international conflicts between the British, French, Americans, and the Spaniard, causing their resources to be reduced.
Treaty of Paris
Date: September 3, 1783
What: This had a great advantage in the untied states because it allowed recognition of independence in the colonies. They got new territory from southern Canada all the way to the Florida area. the British left now and the Americans rejoiced.
Why: This was the goal of the Franco american alliance which which seeked for america to become independent.
Manumissions
Date: After the Great war
What: This is the act or process of releasing slaves from slavery. This was the first step to things like the emancipation proclamation.
Why: This was the started of the release of shaves which thus there was a higher population of the free rate
Tories
Date: No specificness, but during and after the revolutionary war
What: This is also known to be British supporters. Tories are Americans that had the views of the British and supported the British during the revolutionary war. Tories often sided with the Cavaleers during the English civil war.
Why: They were the resistance in the Americas that kept the Americans or the Yankees from revolting and fucking themselves over.
Abigail Adams
Date: 1776
What: She is the wife to John Adams who fought for more fair treatment for women. In the 1776 she wrote her husband that she hoped that men would treat women better then their fellow ancestors have.
Why: This signifies that there were beginning fights for women equality
State Constitution
Date: 1776
What: This was when each state wrote their own constitution because of the British rule. By 1776 both Connecticut and Rhode Island had constitutions and their own government. They each decided to wrote their own constitution so that there would not be any corruption.
Why: This showed that the colonies were indeed trying to break away from the British rule and settle their own government based of what they felt.
Land Ordicance
Date: 1784
What: This was created by Thomas Jefferson. This wanted to divide the western territories into self governing districts. It was said that they could petition for statehood as soon as their population equaled the population of the smallest state.
Why: The problem with this was that it made the formation of a community more difficult this the created the northwest ordiance
Northwest Ordiance
Date: 1787
What: Granted the whole area to be one territory. They passed a thing saying that now in order to be a state they must have at least 60,000 people.
(Look at the grid system in your notebook Tiffy, Please don’t be a dumbass)
Shays Rebellion (Fucking This ones Important)
Date: 1786
What: This was against the constitution. This was an uprising of farmers lead by a man named Daniel Shay. They were able to prevent the collection of debts that were either private or public.
Why: This showed some concession for farmers that were aggravated and yeah.
Great Compromise
Date: July 2, 1786
What: This called that there will be 2 house legislatures. This was made by Benjamin Franklin. Each slave would be counted as 3/5 of a person
Why: This was important because it allowed for temples to simmer down just a bit and establish a form of government that they felt was important
Anti-Fedralist
Date: 1787-1788
What: These were people that did not support the constitution. They felt that making a constitution would only increase their taxes and weaken the states. They complained that the constitution lacked a bill of right
Why: The significance of this was that the government needed a bill of rights and it also showed the thinking of the southerners during the civil war.
Hamilton’s Economic Plan
Date: 1791
What: He wanted it so that the government would have a permanent national debt so that the rich people would feel obligated to want to give the government loans. He stated that a successful government had to have a stable ruling class.
Why: This is what caused the banking system to be incorporated in the USA
Whiskey Rebellion
Date: 1794
What: Farmers in Pennsylvania were pissed because of the new whiskey taxes. They refused to pay them. The rebellion collapsed when a group of 15,000 Soldiers stormed inside and caused them to collapse by simply appearing.
Why: Because of this the last 2 colonies in the USA joined the union
