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Legislation and Treaties Flashcards

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Split the non-christian world between Spain and Portugal

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Mayflower Compact

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One of the first documents in America
Agreement on how to run the church
Gov. William Bradford

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Navigation Acts

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Ships must be build by the British
The captain and most of the crew must be British
All goods must travel on English or colonial ships
Cromwell’s War against the Dutch
All goods from BNA had to be shipped to England, unloaded and taxed before they could be sold in the colonies

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Britain’s Declaration of rights

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Possibly a rough draft of America’s Declaration of rights

Crown can’t make laws without parliment

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Treaty of Ryswick

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Ends king William’s war

“Status quo ante-bellum”

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Treaty of Utrecht

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1713
Ends war of Spanish succession
seeming win for Britain
Gives England right to sell slaves in Spanish ports
Big time move into international slave trade

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Treaty of Aix-la-Chappelle

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1748
Ended the war of Austrian succession
only a truce

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Treaty of Paris

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1763
Negotiate new France for sugar islands
Britain gets all of French territory to the Mississippi

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King George and PM Grenville’s new colony policy

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Colonies must pay for their own defense
Follow the navigation acts
End of wise and salutary neglect

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Sugar act

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1764

Taxes on goods imported to the colonies

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Stamp act

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1765

Every newspaper, official document, etc. must pay to have a stamp

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Quartering act

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1765

Colonies must pay for the feeding and housing of British troops

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Declaratory act

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Response to boycott of imported goods after the sugar act
Taxes drop dramatically on imports and exports
parliament saying “we aren’t going to tax you but we could”

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Townsend Duties/acts

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Import duties on glass, lead, paper and tea
Different than sugar, stamp and quartering act
not just for paying for defense of colonies
used to pay for cost of administration
affirmed power of writs of assistance
courts in colonies without jury of peers
more enforcement of the navigation acts

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Coercive/ intolerable acts

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Set of 4 acts that angered colonists

March-May 1774

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Boston port act

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Closes Boston harbor until they pay for the Boston tea party

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An act for the impartial administration of justice

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British officials and soldiers cannot be tried in America

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New quartering act

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Any public building can be used to house troops

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Massachusetts government act

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All government in Massachusetts is suspended

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Quebec act

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Expands territory
appointed officials and counsel (no assemblies)
official church (Catholic)
Colonists fear that this will become the model for America
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Peace of Paris

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September, 1783

  1. recognition of American independence
  2. Spain gets Florida and retains land west of the Mississippi
  3. American fishing rights for Newfoundland and NS
  4. All debts revalidated
  5. “earnest recommendation” to give land back to loyalists- doesn’t happen
  6. all British troops depart
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Declaration of independence

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Jefferson, Franklin, John Adams, R. Livingston, R. Sherman

Jefferson wrote most of it

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Articles of Confederation

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Accepted in 1781
first federal agreement/law
makes federal government very weak
no right to tax, only states could
no mechanism for enforcement
equal representation by state, not by population
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Territorial ordinance

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1784, proposed by Jefferson
Any territory with a population equal to the smallest state (Rhode Island) can become a state
10 territories qualify

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Land Ordinance

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1785, proposed by Jefferson
land surveys and sales
outlined a specific way for splitting up and selling land in the territories

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Northwest ordinance

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Makes it more complicated to become a state
Only 5 territories qualify
no slavery in any of the new northwest states

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Constitution

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Created a stronger central government than the AOC
protect from the tyranny of the majority (esp. religion)
representation by state and by population

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Constitutional amendments

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Must have a 2/3 approval in congress and ratified by 3/4 of the states

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Bill of rights

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first 10 constitutional amendments
Sam Adams needed in order to support the constitution
prompted more states to ratify the constitution

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Whiskey tax

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1791
affected people in outer parts of America more
Easier and cheaper to produce liquor than transport their crops

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Pickney’s treaty

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Spain 1795
Gives America access to Mississippi and New Orleans
establishes and more southern boarder for Florida

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Land act

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1796
Doubles base price of western land ($2 per acre)
can only be sold in complete sections (640 acres)
aimed at keeping people in the east
changes after the change in administration

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Alien and sedition acts

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4 pieces of legislation
Against democratic/republicans
Many people argue that they are unconstitutional

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Naturalization act

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you need to be in America for 14 years before you can become a citizen (previously 5 years)

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Alien act

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allows the president to order and alien out of the country

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Alien enemies act

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aliens can be arrested without cause during times of war

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Sedition act

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illegal for aliens to speak out against the government and president or to hold assemblies

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Revenue act

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1798
taxes on houses, property, and slaves
many states already taxed these

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Embargo act

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non-intercourse
no trading with any other countries
trying to get England to remove the blockade
many people are unhappy about this
causes economy to struggle

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