Mid Term Flashcards
Jamestown and Plymouth. main motivation? adventurers wanted to stake English claim to prevent Spanish from taking over all of North America
first English colonie
labor system where people paid for their passage to the New world by working for an employer for a certain number of years
indentured servants
European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition
enlightenment
1st president of the U.S., commander-in-chief of the continental army during American Revolutionary Wat, and one of the Foundig Fathers of the U.S.
George Washington
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War
Battle of Lexington
A founding father of the u.s. author of the common sense, was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and Revolutionary
Thomas Paine
A founding father of the u.s. leader of the movement that later became the American Revolution and was an architect that helped shape political culture of the U.S.
Samuel Adams
former after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became that United States of America
continental army
adopted by continental congress on November 5, 1777. Served as u.s. 1st constitution
Articles of Comfederation
statement adopted by comtinental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4,1777. announced the 13 American colonies
Declaration of Independence
name given to a series of protests in 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enrollment of tax collections and judgements for debt
shays’ rebellion
u.s. federal statue adopted on Septembr 24, 1789 in the first session of the first congress. established federal judiciary of the u.s.
judiciary act of 1789
an act of best of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers of government in separate bodies
separation of powers
collection of 85 articles and essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay. promoting the ratification of the u.s. constitution
the federalist
American statesman, political theorist, and the 4th president of the u.s. aka “Father of the Constitution for drafting the u.s. constitution.
James Madison
a Founding Father of the u.s. chief staff aside to General George Washington. Founder of the Federalist Party
Alexander Hamilton
a political and diplomatic episode on 1797 and 1798, early in the administration of John Adams, involving a confrontation between the u.s. and republican France
XYZ affair
a tax protest in the u.s. beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington
Whiskey Rebellion
American soldier, politician, and diplomat who negotiated Pinckney’s treaty
Thomas Pinckney
landmark u.s. Supreme Court case in which the court formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the u.s. under Article III of the constitution.
Marbury vs. Madison
American lawyer and Founding Father, and principal author of the Declaration of Independence. elected 2nd Vice President of the u.s.
Thomas Jefferson
Native American leader of the Shawnee and large tribal confederacy which opposed the u.s. during ________ War and became an ally of Britain in the War of 1812
Tecumseh
7th president of the u.s. elected to the u.s. House of Representatives and the to u.s. senate
Andrew Jackson
American statesman who served as the 6th president of the u.s. from 1825 to 1829
John Quincy Adams