Period 3 Flashcards
Boston Tea Party
Colonists protested Tea Acts/ Townshend by dumping tea in river
Resulted in Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
Coercive Acts- Clokes port of Boston
- takes away Massachusets self-governing
Quebec Act- Ohio valley given to Quebec(French) Control
1789 George Washington
1st president
Made constitution work
Neutral foreign policy
Invention of Cotton Gin 1794
Allowed more cotton things to be produced.
Increased need for slavery
1763- Pontiac’s Rebellion
a loose confederation of Native Americans from numerous tribes fight for their land against the British
Proclamation Line of 1763
Anything west of the Appalachian Mountains is for Natives
1765- Stamp Act
Tax on paper goods
Stamp act congress
Repealed 1766 because ofprotests
Townshend Acts
includes Quartering Act
tax on tea, glass, paper
1775- Dunmore’s Proclamation
Dunmore tells Virgina militia to go home or he will arm and free the enslaved.
1775-1783 American Revolution
Colonists start war to gain independence from Britain.
1776- Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jeffeson wrote and explained reasons for breaking political ties with Great Britain.
1776-1787 Articles of Confederation
1st constitution and it failed because it had a weak central governemnt
1787 Northwest Ordinance
Process for new states to be admittted into the union.
Slavery was not allowed in territory, but maybe once its a state.
Federalist Papers
A collection of essays by John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison.
Encouraged a strong central government.
Shay’s Rebellion
Shows need for constitutional change
Shows articles of confederation were too week to end even small rebellions.
1791- Whiskey Rebellion
Kentucky distillers protest tax on making whiskey, rebels are crushed
