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Period 3: 1754-1800 Flashcards

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French + Indian War

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War over land disputes in the Ohio River Valley between the French and the British

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Albany Plan

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A potential solution to the French and Indian War that would have united the colonies

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Peace of Paris treaty

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Gave Britain French Canada and Florida and ousted the French from America

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Effects of French + Indian War

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  • Britain taxed the colonists to pay for the war
  • Salutary neglect ended
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Pontiac’s Rebellion

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Indians tried to resist westward expansion and destroyed US forts, Britain sent troops in response

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Proclamation of 1763

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Prohibited colonists from settling westward of the Appalachian Mountains

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Virtual Representation

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Britain thought colonists were represented in Parliament because there were people of all classes

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Sugar Act

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Put a tax on luxury goods

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Quartering Act

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Required colonists to house British soldiers

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Stamp Act

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Tax on all printed goods

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Patrick Henry

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Spoke out against the Stamp Act

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Anti-act groups

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Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, Daughters of Liberty

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Stamp act was replaced by the

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Declaratory Act (gave Parliament right to make any tax it wanted)

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Townshend Acts

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  • Tax on imports of tea, glass, paper
  • allowed for random searches of private property
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Boston Massacre

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Conflict between Americans and British soldiers that enraged Americans

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Boston Tea Party

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Colonists dumped millions of dollars worth of imported British tea into the harbor

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The Intolerable Acts were in reaction to what:

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The Boston Tea Party

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Intolerable Acts

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Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Quartering Act

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Port Act

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Closed the Boston Harbor

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Massachusetts Government Act

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Took away power from Massachusetts Legislature

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Declaration of Rights and Grievances

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Made by the Stamp Act Congress and requested the colonists get representation in Parliament

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Social contract

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Idea that people give the government power in exchange for protection of rights

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Thomas Paine

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Wrote Common Sense to appeal to the public that encouraged revolution

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First Continental Congress

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Meeting of men from almost all colonies > they only wanted rights!

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Suffolk Resolves

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Document issued by the 1st Continental Congress that called for the repeal of the intolerable acts

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Main battles of Revolutionary war

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Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Yorktown

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Second Continental Congress

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Another meeting of colonies, some people wanted independence but some wanted rights

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Olive Branch Petition

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Made by the 2nd Continental Congress and pledged loyalty but requested rights

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Impact of Battle of Saratoga

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Convinced the French to ally with the Americans

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Battle of Yorktown

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Where Britain surrendered

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Peace Treaty of Paris

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Made America an Independent country

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Roles of women in the revolution

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  • Boycotted goods and kept the house running
  • Cooks and nurses for soldiers
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Republican Motherhood

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The idea that women needed to be educated so they could raise good sons

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Revolutions inspired

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French, Haitian, Latin American

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Articles of Confederation

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The extremely weak first attempt at a government that basically gave the states all the power

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Good things to come out of the Articles of Confederation

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Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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Land Ordinance of 1785

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Opened up western territories for settlement

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Northwest ordinance of 1787

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Creating the rules for creating new states

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Shay’s Rebellion

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Daniel Shay lead farmers in rebellion because of high taxes and imprisonment for debt and the government’s struggle to suppress it showed how bad the Articles were

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Constitutional Convention

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Meeting with the purpose of fixing the federal government

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Issues of the constitutional convention

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  • separation of powers
  • checks and balances
  • representation
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Virginia Plan vs New Jersey Plan

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Large states wanted proportionate rep, small states wanted equal rep

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Connecticut Plan

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Compromise > made a senate with equal rep and a house of reps with proportionate reps

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3/5 compromise

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Each enslaved person counted for 3/5 of a vote

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Federalists

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Wanted strong central government and to ratify the Constitution

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Antifederalists

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Wanted states rights and a bill of rights

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Federalism

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Power is divided between the federal and state governments

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Federal government got control over —– issues

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Country wide

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State government got control over —– issues

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State only

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Issues during Washington’s presidency

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  1. Making of cabinets
  2. Alexander Hamilton’s plan for a national bank
  3. Judiciary Act
  4. Proclamation of Neutrality
  5. Jay Treaty
  6. Battle of Fallen Timbers
  7. Whiskey Rebellion
  8. Pinckney Treaty
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Alexander Hamilton’s Financial Plan

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Make a national bank, consolidate state debts, high tariffs

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Judiciary Act

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Established the Supreme Court

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Proclamation of Neutrality

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The US would not get involved in the French Revolution

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Jay Treaty

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Was supposed to stop impressment but instead got Britain to abandon posts in the US

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Battle of Fallen Timbers

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Indians tried to stop Americans from encroaching on their land but got shut down

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Whiskey Rebellion

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Farmers refused to pay the tax on whiskey and revolted but Washington stopped them

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Pinckney Treaty

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Got the US access to the Port of New Orleans and defined border of Florida

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Events during John Adams Presidency

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  1. XYZ affair
  2. Alien and Sedition acts
  3. Virginia and Kentucky resolutions
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XYZ affair

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French were seizing US ships and when the US tried to negotiate they demanded a bribe

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Alien and Sedition Acts

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Allowed the US to deport immigrants and prohibited criticism of the government

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Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

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Made in response to the alien and sedition acts and declared them null/void

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