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Period 3 1754-1800 Flashcards

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The enlightenment (age of reason)

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Reason and rationality

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French and Indian war 1754-1763 (7 years war 56-63)

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French + Natives vs British Colonists and Iroquois

  • Brits won
  • got Florida from Spain
  • gave Spain Louisiana
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French and Indian war results

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French give up all north American land

-British expand into native land

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Pontiac’s rebellion 1763

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After french and Indian war

  • began to destroy british forts
  • pontiac was killed
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Proclamation line 1763

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No settlements West of the Appellations

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The Paxton Boysm1764

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Scots- Irish

-killed 20 Indians

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Sugar act 1764

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  • import tax on sugar, coffee, other
  • major price rise
  • -boycotted British goods, tarr and feathered tax collectors

“no taxation without representation” -James Otis

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Stamp act 1765

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Tax on all things printed!!!!!!!!!!!

–riots

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Sons of liberty

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By Sam Adams

  • riots, demanded not stamp act
  • boycotted English goods
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Declaratory act 1766

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Repeals the stamp act

–parliament- has the right to to make laws without colonial consent

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Townshend Act 1767

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  • tax on: glass, tea, paper

- search homes for smuggled goods

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John Dickinson Letters for a Pennsylvania Farmer, 1767

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Protested British “rights” to raise taxes.

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Boston massacre 1770

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Protest against British customs agents

  • violence
  • 5 colonists killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Boston tea party 1773

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To protest tea act

-don’t let it get to shore

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First continental congress 1774

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Protested the “intolerable acts”

  • boycotted British imports
  • petitioned the king for changes
  • -against unfair judicial system and taxes
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Battle of Lexington and concord 1775

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1st shots fired

-Brits retreat

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Second continental congress 1775

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Opposed independence

  • negotiations
  • repeat the coercive acts
  • —rejected by the king
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John Lock

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“social contact”

  • life, liberty, and property are RIGHTS
  • by the people for the people
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Republican form of government

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Representative government

  • popular sovereignty
  • liberty is a civic virtue
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Tomas Paine, common seance 1776

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Rise up against British

  • new gov based on enlightenment
  • no larger body should be ruled by a smaller one
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Declaration of independence 1776

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Start war!!!!!

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Adam smith

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Father of modern economics

  • attacked mercantilism
  • free trade-
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Battle of Saratoga 1777

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Us surrounds Brits

  • Brits surrender
  • French join war on us side
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Treat of alliance 1778

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Us and French alliance in war

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Battle ow Yorktown 1781

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Cornwallis (Brit) surrenders

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Treaty of Paris 1783

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USA independent!!!!!!!!!!

  • all north American territory from Atlantic to Mississippi and Canada to Florida
  • fishing right on Newfoundland
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Iroquois confederation

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7 yr war Indian alliance

- power in Great Lakes region

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Chief little turtle

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Miamis leader

-killed 100s/ of USA citizens

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Articles of Confederationn1781-1789

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1st us constitution

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Shays rebellion 1786-1787

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Farmers rebellion against articles of confederation

  • “unfair” tax
  • 12,000 men rebelled
  • weakens aoc
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Constitutional convention 1787

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Drafted the constitution

-greater central government

32
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Great compromise

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Representation per state (senate)
Population size (house)
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Federalist papers 1787-1788

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By John Jay, Madison, Hamilton

-supported a federal constitution

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Judiciary act 1789

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Created federal court system

-and local (state) courts

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Bill of Rights 1791

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1st 10 amendments

-civil rights

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George Washington

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Civil war leader

-first president

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Ben Franklin

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American dream

  • ambassador to France
  • influenced the constitution
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John Adams

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Federalist (big gov)

  • second us president
  • alien and sedition acts
39
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Thomas Jefferson

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1st secretary of state

-limited federal government powers

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James Madison

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Father of Federals

  • 4th presidents
  • war of 1812
  • key part in constitution and bill of rights
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Alexander Hamilton

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Secretary of the treasure

  • supported national bank
  • state debt = national debt
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French revolution 1789

Proclamation of neutrality 1793

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  • very violent

- us remained neutral

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Jays treaty 1795

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British must leave us soil

- must pay for seizure damages

44
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Xyz affair

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  • 3 delegates sent to figure out French ship seizures

- bribed us officials

45
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Washington’s farewell address

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Stay away for permanent alliances
Maintain commercial ties
No political patrons

46
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Federalist Party

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Strong governments
Loose interpretation of the constitution
HAMILTON

47
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Democratic-Rebublican Party

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Thomas Jefferson

  • strong constitutional interpretation
  • power of the people
  • limited federal government
48
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Hamiltons financial plans

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  • fed assume all debt
  • national bank
  • -80% private owned 20% government
49
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First is bank 1791

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20 yrs

50
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Whiskey rebellion 1794

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Farmers rebelled

  • corn-whiskey
  • refused to pay
  • put down
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Alien and sedition acts 1798

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Illegal to publish anti government stuff

  • 5-14 yrs to become citizen
  • arrest and deportation IS a presidential power
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Virginia and Kentucky resolutions 1798

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VA- nullify alien and sedition

KN- state has more power then federal gov!!!!

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Pennsylvania gradual emancipation laws 1780

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  • must register slaves
  • everyone born = free
  • can keep current slaves
54
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Battle of fallen timber s1794

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Us defeated native at the Ohio river area

55
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Trendy of Greenville 1795

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12 robes gave us the Ohio valley for reservation and $10,000

56
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Republican motherhood

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  • devoted to family

- special keeper of the nations conscience

57
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Northwest ordinances

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Developed the processes of how to become a state

-slaver: choice by vote

58
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Pickens treaty 1795

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Spain: gave US rights to use Mississippi River

- new border- 31st parallel

59
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Scots-Irish

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Presbyterian

-moved to America to escape poor conditions and persecution

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