Period 3 1754-1800 Flashcards
The enlightenment (age of reason)
Reason and rationality
French and Indian war 1754-1763 (7 years war 56-63)
French + Natives vs British Colonists and Iroquois
- Brits won
- got Florida from Spain
- gave Spain Louisiana
French and Indian war results
French give up all north American land
-British expand into native land
Pontiac’s rebellion 1763
After french and Indian war
- began to destroy british forts
- pontiac was killed
Proclamation line 1763
No settlements West of the Appellations
The Paxton Boysm1764
Scots- Irish
-killed 20 Indians
Sugar act 1764
- import tax on sugar, coffee, other
- major price rise
- -boycotted British goods, tarr and feathered tax collectors
“no taxation without representation” -James Otis
Stamp act 1765
Tax on all things printed!!!!!!!!!!!
–riots
Sons of liberty
By Sam Adams
- riots, demanded not stamp act
- boycotted English goods
Declaratory act 1766
Repeals the stamp act
–parliament- has the right to to make laws without colonial consent
Townshend Act 1767
- tax on: glass, tea, paper
- search homes for smuggled goods
John Dickinson Letters for a Pennsylvania Farmer, 1767
Protested British “rights” to raise taxes.
Boston massacre 1770
Protest against British customs agents
- violence
- 5 colonists killed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Boston tea party 1773
To protest tea act
-don’t let it get to shore
First continental congress 1774
Protested the “intolerable acts”
- boycotted British imports
- petitioned the king for changes
- -against unfair judicial system and taxes
Battle of Lexington and concord 1775
1st shots fired
-Brits retreat
Second continental congress 1775
Opposed independence
- negotiations
- repeat the coercive acts
- —rejected by the king
John Lock
“social contact”
- life, liberty, and property are RIGHTS
- by the people for the people
Republican form of government
Representative government
- popular sovereignty
- liberty is a civic virtue
Tomas Paine, common seance 1776
Rise up against British
- new gov based on enlightenment
- no larger body should be ruled by a smaller one
Declaration of independence 1776
Start war!!!!!
Adam smith
Father of modern economics
- attacked mercantilism
- free trade-
Battle of Saratoga 1777
Us surrounds Brits
- Brits surrender
- French join war on us side
Treat of alliance 1778
Us and French alliance in war
Battle ow Yorktown 1781
Cornwallis (Brit) surrenders
Treaty of Paris 1783
USA independent!!!!!!!!!!
- all north American territory from Atlantic to Mississippi and Canada to Florida
- fishing right on Newfoundland
Iroquois confederation
7 yr war Indian alliance
- power in Great Lakes region
Chief little turtle
Miamis leader
-killed 100s/ of USA citizens
Articles of Confederationn1781-1789
1st us constitution
Shays rebellion 1786-1787
Farmers rebellion against articles of confederation
- “unfair” tax
- 12,000 men rebelled
- weakens aoc
Constitutional convention 1787
Drafted the constitution
-greater central government
Great compromise
Representation per state (senate) Population size (house)
Federalist papers 1787-1788
By John Jay, Madison, Hamilton
-supported a federal constitution
Judiciary act 1789
Created federal court system
-and local (state) courts
Bill of Rights 1791
1st 10 amendments
-civil rights
George Washington
Civil war leader
-first president
Ben Franklin
American dream
- ambassador to France
- influenced the constitution
John Adams
Federalist (big gov)
- second us president
- alien and sedition acts
Thomas Jefferson
1st secretary of state
-limited federal government powers
James Madison
Father of Federals
- 4th presidents
- war of 1812
- key part in constitution and bill of rights
Alexander Hamilton
Secretary of the treasure
- supported national bank
- state debt = national debt
French revolution 1789
Proclamation of neutrality 1793
- very violent
- us remained neutral
Jays treaty 1795
British must leave us soil
- must pay for seizure damages
Xyz affair
- 3 delegates sent to figure out French ship seizures
- bribed us officials
Washington’s farewell address
Stay away for permanent alliances
Maintain commercial ties
No political patrons
Federalist Party
Strong governments
Loose interpretation of the constitution
HAMILTON
Democratic-Rebublican Party
Thomas Jefferson
- strong constitutional interpretation
- power of the people
- limited federal government
Hamiltons financial plans
- fed assume all debt
- national bank
- -80% private owned 20% government
First is bank 1791
20 yrs
Whiskey rebellion 1794
Farmers rebelled
- corn-whiskey
- refused to pay
- put down
Alien and sedition acts 1798
Illegal to publish anti government stuff
- 5-14 yrs to become citizen
- arrest and deportation IS a presidential power
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions 1798
VA- nullify alien and sedition
KN- state has more power then federal gov!!!!
Pennsylvania gradual emancipation laws 1780
- must register slaves
- everyone born = free
- can keep current slaves
Battle of fallen timber s1794
Us defeated native at the Ohio river area
Trendy of Greenville 1795
12 robes gave us the Ohio valley for reservation and $10,000
Republican motherhood
- devoted to family
- special keeper of the nations conscience
Northwest ordinances
Developed the processes of how to become a state
-slaver: choice by vote
Pickens treaty 1795
Spain: gave US rights to use Mississippi River
- new border- 31st parallel
Scots-Irish
Presbyterian
-moved to America to escape poor conditions and persecution
