Period 3 Flashcards
Pontiac rebellion
French and Indian War Chief Pontiac gathered up Native American groups and captured British posts, primitive use of biological warfare on blankets, weakened Indian alliance and British won
Proclamation of 1763
was created to alleviate relations with natives after the French and Indian War and started that Americans were not permitted to passed the Appalachian Mountains
Chief little turtle and the western confederacy
AKA the Miami Confederacy; led by this able warchief; defeated Generals Josiah Harmar and Arthur St. Claire; defeated in the Battle of Fallen Timbers by “Mad” Anthony Wayne
Committees of correspondence
Samuel Adams started the first committee in Boston in 1772 to spread propaganda and secret information by way of letters. They were used to sustain opposition to British policy. The committees were extremely effective
Stamp act
Act placed on colonists to pay for war debts; forced colonists to pay for stamps of legal/official documents
Intolerable acts
Parliament punished the people of Massachusetts for their actions in the Boston Tea Party. made restrictions on town meetings, and stated that enforcing officials who killed colonists in the line of duty would be sent to Britain for trial
Sons of liberty
A radical political organization for colonial independence which formed in 1765 after the passage of the Stamp Act. They incited riots and burned the customs houses where the stamped British paper was kept. (Sam Adams, Paul revere)
Mercy Otis Warren
head of patriot women during the revolution; produced many writings questioning the declining republican values in post-revolutionary Americ
Kentucky and Virginia resolutions
Used to combat the alien and sedition acts passed by congresses federalist majority. Nullified these laws
Hamiltons financial plan
Alexander Hamilton to stabilized the American economy. It consitsted of federal assumption of all debts, includign state and federal debts. Along with this, he proposed the chartering of the U.S. bank to help restore American credit.
Proclamation of neutrality
A formal announcement issued by President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the United States a neutral nation in the conflict between Great Britain and France.
Abigail Adams
Wife and most significant advisor to John Adams. Discussed all presidential matters with him.
Pennsylvania gradual emancipation law
A law passed in Pennsylvania in 1780 declaring that slaveholders would register their slaves every year and that every person born, regardless of race or the conditions of their parents, was free. It did however permit slaveholders to keep the present slaves for the rest of their life, and it became a model for future emancipation laws in most of the Northern states.
March of the Paxton boys
Philadelphia in 1764, protesting Quaker tolerance of Indians; the Scots-Irish had a large role in this group
Battle of fallen timbers
attack made by American General “Mad Anthony Wayne” against invading Indians from the northwest. The defeat of the Indians ended the alliance
Shays rebellion
1786 and 1787. Revolutionary War veteran Daniel Shays led four thousand rebels (called Shaysites) in an uprising against perceived economic and civil rights injustices
Jays treaty
a treaty which offered little concessions from Britain to the U.S. and greatly disturbed the Jeffersonians.was able to get Britain to say they would evacuate the chain of posts on U.S. soil and pay damages for recent seizures of American ships. The British, however, would not promise to leave American ships alone in the future,
French and Indian war
1754, started in the Ohio Valley, where the French had been fortifying to deter the British from settling further west, Fort Duquesne: made the British realize the war would not be easily won
