Unit 2: Important Events

Question 1

Boston Tea Party

Answer 1

Sons of Liberty, very patriot and threw the tea into the ocean. Prompted by increase in taxes from British. Followed by intolerable acts, had to pay back expenses (Closed to East India Trade Co.) Stripped MA Government.

Question 2

Sugar Act

Answer 2

First direct tax on colonies to raise revenue in Britain. Boston Boycotts, stopped buying from British.

Question 3

Quartering Act

Answer 3

Included in Intolerable acts following the Boston Tea Party where British soldiers would stay in homes of Boston Citizens and they had to feed and house them without choice.

Question 4

Boston Massacre

Answer 4

British Soldiers station to support and project Parliament officials and legislature. Civilians caused conflict and 5 died, six injured.

Question 5

Intolerable Acts

Answer 5

Impose marital law on Boston until tea from Boston Tea Party has been paid for, port closed, bring troops in form of the quartering act.

Question 6

Quebec Act

Answer 6

1774 Parliament set procedures of governance in Quebec. Extended territory, Practice of Catholic Church and tithes. what is now southern Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota.

Question 7

Common Sense

Answer 7

Thomas Paine, written document for common people to unify the nation with a common opinion. Monarchy bad, liberty and equality for mankind, we should be independent from Britain and introduce our own trade system.

Question 8

Townshend Acts

Answer 8

Taxes imposed by Parliament that were created to pay for government officials and distributed across the colonies for a smaller impact. Boycotts, petitions, newspaper attacks. Were repealed giving colonists confidence.

Question 9

Declaratory Act

Answer 9

Accompany the repeal of the stamp act. Give Parliament authority to make laws in America.

Question 10

1st Continental Congress

Answer 10

1774 delegates from 12 colonies met in reaction to the Intolerable acts, briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances.

Question 11

2nd Continental Congress

Answer 11

After the whole revolution thing was decided, Goerasdg Washington was elected the leader of the continental army. The next year they also were the ones that passed the Declaration of Independence, and talked about how to fund the war and stuff. Cool people things

Question 12

Stamp Act Congress

Answer 12

1765 First gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation. Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for virtually all business in the colonies.

Question 13

Decleration of Independence

Answer 13

A list of grievances toward King George, and what he did to the colonies, declaring themselves as a separate entity and an official country separate from Britain.

Question 14

Articles of Confederation

Answer 14

An agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid-1776, and an approved version was sent in 1777.

Question 15

Articles of Confederation

Answer 15

An agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution. Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid-1776, and an approved version was sent in 1777.

Question 16

Land Ordinance of 1785

Answer 16

Hamilton’s plan to make money, dough, stacks on deck, bring the bread home, ya know, that stuff, he sold the land West because it was the only thing in the colonies that had actual value, surveyed a large percentage of it, every 1/30 square miles was sold to pay for education, and yeah, money.

Question 17

Northwest Ordinance

Answer 17

Creation of the Northwest Territory, the first organized territory of the United States, from lands south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed the ordinance.

Question 18

Shay’s Rebellion

Answer 18

An armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. Prompted by financial difficulties of the depressed economy and lack of standard currency. Shut down county courts in the later months of 1786 to stop the judicial hearings for tax and debt collection.

Question 19

3/5’s compromise

Answer 19

A compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787. Three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for representation purposes of taxes and the numbers of members of the United States House of Representatives.

Question 20

New Jersey/Virginia Plans

Answer 20

New Jersey plan was the Senate, the Virginia plan was the House of Rep. It was the different ways to vote.

Question 21

Great Compromise

Answer 21

Constitutional Convention of 1787 there was a compromise made concerning the state participation in government. The conclusion was that each state would have two representatives in the upper house.

Question 22

Constitution of the US

Answer 22

A document written to outline the rules and expectations of the United states for defense, welfare, and liberty. Definition of how the government is run and its purpose and responsibilities. 1787 ratified.

Question 23

Bill of Rights

Answer 23

The basic rights, complained about by the Anti-Federalists that they didn’t exist, and included guarantees for basic rights that people should hold in respect to their freedoms. Includes free speech, right to remain silent, and military people not being in your house. Yeah. That stuff.

Question 24

Whiskey Rebellion

Answer 24

Bunch of people who made Whiskey in Pennsylvania were angry with the tax, so they staged a rebellion. Federalists wanted nothing of this, and Washington and a 15000 person army went to stop the rebellion, which when they reached there, was a loony and a simpleton, so they were pardoned and lost a lot of votes for Federalists.

Question 25

Jay Treaty

Answer 25

John Jay was sent to make a treaty with Britain to remove forts, pay for ships that were taken in West Indies, improved commercial relations, accept Amer. neutral rights. Compromise w/British, pay for pre-revolutionary dept, not mention the slaves they took from south. Angered the capital and treaty rights taken from senate

Question 26

Farewell Address

Answer 26

George Washington, talked about how political parties were bad, how we need to be one happy family, and how he was so done with politics.

Question 27

Pinckney Treaty

Answer 27

Thomas Pinckney went to Spain. He was in Madrid, and then he talked to some people. He organized a deal with them in favor of America, we got access to the river thing (Mississippi) and most of the land south of us.

Question 28

Judiciary Act of 1789

Answer 28

Was the act that defined what the responsibilities of the supreme court, saying they could settle disputes between states, number of people in the supreme court, and the number of lower courts, also how their opinion is the final one.

Question 29

Treaty of Greenville

Answer 29

Treaty between America and the Indians, Natives gave up land, but were allowed to hunt and move in the area, without all the bad “war” stuff.

Question 30

Neutrality Proclaimation

Answer 30

George Washington nullifying our agreement with France, saying we owed nothing to kill Britain again, so we decided we weren’t gonna get involved. That was the premise.

Question 31

Battle of Fallen Timbers

Answer 31

the battle was between a large confederacy of natives and the US over the northwest territory. it was a decisive victory that ended major hostilities in the area for a long time.

Question 32

Quasi-War

Answer 32

A “sort-of” war, that consisted of a lot of ships being taken by the French, because they were angry at them, which then lead to a lot of tension between the two, and had a lot to do with people being taken in the name of the king.

Question 33

Convention of 1800

Answer 33

Treaty of Mortefontaine Frances agreement to compensate for lost ships during the Quasi War, officially end the alliance between France and America, made neutral waters, and overall calmed tensions between the two countries.

Question 34

XYZ Affair

Answer 34

The French where angry with the US about the Jay treaty between them and the British, so they where acting all pissy and stealing ships. US diplomats visited France, but the french wanted a bribe in order to start negotiations, and US was like “fuck that” and left. this spawned the America quote,”millions for defense but not a penny in tribute”

Question 35

Alien and Sedition Acts

Answer 35

Laws that allowed the government to deny foreigners and things that slandered the government, were very unconstitutional, and were only there to further the Federalists. Were inevitably stopped, and were acts that showed the constant struggle between the two parties.

Question 36

Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions

Answer 36

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson made things that said how what was set out in the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional, and that the states as being part of an agreement, could leave America as part of that agreement if something was unconstitutional.