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Unit 2 Test Flashcards

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Stamp act

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Law passed by Parliament in 1765 to raise money in America by requiring taxed stamped paper.

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Sugar act

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Law passed in 1764 to raise money for America which lowered the cost of molasses from six pence to three pence

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Proclamation of 1763

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Set the boundary of the proclamation line that limited British settlements to the east of the appalachians.

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Coercive acts

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included the Boston port act, the Massachusetts government act, the administration of justice act, and the quartering act

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Quartering acts

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Required colonial legislatures to provide supplies and quarters for troops in America

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Declaratory act

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Accompanied the stamp act; parliament had the authority to legislate the colonies

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Townshend acts act of 1767

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Imposed duties on colonial tea, lead, paint, paper, glass

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Tea act of 1773

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Let east India company sell through agents in America without paying the duty collected in Britain. Reduced retail price.

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Minute men

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Special companies of militia formed in MA and elsewhere in late 1774

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Declaration of independence

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Second continental congress announced the decision to renounce colonies allegiance to the British

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Continental army

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Regular or professional army commanded by George Washington

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Olive branch petition

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Last effort for peace that vowed americas to George III and requested his protection

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Declaration of the causes and necessity of taking up arms

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Americans were ready to fight for freedom and liberty

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Bill of rights

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A written summary of rights and liberties

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Natural rights

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rights in nature, government, and to life and liberty

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Nationalists

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Wanted to replace the confederation with something stronger

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Shay’s rebellion

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1786-87 shut down courts and created crisis. Drove by debt ridden farmers.

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Land ordinance of 1785

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Created the grid system of surveys which all public land was for sale.

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Northwest ordinance of 1787

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Prohibited slavery in northwest

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Southwest ordinance of 1790

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Set up a government that didn’t prohibit slavery south of the Ohio River.

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Judiciary act of 1789

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Implemented the judiciary cause

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Tariff act of 1789

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First Nation tartars to raise revenue

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Federalist

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Supporter of the constitution who favored its ratification

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Republican

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Headed by thomas Jefferson; financial problems w/ federalists. Wanted limited power of nation government and placing interests in farmers

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Alien and sedition acts

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Four acts passed by congress that gave freedom of speech and liberty to foreigners in the US

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Quebec act

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Law that appointed government for Canada

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Intolerable acts

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Coercive and Quebec acts

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Republicanism

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Governments must use power, but note that the power could overwhelm liberty

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Sovereignty

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Right to take life (executions) and tax

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Whigs

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Name for advocates of colonial resistance to the British

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Tories

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The name for loyalists in America supporting the king and parliament before the revolution

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Declaration of rights and grievances

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The stamp act and other taxes without consent were unconstitutional

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Second continental congress

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Called for the patchwork of local forces to be organized into the continental army, formed navy, post office, printed dollar

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Peace of Paris

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Treaty that ended the revolutionary war

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Contract theory of government

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Belief that government is made by humans to protect rights

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Valley forge

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In Pennsylvania; 20 mi northwest of the quartering of George Washington’s troop quartering

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Linda Brent

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Harriet jacobs

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Aunt Martha

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Molly horniblow

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Dr flint

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Dr. James norcom

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States rights

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Rights of individual states

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Nullification

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A state can say a national law is null within its borders

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XYZ affair

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Americans were mad by demand of the French for a bribe

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Jays treaty

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The US made major concessions to avery a war over British taking of American ships

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Whiskey rebellion

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Uprising by farmers in Pennsylvania to prevent tax on whiskey

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1st amendment

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Freedoms, petitions, assembly

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2nd amendment

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Right to bear arms

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3rd amendment

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Quartering of soldiers

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4th amendment

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Search and arrest

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5th amendment

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Right to not self incriminate

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Federalism

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Sharing of powers between national gov. and the states

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Federalist

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Supporter of the constitution

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Anti federalist

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Opponent of the constitution

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Judicial review

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Gives federal courts the right to review acts

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Great compromise

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Bicameral legislature which all states are equally represented

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Virginia plan

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States should be represented by population

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New Jersey plan

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All states would have equal representation

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