Unit 2 Vocab Flashcards
1754 New York 7 out of 13 colonies No Union Happened because Iroquois something
Albany congress
Ended 7 years war
Treaty of Paris 1763
Ended the american Revolution
Treaty of Paris 1783
- fought in Great Lakes
- surrender , got blankets infected with small pox
Pantiac’s rebellion
- trade restrictions
- made for economy
- trade within Great Britain
Mercantilism
Aka 7 years war
1754-63
Britain v France
Started in North America -> Caribbean & Europe
French & Indian war
Boston tea party
Anti-British
Sons of Liberty
Boycott the British
Made stuff themselves
Daughters of Liberty
Loyal nine
A mob in Boston that wanted to protest the stamp act
1st man to be killed in Boston massacre African American (ironic)
Crispus Attucks
- political propaganda
- make a bigger deal than what it was
- Samuel Adams
- communication between patriot leaders in New England and the colonies
Committees of correspondence
Farmers become militiamen and transform in 60 seconds
Minutemen
German soldiers hired by King George III (king of Britain) to harass his own people
Hessians
- 1774
- boycott the British
1st continental congress
- 1775
- olive ranch petition
- continental army
2nd continental congress
A French get all who went back to France and took american ideas to the French Revolution
Marquis de Lafayette
Prussian general who helped train army under George Washington
Von Steuben
A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that tried to persuade independence
Common sense
The first government official who wanted to get independence and tried
Richard Henry Lee
“Give me liberty or give me death”
Patrick Henry
People who wanted to gain independence vs the ones who wanted to remain loyal to Britain
Patriots vs Loyalist (Whigs vs Tories)
- started 1607 ended 1763
- British government allowed colonies to do as they wish = perfect relationship ends because Britain needed money so they asked for faces and then :(
Salutary neglect
Private individuals that offered their ships
Privateers
“I have not yet began to fight”
- father of american navy
John Paul Jones
Thomas Jefferson
-no official religion
Virginia statue for religious freedom
The nations first constitution
1777-1781-1789
Articles of confederation
Had a lot of land so they gave it to the government and government sells it & saves some for public education
Land ordinance of 1785
- forbids slavery in north west territories
- provides a system for a territory to become a state one they have more then 60000 people
- respect “Indian” treaties
Northwest ordinance of 1787
- 1786
- western Massachusetts
- farmers vs local government
- because of taxes
Shay’s rebellion
Alexander Hamilton realizes country isn’t working calls for meeting in 1786
Annapolis
Annapolis didn’t work out meeting a year later where they revise the articles on the articles of confederation
Philadelphia convention
Where they get the House of Representatives for every state depending on population (Virginia plan) and that every state gets the same amount of senate (New Jersey plan)
The great compromise
Problem with counting the slaves as people so then only 3/5th of the slaves count as population
Three-fifths compromise
Virginia and New York didn’t want to be in favor of the constituency so then Jay Hamilton and Madison worked with these essays
Federalist papers
