Unit 3: 1754 - 1800 Flashcards
Describe the Role of Women during this time period
They had a role in the revolutionary war by resisting Britsh taxes by making their own goods, like tea and textiles. (Daughters of Liberty)
Camp followers helped provide nursing to the army, as well as performing daily tasks.
However, they were afforded very little actual political rights. The prevalent idea of the time, republican motherhood, stated that women were responsible for the early education of the boys who would someday become voting citizens.
What was the first plan for a centralized system in the colonies?
The Albany Plan of Union was the first plan of centralization. it was brought foraward by Benjamin Franklin during the French and Indian War to better fight the French. It was not passed
What were the results of the French and Indian war?
Despite early French victories, the British won the war and almost doubles their land ownings in North America with the treaty of Paris.
Describe the general Colonial Greivances that led to the American Revolution (chronologically)
- The Proclamation of 1763: The American Colonists were angered at the British restriction on Westward Expansion since they felt they had shed their blood to gain that land. The British did not want another war and wanted favorable trading relations.
- Taxation without Representation: Britain’s debt greatly increased after the 7 years war, leading to the end of the period of salutory neglect. They started to enforce the already existing Navigation Acts, whcih restricted colonial trade to only Britain
- Quartering Act: Imperial troops would stay with the colonists at their expense, even after the war
Describe the series of acts and exchanges between the British and the Colonists leading up to the revolutionary war
- Proclmation of 1763
- Sugar Act: Imposed taxes on luxury iterms like coffee and wine
- Stamp Act: All printed documents would be taxed
- The Stamp Act Congress is formed and petitioned the British to repeal the Stamo act
- The British listen and repeal the Stamp and Sugar Act. They pass the Declaratory Act to say they could pass any law they wish on the colonists
- Townshend Acts: Created taxes on products imported into the US like paper, glass, and tea
- The Colonists, such as the Sons and Daughters of liberty boycott these goods and intimidate tax collectors
- The Boston Massacare occours, which galvanize resistance to the British
- The Boston Tea Party dumps dea into the harbour to protest the Tea Act
- The Intolerable acts significantly restrict masschusetts. They closed its government, made the city under martial law, and closed the Boston port.
Identify how the British claimed the colonists were represented in Parliament
- The Idea of Virtual Repsentation stated that all classes of society were represented in Parliament, so all locations need not be represented
What were the guiding principles of the Revolution?
- Enlightenment ideas were the guiding ideas
- These include: natrual rights, the social contract, seperation of powers, checks and balances
Name a publication that made the idea of independence widespread. What kinds of ideas did it contain?
Common sense convinced the majority of colonists that independence was the only option. It contained a lot of enlightenment ideas.
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? What kinds of ideas did it contain?
- Thomas Jefferson
- Enlightenment thought
What were the major battles of the Revolutionary War?
- Lexington and Concord: Starting battle of the war
- Battle of Saratoga: Turning point of the war where the Patriots won, which convinced the French to ally with Patriots.
- Battle of Yorktown: The British surrender and the war ends
What were the pitfalls of the Articles of Confederation?
- Central government could not enforce laws
- Federal gov couldnt collect taxes ro raise an army
How did the new government deal with the growing problems with westward expansion.
- The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established a process for admitting new states into the union and abolished slavery in the Northwest territory
Name ONE rebellion to the American governement that changed the govenrment after the Revolutionary war and its causes and effects
- Shay’s rebellion was caused by farmers being unable to pay the taxes imposed upon them.
- It was abled to be crushed easily, but it demonstrated the weakness of the federal government
What were the two plans to determine representation in the new government and what was the final outcome? (What was the name of this final outcome)
- Virginia Plan: Representation based population
- New Jeresey Plan: Representation based on statehood
- The Congress adopted a bicameral legislature with both being used under the great comprimise
How did the new government resolve the issue of representation in the South?
- 3/5 Comprimise gave representation in the house equal to white population plus 3/5 of the black population
