APUSH Unit 3

(1744-1818) The 2nd first lady. We have learned about the fight for independence from her letters that she wrote to John Adams.

Opponents of the 1787 Constitution

(1781) First American constitution that established the United States as a loose confederation of states under a weak national Congress

(1791) Popular term for the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. The amendments secure key rights for individuals and reserve to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the Constitution.

(July 4

1790s

(1796) Address at the end of his presidency

A constitutional arrangement whereby power is divided between national and sub national governments

Proponents of the 1787 Constitution

(1754-1763) Nine-year war between the British and the French in North America. It resulted in the expulsion of the French from the North American mainland and helped spark the Seven Years' War in Europe.

(1774) Series of punitive measurements passed in retaliation for the Boston Tea Party

(1794) Negotiated by Chief Justice John Jay in an effort to avoid war with Britain

(1798-1799) Statements secretly drafted by Jefferson and Madison for the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia. Argued that states were the final arbiters of whether the federal government overstepped its boundaries and could therefore nullify

American colonists who opposed the Revolution and maintained their loyalty to the King; sometimes referred to as "Tories."

Created a policy for administering the Northwest Territories. It included a path to statehood and forbade the expansion of slavery into the territories.

(1763) Bloody campaign waged by Ottawa chief Pontiac to drive the British out of Ohio Country. It was brutally crushed by British troops

Decree issued by Parliament in the wake of Pontiac's uprising

Political theory of representative government

Ideal of family organization and female behavior after the American Revolution that stressed the role of women in guiding family members toward republican virtue.

A feature of the Constitution that requires each of the three branches of government executive

(1786) Armed uprising of western Massachusetts debtors seeking lower taxes and an end to property foreclosures. Though quickly put down

Patriotic group that played a central role in agitating against the Stamp Act and enforcing non-importation agreements.

(1765) Widely unpopular tax on an array of paper goods

The document written in 1787 and ratified in 1788 that sets forth the institutional structure of the U.S. government and the tasks these institutions perform. It replaced the Articles of Confederation.

refers to an unofficial and long term 17th & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of taxes on the colonialists

Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1754 that aimed to unite the 13 colonies for trade

Printer

The Prime Minister of England during the French and Indian War. He increased the British troops and military supplies in the colonies

Was the King of England who disbanded the colonial legislatures

(1764) British deeply in debt because of the French & Indian War. English Parliament placed a tariff on sugar

A leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799) - wrote the Virginia Resolves

In response to the 1765 Stamp Act

A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies

Act passed in 1766 after the repeal of the stamp act; stated that Parliament had authority over the the colonies and the right to tax and pass legislation "in all cases whatsoever."

This Revenue Act of 1767 taxed glass

The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770)

American Revolutionary leader and patriot

British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects

In order to be taxed by Parliament

In June

1773 act which eliminated import tariffs on tea entering England and allowed the British East India Company to have a monopoly on tea imports. Led to the Boston Tea Party.

This organization supported the boycott of British goods. They urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce other goods that were previously available only from Britain. They believed that way

A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as natives dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor.

This congress convened on September 5

April 8

Convened in May 1775

Drafted a declaration of colonial rights and grievances

On July 8

American Revolutionary leader and pamphleteer (born in England) who supported the American colonist's fight for independence and supported the French Revolution (1737-1809) wrote "Common Sense"

He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States.

First major battle of the Revolutions. It showed that the Americans could hold their own

Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support. It lifted American spirits

American colonists who fought for independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War

Last major battle of the Revolutionary War. Cornwallis and his troops were trapped in the Chesapeake Bay by the French fleet. He was sandwiched between the French navy and the American army. He surrendered October 19

This treaty ended the Revolutionary War

type of cloth manufactured in the home using a loom and spinning wheel; created and worn in the colonies as part of the boycott of British goods

Term used by historians to describe the United States under the Articles of Confederation. 1783-1789

1789-1795; First Secretary of the Treasury. He advocated creation of a national bank

Beginning on May 25

"Father of the Constitution

"Large state" proposal for the new constitution

New Jersey delegate William Paterson's plan of government

1787; This compromise was between the large and small states of the colonies. It resolved that there would be representation by population in the House of Representatives

This collection of essays by John Jay

This was the first of three major reports on economic policy issued by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton on the request of Congress. The report analyzed the financial standing of the United States. Hamilton proposed a remarkable set of policies for handling the debt problem. All debts were to be paid at face value. The Federal government would assume all of the debts owed by the states

(1791) Part of Hamilton's economic plan that provided a safe storage for government funds

In 1794

A 1793 statement by President Washington that the United States would not support or aid either France or Britain in their European conflict following the French Revolution

He was the second president of the United States and a Federalist. He was responsible for passing the Alien and Sedition Acts. Prevented all out war with France after the XYZ Affair. His passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts severely hurt the popularity of the Federalist party and himself

1798 - A commission had been sent to France in 1797 to discuss the disputes that had arisen out of the U.S.'s refusal to honor the Franco-American Treaty of 1778. President Adams had also criticized the French Revolution

Undeclared war fought entirely at sea between the United States and France from 1798 to 1800. The French began to seize American ships trading with their British enemies and refused to receive a new United States minister when he arrived in Paris in December 1796.

Were passed by the Federalist congress in 1798 and signed into law by the president adams . the laws included new powers to deport foreigners as well as making it harder for new immigrants to vote

The doctrine that a state can declare null and void a federal law that

One of the leading Democratic-Republicans of New york

Brought about by the Jefferson/Burr tie

Jefferson's view of his election to presidency. Jefferson claimed that the election of 1800 represented a return to what he considered the original spirit of the Revolution. Jefferson's goals for his revolution were to restore the republican experiment