US HISTORY TERMS 2
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- Whiskey Rebellion
- tax on wiskey = PA uprising but supressed by GW
- Battle of Yorktown
- Ended revolution as cornwallis surrenders
- bill of rights
- added to constitution because FEDS fearede central gv had too much control & people didnt have personal freedoms
- Thomas Paine & Common Sense
- pamphlet helped change war out look; anger towards english const. which let king govern poorly;argued americans should break away from this form of government
- Actual Representation
- belief that each community was entitled to represenatives in the actual parliment and were elected by people
- Virtual Representation
- didnt deserve actual person but thoughts kept in mind
- representation battle
- diffrence in opinion of ovr representatiion between englsih and colonies. english wanted ultimante authority.
- powers of articles of confederation
- power to conduct wars and foreign relations and borrw / issue $$$ . troops and taxes --> formal request
- women in colonies
- small,homelife,male centered homes
- great awakening
- 1730s-40s- appealed to women and idea to break away from past constraints and start new reloationship w. god starting NEW LIFE
- monroe doctrine
- 1823- delcared foreign challange to sovreinity of existing US nations would be UNFRIENDLY act
- War Hawks & before war in 1812
- represenatives from both parties who wanted to fight with britain
- may flower compact
- document had 41 saints sign it saying it established civil government loyoal to the king in plymouth
- Great compromise
- met and resolved difficult conflicts of representation with slaves counting as 3/4 a person. also said upper house each state will get 2 reps. also that congress would be forbidden to impose more than $10 a head on imported slaves
- shays rebellion
- 1786 year before constitution created. people in mass taxed a huge amouint by state goov in order to pay off debt. convinced america that they needed better gov
- federalist papers
- series of essays publuished in newspapers that supported creation of constitution. franklin & washington supported
- boston tea party
- dressed up as indians in 1773 and dumped all the tea on englsih ships into bay bc they closed the port of boston
- effects of french indian war
- us gained territory and left england in debt and when they taxed us to helop pay some of it caused revo
- tobacco
- huge crop in jamestown
- war of 1812: CAUSES :
- british and french attacking US ships- chesapeak leopard indicdent- indians & british- purchase of FL
- Bank of USA
- hamilton plan to issue bonds!
- missouri compromise
- allowing main to be admitted to IS as slave state and MI was free state an prohibited slavery in LOU. purchase
- impact of American REVO on WOMEN and AFRICAN SLAVES
- spread iideas of equality and slave freedoms
- stamp act
- colonist boycott riots mobs opposed taxes and considered act imposing their rights
- election 1824
- john quicncy adams versus jackson. Jackson had more votes but JQA won and was set up ..corrupt bargain
- northwest oridance
- organized territories , grids, land divided up in sqs, outlaw of slaves
- hamiltons plan
- wanted to rid of countries debt by creating bonds and national nank = more debt = wanted commecerical country. independant commercial econ
- loyalists
- british supporters
- 3/4 compromise
- amount slaves = as they determiuned population / taxation per state
- alien act
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federalists set up
placed obsiticales in way of foreigners - sedition act
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federalist setyp
allowed gov to prosecute tho9se who engaged in government treason - british acts ----> american revolution
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taxing colonists
glass;paint;liquor;stanps - xyz affiar
- americans sent commision to france but french wanted $$ americans became offended and peaced out
- feds versus anti feds
- feds su7pported constitution and anti believe that it was going to make another "england " like country
- Origins of Slaves in NAmerica
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1. indians too weak or ram away
2. laborers needed for labor intensives like tobacco rice indigo
3. racism bc whites couldnt enslave eachother - puritans-
- purify english church by reforming it , moved to US to create perfect church society
- salutary neglect
- massachusetts - english didnt enforce strict law or regulations towards the colonies before french indian war
- revolution of 1800
- shift of power to republicans
- jamestown
- looking for gold , didnt find it , tobacco kept JTN alive
- salem witch trials
- occred in mass - beginings of social trends killed witches etc
- french indian war
- war between the french and eng. english won and gained territorty causing eng in debt so they taxed colonists
- jueffersons dilemma overLA purchase
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const didnt talk about purchasing land
morals - embargo
- british and french attaking US so embargo stopped american ships from entering foreign port
- marbury versus madison
- right before adams left office as preseident apptd marbury as judge and papers didnt go thru bc maddison left and didnt deliver them. said he had right to commision and Supreme court agreed with him but they had no power to make madison give them
- hartford convention
- federalists wanted to add 7 amenments to constitution to protect new england from growing influence from S and Wst. however news of countries success in New Orleans was heard their ideas were obslete
- proclomation 1763
- law said colonists could NOT move west pst app mtns due to natives conflcition
- ethnioc groups
- english german scots irish dutch albany africans
- VA & KY rebellions
- republicans created & started law saying states had rights to nullify acts of congress , response to alien and sedition acts
- LA purchase
- doubled size of USA,land purchase = not in constitution
- effects of 1812 war
- repub ideas changed , federalist pary died, people feelin good, gain of FL
- treaty of ghent
- end war 1812 treaty said we had to restore native lands in america but it didnt happen
- lex & concord
- started revo
- state const during revo elimination of gov
- reduced power inh fear of centralized gov