Period 3: 1754-1800 Flashcards
(30 cards)
Colonial Rivalry between Britain & France
WAG wars, French + Indan war, Washington leads militia, the Albany Congress, Treaty of Paris 1763
Consequences of Britain beating France
Treaty of Paris 1763, Britain gets land, needs to tax colonies
British stop colonists westward
Pontiac’s Rebellion, Proclimation of 1763
Taxation Without Representation
Patrick Henry, Stamp Act Protest, Stamp Act Repeal
Colonial Leaders’ ideas of self-rule
Stamp Act Congress, Continental Congress, The Enlightenment
American Independence Energized
Ben Franklin’s “Join or Die”, Townshend Duties, Boston Massacre, Committees of Correspondance, Townshend Tea Act, Sons of Liberty, Daughters of Liberty
Help to support Patriot movement
Aid to Boston after Tea Party and Coersive (intolerable) Acts, Quebec Act
America won the War
Washington’s leadership, devotion to the cause, Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Ft. Ticonderoga, Saratoga, Yorktown, British vs American strengths and weaknesses, Second Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition, Attack on Canada, Loyalists, Roles of Black Americans and Women, Main ally; France, Treaty of Paris: 1783
Enlightenment Ideals and Philosophy
Locke (natural rights), Rousseau (social contract), Adam Smith (free market), Montisqieu (separation of powers), Republicanism, Whig ideas (down with monarchy)
Documents about why we left Britain
Thomas Paine’s Common sense, The Declaration of Independance
Pollitical Democracy, Abolition of Slavery
“remember the ladies”, Republican motherhod, Quakers outlaw slavery, no voting tho
Republican Motherhood
Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies”
Reverberations in Other Countries
French Revolution, Toussaint louverture in Haiti
Legislative Branch
States had a bill of rights
Articles of Confederation Problems
Power in states, no grade with GB, large amount of debt, Shay’s Rebellion
Constitutional Convention, Federalism
PA Constitutional Convention, VA plan, NJ plan, Great Compromise
Compromises in Slavery
3/5 COmpromise, Slave Trade Compromise
Anti-Federalists opposing Federalists, Bill ‘o Rights
Factions. Not political parties. Federalist papers.
Institutions + Precidents
Washington, Bill ‘o RIghts, Federall Court, Hamilton’s funding + Assumption, Exise tax
Foundation of Pollitical Parties
Federalists: Pro bank, urban, pro brit, central gov, Sedition Act
Democratic-Republicans are the opposite
Expansion of Slavery
“Necessary Evil”, “The Slave Drain”, Northen Emancipation
National Identity
Federal style, poets, artists
Natives
Northwest Indian Wars
Immigrants
Scots-Irish in Appalachians, Germans