Period 3-4 Flashcards
(36 cards)
Seven Years War
France and America fight over land and Britian has to fight for them we get taxed for it
Proclamation of 1763
The boundary line past the Appalachian mountains settlers can’t pass
British Tax
A result of the seven year war things like the sugar tax, stamp act, and deculatory act
Mercantilism
Baby Capitalism
Virtual Representation
members of an elected body, such as the British Parliament, represent the country or empire as a whole regardless of where individuals live.
Republicanism
governing the nation as a republic, doing things for the greater good of the nation
Patriots
The people who were rebelling against Britain during the war, their goal was to fight against England. They had First Continental Congress.
Loyalists
Colonists who remained loyal to Britian.
Common Sense
Thomas Paine published the pamphlet Common Sense in 1776, argued that the colonists should leave Britian and establish an independent government based on Enlightenment ideals
American Revolution
The American Revolution was the war for independence of the thirteen colonies from Great Britain. The war was fought on American soil from 1775-1783.
Declaration of Independence
a document that declared that the United States were independent from Britian and that a new country would be formed out of its former colonies
“Republican motherhood”
Its a woman’s job to educate and nurture the next generation
Constitutional Convention
The meeting of state/colonies delegates in 1787 in Philadelphia called to revise the Articles of Confederation. It instead designed a new plan of government, the US Constitution. Farmers of Constitution.
Articles of Confederation
the first constitution of the United States, and they established a loose confederation of states with a weak central government
Constitution
the fundamental law of the U.S. federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world.
Federalists
Supported an orderly, efficient central government that could protect their economic status and wanted a strong central government
Anti-federalist
Anti Federalists wanted a weak central government and more power to the people and opposed the ratification of the Constitution.
Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments of the Constitution. The Amendments secure key rights for individuals and reserve to the states all powers not explicitly delegated or prohibited by the Constitution.
Democratic Republicans
Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored weak central government, emphasized the common man, strict interpretation of the Constitution, and opposed National Bank.
Northwest Ordinance
defined the process by which new states could be admitted into the Union from the Northwest Territory
Northwest Land ordiance of 1785
laid out how lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold
Washington’s Farewell Address
Big man sets some rules for presidency only two term limits, and no foreign involvement no two party system
Marshall Court
Whigs
They were in favor of inside improvements like building canals and railroads and the banking systems that would allow for those improvements like the National Bank.