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| 971824191 | Olive Branch Petion | Petition by Congress allowing Great Britain the chance to avoid war in exchange for representation of the Americans in British Parliment. | |
| 971824192 | Declaration of Independence | Final straw for the Colonists to enter the American Revolution and began to outline the beginnings of a new Constitution. | |
| 971824193 | Articles of Confederation | 1st Constitution of the United States that had a weak central government that only stayed in effect during the Revolution | |
| 971824194 | French Involvement in the Revolution | French provided troops, loans, and munitions for the use of the Americans | |
| 971824195 | Phases of the War | 1st: New England (Split the colonies) 2nd: Mid-Atlantic 3rd: South (Use of Tories) | |
| 971824196 | Battle of Saratoga | Turning point in the war that lead to alliance with France | |
| 971824197 | American Advantages in the Revolution | home field, supplies, housing, British mistakes, French support | |
| 971824198 | Common Sense | 1776: a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation | |
| 971824199 | Iriquios Confederacy | Began breaking appart after French-Indian War and were chased into Canada after Saratoga | |
| 971824200 | Treaty of Paris | Treaty signed by Britain and American after Yorktown in 1783 | |
| 971824201 | Female Camp Followers | Performed necessary tasks in war camps, like cooking, cleaning, but also some ended up in combat (Molly Pitcher) lead to women's rights movements | |
| 971824202 | Statute of Religious Liberty | Gave complete freedom of religion in Virginia, gave way to 1st Amendment | |
| 971824203 | The Land Ordinances | Divided all of the land into grids and created territiories and states | |
| 971824204 | Shay's Rebellion | Rebellion that took a lot of state militias to put down pushed for the need for a Constitution. | |
| 971824205 | Virginia Plan | Posed the idea of representation based on population to the Constitutional Convention | |
| 971824206 | New Jersey Plan | Posed the idea of equal representaion by state to the Constitutional Convention. | |
| 971824207 | Great Comprimise | Created a two house system where the upper house is of equal representaion and the lower is by population. | |
| 971824208 | 3/5 Comprimise | Gave Slaves the right to be counted as 3/5 of a person for taxation and representaion | |
| 971824209 | Separation of Powers | The Constitution created 3 houses, the Executitve, Judicial, and Legeslative with a set of Checks and Balences to prevent corruption. | |
| 971824210 | Federalists | Set of powerful supporters of the Constitution that beleived in a stronger central government, wrote important documents like the Federalist Papers describing the views of the federalists. | |
| 971824211 | Anti-Federalists | Opposition to the Constitution that beleived that a strong central government would cause a tyranny like the King of England. | |
| 971824212 | Bill of Rights | 1st 10 ammendments of the Constitution that gave the original rights to citizen. Forced through Congress by the Anti- Federalists as a condition to the Constitution | |
| 971824213 | Alexander Hamilton | The first Secretary of the Treasury that developed the idea to create a national bank to assume debts for wars, to give loans to small buisnesses and to give the government a safe place to store money. | |
| 971824214 | Whiskey Rebellion | Rebellion over the tax on Whiskey that was put down by George Washington leading state militias to put it down with intimidation. Lead to the need for a centralized national military. | |
| 971824215 | Jay's Treaty | Made a peace between Britain and America and disallowed the British seizing of American merchant ships. It also created a commercial relationship between the countries and gave the US all of the Northwest. | |
| 971824216 | Pinckney's Treaty | Thomas Pinckney gained the support of the Spaniards so that America received the right to travel the Mississippi, deposit goods in New Orleans, extend the border further into Spanish Florida, and protection from Spain against Indians from Florida. | |
| 971824217 | XYZ Afair | French ships were caught stealing American merchant ships and when Americans went to negotiate, were asked for a bribe to negotiate but refused. This lead to a few small fights between ships called the Quasi War and ended after a second trip to France. | |
| 971824218 | Alien and Sedition Acts | (1798) laws passed by a Federalist-dominated Congress aimed at protecting the government from treasonous ideas, actions, and people | |
| 971824219 | Thomas Jefferson | Elected into office in 1800 as a Republican and tried to create a limited executivee while at times giving the President more power | |
| 971824220 | Jefferson's Vision | A society of small independent freeholders with representation in a genral government with a weak Executive Branch. | |
| 971824221 | Education | Dominated by private schooling though there were some weak public schooling systems. Women were only given Primary education for the purpose of being better mothers. | |
| 971824222 | Noah Webster | Wrote books on new American spellings allong with other American authors to increase nationalism. | |
| 971824223 | New Medicine | Doctors used new technics and systems to sure like bleeding and purging and midwives became unnessesary. | |
| 971824224 | Religious Skepticism | Growing uncertainty about traditional beleifs pertaining God that lead to the growth of religions like deism. | |
| 971824225 | Deism | Beleif that God created the Earth and retracted Himself from influence from it. | |
| 971824226 | Second Great Awakening | Another religious revival that further separated denominations but forced the growing idea that people could be of the same faith but not the same denomination. | |
| 971824227 | Camp Meetings | Religious meetings that were meant to further spread the Second Great Awakening through speakers. | |
| 971824228 | Eli Whitney | Credited with the invention of the Cotton Gin (separates cottonfrom seeds quickly) and Interchangable Parts (Parts that can be switched between machines to allow easy fixing) | |
| 971824229 | Northern Economy | After the invention of the Cotton Gin, the North became a textile industry with mostly factories. | |
| 971824230 | Industrial Transportation | Turnpikes (hard packed rock used as roads) and the Steamboat (used for ease of travel down the Mississippi) further transformed the Industrial Revolution | |
| 971824231 | Barbary Pirates | Pirates off the coast of Africa that forced the US to create a navy to challenge the stealing of American ships. | |
| 971824232 | Marbury v. Madison | Supreme Court case where Marbury never received commission from Madison and John Marshall ruled that, under the Constitution, the court did not have juristiction. Established Judicial Review. | |
| 971824233 | Judicial Review | Ther ability for the court to rule things Constitutional or Unconstitutional. | |
| 971824234 | John Marshall | The Supreme Court chief justice at the time of Marbuy v. Madison that established judicial review. | |
| 971824235 | Lousianna Purchase | Napolean sold the US a large portion of land west of the Mississippi for a reletivley cheap price and Jefferson immedietly accepted. | |
| 971824236 | Aron Burr | The former Vice President involved in a conspiracy to separate the Louisianna Territory from the US and Mexico from Spain to create a Western Empire of his own. He also killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel. | |
| 971824237 | Impressment | The act of forcing or bribing people to join the army or navy. Used by the British in its navy due to harsh conditions. | |
| 971824238 | The Embargo | Laws preventing all trade with any country other than the US. Lead to the Non-Intercourse Act which reopened trade to all countries other than France and Britain. | |
| 971824239 | Tecumseh | Lead a revolt against Americans to the Battle of Tippecanoe over movement of Indians west without Indian approval. | |
| 971824240 | William Henry Harrison | Governer of the Indiana Territory that forced, willingly or unwillingly, Indians to move out of US lands, west toward the Pacific. | |
| 971824241 | War Hawks | Memebers of the US congress that were considered very eager to have a war with Britain | |
| 971824242 | War of 1812 | War with Britain over a series of problems to do with the acctual sovereignty of the US that ended with the Battle of New Orleans. | |
| 971824243 | Hartford Convention | A convention of New England Federalists that made the resolution to seceed from the US or to add 7 amendments to the Constitution. They lead to the end of the Federalist party once the War of 1812 ended. | |
| 971824244 | Treaty of Ghent | The treaty ending the War of 1812 that gave the US Canada and ended impressment on US ships. | |
| 971824245 | Rush-Bagot Agreement | Called for the Disarment of the Great Lakes from Canada. |
