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| 47998581 | political, religious & intellectual movements that paved the way for am. rev. though | brits were taxing americans & making them only buy their goods, french/indian war ended the age of salutary neglect, since brits were in debt from the war they started taxing america even more, left soldiers in america | 0 | |
| 47998582 | stamp act | will affect everyone, "no taxation w/o representation" | 1 | |
| 47998583 | townshend act | practically a tax on all imports | 2 | |
| 47998584 | boston massacre | paul revere's painting, first to fall leads to the townshend acts | 3 | |
| 47998585 | tea act | all other acts repealed except this one | 4 | |
| 47998586 | quebec act | canada no representation | 5 | |
| 47998587 | 1st continental congress | 1774 declaration of american rights, boycott trade with the english | 6 | |
| 47998588 | olive branch petition | tried to tell britain their grievances | 7 | |
| 47998589 | importance of tom paine/common sense | jan. 1776: Tom Paine wrote a pamphlet called common sense - called for breaking ties with GB all together instead of just revolting against taxes and acts. contrary to common sense for a big continent to be ruled by a small island across the ocean & for ppl to pledge allegiance to a king who is corrupt and whose laws were unreasonable | 8 | |
| 47998590 | ideas found in the dec of indep, author, whose ideas was it based on? | Jefferson wrote the dec of indep., but it was Richard Henry Lee's idea. list of grievances against king george 3 and said that we needed to have the basic rights of life, liberty & the pursuit of happiness, claimed rights of the ppl had been violated repeatedly, no new ideas in it. based on locke, paine, and george mason's virigina dec of indep | 9 | |
| 47998591 | basics of dif views of the causes of the am rev? | taxes & they wanted to be indep | 10 | |
| 47998592 | how radical was the rev? | Goorstin: not a rev b/c there were no new ideas, leaders were not radicals. Wood: rev b/c it established a republic and rejected the monarchy, social change, old social order was replaced, america became standard of republicanism | 11 | |
| 47998593 | what groups supported the am rev? which groups were loyalists? what was the majority view at the onset of the war? | thought the war would be over quickly, loyalists: tories who were loyal to the king and native americans b/c british claimed ten they would limit settlement in the west. patriots: for american cause and blacks - both sides claimed if they fought with them & won, they would be freed | 12 | |
| 47998594 | major battles of the rev war? turning point? | saratoga - turning point. up until then americans were not doing well. Yorktown was another US victory | 13 | |
| 47998595 | major even that helped the french become involved? | american victory at saratoga in 1777. wanted to beat the british | 14 | |
| 47998596 | advantages of the colonists | home field advantage, inspiration to fight for liberty, rights & indep, france started helping in 1778, good military leadership | 15 | |
| 47998597 | reasons why brit lost | supplies were far away, large area to conquer, weak military leaders, sympathy by brit public for american cause, against french now too | 16 | |
| 47998598 | treaty of paris | US = indep, Miss. R. is western boundary, americans have fishing rights in canada, americans would pay debts owed to brit merchants. 1783 | 17 | |
| 47998599 | main features of the new state govts that were established during the war | every state govt wrote a dif state constitution, each began with a list of basic rights | 18 | |
| 47998600 | main challenges & goals for new nation once war was over | setting up a new govt that worked with all their needs, overcoming money probs | 19 | |
| 47998601 | under the articles of confederation, what 2 important laws regarding western lands were passed and what did they accomplish? | 1. land ordinance of 1785: congress established a policy for surveying and selling western lands. 2. NW ordinance of 1787: for territory btwn great lakes and ohio r., this set the rules for creating new states, granted limited self govt to the developing territory & prohibited slavery in the region | 20 | |
| 47998602 | what event in 1787 reflected the economic probs btwn debtors and creditors during the critical period? | economy was in terrible condition b/c they could not get out of natl debt & they were printing worthless paper $. all the states didnt work together but were suspicious of each other and tried to trade only within their own state | 21 | |
| 47998603 | what main prob in the Confederation govt was the constitution trying to solve? | how to run the US, bunch of states or central govt? | 22 | |
| 47998604 | major power specifically denied to national govt in the articles? | 10th amendment: laws not covered by federal govt or prohibited are left to the states & the ppl. also cant tax exports | 23 | |
| 47998605 | socio-economic background of most of the delegates to the Philly convention? | college educated & wealthy | 24 | |
| 47998606 | which 2 european political philosophers contributed the major principles the constitution was built on? | John Locke & Montesque | 25 | |
| 47998607 | the great compromise | solved the problem of representation, everyone would have the senate and then house of reps based off pop. | 26 | |
| 47998608 | who supported the const | federalists | 27 | |
| 47998609 | who opposed the const | anti federalists | 28 | |
| 47998610 | what promise was made to improve support for the const | addition of a bill of rights b.c the anti feds wanted that | 29 | |
| 47998611 | what part of the const allowed the fed govt. to ability to grow and expand its power? | 9th amendment: any rights not specifically stated in the const are also guaranteed against govt. infringement | 30 | |
| 47998612 | importance of the federalist papers | persuasive papers written by Madison, Hamilton & Jay, explaining every part of the const to the public. gained support for the const | 31 |
