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| 3081865037 | Pontiac's Rebellion | 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottawa chief who opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley, destroying British forts in the area; this violence led the British to create the Proclamation Line of 1763 to prevent future conflict | 0 | |
| 3081864176 | Proclamation Line 1763 | line drawn by the British that made land west of the Appalachians Indians territory. Colonists, who craved that land, were appalled and felt betrayed and hemmed in | 1 | |
| 3081872187 | James Otis | A colonial lawyer who defended (usually for free) colonial merchants who were accused of smuggling, he used the Social Compact Theory in his argument against the writs of assistance and the Stamp Act, opposed taxation w/o representation | 2 | |
| 3081875019 | Colonial Resistance | Boycotts, tar and feathering the tax man and burning effigies, destruction of goods like tea, encouraging homespun items to replace British imports; many were efforts to effect the British economy | 3 | |
| 3081915179 | Navigation Acts | A series of British regulations which taxed goods imported by the colonies from places other than Britain, and control and regulate colonial trade. Increased British-colonial trade and tax revenues, reinstated after the French and Indian War to pay off debts which colonists resented but were not ready for Revolution and leaders like Ben Franklin thought they were legitimate | 4 | |
| 3081909962 | Stamp Act | An act passed by the British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies to pay off French and Indian war debt by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents | 5 | |
| 3081912011 | Stamp Act Congress | A meeting of delegations from many of the colonies, the congress was formed to protest the newly passed Stamp Act It adopted a declaration of rights as well as sent letters of complaints to the king and parliament, and it showed signs of colonial unity and organized resistance | 6 | |
| 3081881996 | Boston Massacre | The first bloodshed of the American resistance that would lead to revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans, Paul Revere's image used as anti-British propaganda, Brits disagreed and responded by stationing more troops there to keep the peace | 7 | |
| 3082415118 | Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor. | 8 | |
| 3082211130 | Lexington and Concord | April 8, 1775: Gage leads 700 soldiers to confiscate colonial weapons and arrest Adam, and Hancock; April 19, 1775: 70 armed militia face British (shot heard around the world); British retreat to Boston, suffer nearly 300 casualties along the way, led to the creation of the Continental Army and was the first battle of the American Revolution | 9 | |
| 3082414161 | Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of the American Revolution. It was very important because it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support. It lifted American spirits, ended the British threat in New England by taking control of the Hudson River, and, most importantly, showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy, Great Britain. | 10 | |
| 3081920468 | Declaration of Independence | Drafted in 1776 by T. Jefferson declaring America's separation from Great Britain (3 parts-New theory of government, reasons for separation, formal declaration of war and independence, made the Revolution about liberty, colonists celebrated toppling King George Statue; hypocrisy of slavery brought to public attention as well as questions about women's equality and treatment of Native Americans | 11 | |
| 3082219013 | Washington's Military Leadership | enabled the Patriots to survive the winter at Valley Forge and eventually win the war against Britain, increased his popularity and prestige leading many to support the Constitution and unanimously elect him President of the US | 12 | |
| 3082237304 | Political Parties | opposed by the founders but began to develop during Washington's first term in office, divided over the strength of the national government, interpretation of the constitution, foreign affairs, and economic concerns | 13 | |
| 3082245690 | Treaty of Paris 1783 | This treaty ended the Revolutionary War, recognized the independence of the American colonies, and granted the colonies the territory from the southern border of Canada to the northern border of Florida, and from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi River; however, Britain did not keep their promises | 14 | |
| 3082250405 | Republican Motherhood | The idea that American women had a special responsibility to cultivate "civic virtue" in their children | 15 | |
| 3082252364 | Abigail Adams | Wife of John Adams. During the Revolutionary War, she wrote letters to her husband describing life on the homefront, urged her husband to remember America's women in the new government, advocated for full citizenship | 16 | |
| 3082267059 | Articles of Confederation | 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788, weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, regulate trade, or raise an army, states sovereign and divided, Shay's rebellion led to questions about revision; strengths - Land Ordinance, Northwest Ordinance | 17 | |
| 3082275856 | Land Ordinance | Established on May 20th, 1785, calls for the selling/occupation of land west of the original colonies because Congress under AoC could not directly tax citizens, and needed revenue. | 18 | |
| 3082281577 | Northwest Ordinance | Enacted in 1787, established a system for setting up governments in the western territories and a path to statehood on an equal footing with the original 13 states, banning slavery in the territories | 19 | |
| 3082292214 | Shays Rebellion | Rebellion led by Daniel Shays of farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786-1787, protesting mortgage foreclosures. It highlighted the need for a strong national government just as the call for the Constitutional Convention went out. | 20 | |
| 3082296820 | Annapolis Convention | A convention held in September 1786 to consider problems of trade and navigation, attended by five states and important because it issued the call to Congress and the states for what became the Constitutional Convention | 21 | |
| 3082285593 | Constitutional Convention | Meeting in 1787 of the elected representatives of the thirteen original states to write the Constitution of the United States following the failure of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with foreign affairs following the Treaty of Paris '83, and domestic concerns like Shay's Rebellion | 22 | |
| 3082298388 | Federalism | result of one of the great debates during the Constitutional Convention, created a system of government in which power is distributed among certain geographical territories rather than concentrated within a central government. | 23 | |
| 3082300910 | Representation | one of the great debates during the Constitutional convention about how to determine the number of delegates each state would have in Congress, led to Great Compromise | 24 | |
| 3082308568 | Slavery | one of the great debates during the Constitutional Convention about how to count slaves toward population, fugitive slave clause, and slave trade, led to Three-Fifths Compromise | 25 | |
| 3082316763 | Anti-Federalists | individuals like Patrick Henry opposed ratification of the Constitution and strong central government that would interfere with individual liberties, they only approved ratification of the constitution after the promise to add the Bill of Rights | 26 | |
| 3082331980 | Federalists | Political Party led by Hamilton - pro-British; supported by the wealthy; pro-merchants and trade; Favored strong national government and the National Bank (BUS); loose interpretation; | 27 | |
| 3082353572 | Democratic Republicans | Led by Thomas Jefferson, believed people should have political power, favored strong STATE governments, emphasized agriculture, strict interpretation of the Constitution, pro-French, opposed National Bank | 28 | |
| 3082355212 | Jay's Treaty | Treaty signed in 1794 between the U.S. And Britain in which Britain sought to improve trade relations and agreed to withdraw from forts in the northwest territory; however it failed to end seizures of American ships and impressments which angered the American public | 29 | |
| 3082359606 | Pinckney's Treaty | 1795 and established intentions of friendship between the United States and Spain, defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies (south and west), and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River for western farmers | 30 | |
| 3082364885 | Battle of Fallen Timbers | Battle between American and Native Americans forces in 1794 over Ohio territory that led to defeat of the native Americans | 31 | |
| 3082366146 | Treaty of Greenville | Gave America all of Ohio after General Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, allowed Americans to explore the area with peace of mind that the land belonged to America and added size and very fertile land to America. | 32 | |
| 3082368920 | Hamilton's Economic Plan | was the set of measures to combine Federal and State debt, buy all bond and have government issue new ones to help with national debt, impose a tariff on imports, and create a National Bank | 33 | |
| 3082375624 | Debt Assumption | the federal government assuming state debts and paying it all off by issuing new bonds which would stabilize the currency and US economy | 34 | |
| 3082378480 | National Bank | (1791) part of Hamilton's economic plan that provided a safe storage for government funds, serve as an agent for the gov. in the collection, movement and expenditure of tax money and finance new and expanding business enterprises (speeding up national economic growth), partly owned by the government and by investors, opposed by Jefferson because the Constitution did not give the government power to set up a bank. | 35 | |
| 3082383584 | Report on Manufactures | A *proposal written by Hamilton promoting protectionism in trade by adding tariffs to imported goods in order to protect American industry*; congress did not do anything with it, the report later influenced later industrial policies. | 36 | |
| 3082387339 | Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Written anonymously by Jefferson and Madison in response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, they declared that states could nullify federal laws that the states considered unconstitutional | 37 | |
| 3082388197 | SC Exposition and Protest | A document that used the same arguements in the VA and KT Resolutions, written by John Calhoun that protested the Tariff of 1828 and threatened that SC would secede if it wasn't repealed | 38 | |
| 3082391887 | Marbury v. Madison | (1803) Supreme Court case that established judicial review, claiming the right of the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional; unlike the VA and KT Resolutions claim that this was a state power | 39 |
