Terms : Hide Images
| 4960659513 | Proclamation Line of 1763 | Stated that no colonists could settle in lands to the west of the Appalachian mountains-- made the colonists very upset |  | 0 |
| 4960659514 | Pontiac's Rebellion | 1763 - An Indian uprising after the French and Indian War, led by an Ottowa chief named Pontiac. They opposed British expansion into the western Ohio Valley and began destroying British forts in the area. The attacks ended when Pontiac was killed. | 1 | |
| 4960659515 | Sugar Act, 1764 | The first act that Parliament passed that raised taxes on the colonies. Indirect tax on imported foods from the West Indies. Colonists became so angry that Parliament lowered the duties. |  | 2 |
| 4960659516 | Stamp Act, 1765 | Parliaments put a tax on all printed material. ex. newspapers, legal documents, playing cards. |  | 3 |
| 4960659517 | 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. |  | 4 |
| 4960659518 | Quartering Act | 1765 - Required the colonials to provide food, lodging, and supplies for the British troops in the colonies. | 5 | |
| 4960659519 | Boston Massacre | The first bloodshed of the American Revolution (1770), as British guards at the Boston Customs House opened fire on a crowd killing five Americans |  | 6 |
| 4960659520 | Phillis Wheatley | (1753-1784); a slave girl brought to Boston at age eight and never formally educated; she was taken to England when, at twenty years of age, she published a book of verse and later wrote other polished poems that revealed the influence of Alexander Pope |  | 7 |
| 4960659521 | Tea Act | 1773 act which eliminated import tariffs on tea entering England and allowed the British East India Company to sell directly to consumers rather than through merchants. Led to the Boston Tea Party. |  | 8 |
| 4960659522 | Boston Tea Party | A 1773 protest against British taxes in which Boston colonists disguised as Mohawks dumped valuable tea into Boston Harbor. |  | 9 |
| 4960659523 | Intolerable Acts | A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against the British |  | 10 |
| 4960659524 | Battle of Lexington | First battle of the American Revolution when General Gage was determined to end stockpiling of weapons by farmers outside of Boston who had begun militia training. |  | 11 |
| 4960659525 | Common Sense | A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation. He claimed that monarchy was bad government, no island should rule a continent, and that economic self-interest of Britain was not in economic interest of the colonists. |  | 12 |
| 4960659526 | Thomas Paine | Author of Common Sense |  | 13 |
| 4960659527 | Declaration of Independence | 1776 statement, issued by the Second Continental Congress, explaining why the colonies wanted independence from Britain. |  | 14 |
| 4960659528 | Thomas Jefferson | 3rd President of the United States , He was a delegate from Virginia at the Second Continental Congress and wrote the Declaration of Independence. He later served as the third President of the United States. |  | 15 |
| 4960659529 | Articles of Confederation | 1st Constitution of the U.S. 1781-1788 (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade) |  | 16 |
| 4960659530 | Valley Forge | Place where Washington's army spent the winter of 1777-1778, a 4th of troops died here from disease and mal-nutrition, Baron von Steuben along with Marquis de Lafayette comes and train troops and turn the rag tag army into a professionally trained army. |  | 17 |
| 4960659531 | Yorktown | 1781; last battle of the revolution; Benedict Arnold, Cornwallis and Washington; colonists won because British were surrounded and they surrendered |  | 18 |
| 4960659532 | 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 |  | 19 |
| 4960659533 | 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 |
| 4960659534 | Constitutional Convention | A meeting in Philadelphia in 1787 that produced a new constitution |  | 21 |
| 4960659535 | 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. Led by George Washington and Alexander Hamilton. |  | 22 |
| 4960659536 | Great Compromise | 1787; This compromise was between the large and small states of the colonies. The Great Compromise resolved that there would be representation by population in the House of Representatives, and equal representation would exist in the Senate. Each state, regardless of size, would have 2 senators. All tax bills and revenues would originate in the House. This compromise combined the needs of both large and small states and formed a fair and sensible resolution to their problems. |  | 23 |
| 4960659537 | Three-Fifths Compromise | Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the 13th amendment) |  | 24 |
| 4960659538 | Northwest Ordinances | Bills passed in 1784, 1785, and 1787 that authorized the sale of lands in the Northwest Territory to raise money for the federal government; these bills also carefully laid out the procedures for eventual statehood for parts of these territories. |  | 25 |
| 4960659539 | Federalist Papers | A collection of 85 articles written by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison under the name "Publius" to defend the Constitution in detail. |  | 26 |
| 4960659540 | Hamilton's Financial Plan | The government would take the debt of the nations and the states debt, make a national bank, and tax higher (which was the only one that did not pass thru congress) |  | 27 |
| 4960659541 | Bill of Rights | Although the Anti-Federalists failed to block the ratification of the Constitution, they did ensure that the Bill of Rights would be created to protect individuals from government interference and possible tyranny. The Bill of Rights, drafted by a group led by James Madison, consisted of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which guaranteed the civil rights of American citizens. |  | 28 |
| 4960659542 | Whiskey Rebellion | In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion. |  | 29 |
| 4960659543 | John Adams | (1797-1801) The 11th Amendment is added to the Constitution in 1798. Washington D.C. becomes America's official capitol in 1800., He was the second president of the United States and a Federalist. He was responsible for passing the Alien and Sedition Acts. Prevented all out war with France after the XYZ Affair. His passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts severely hurt the popularity of the Federalist party and himself |  | 30 |
| 4960659544 | Quasi War with France | Adams was angry as a result of XYZ Affair, trade was cut off with French treaties of 1778 were repudiated and impressment of French sailors was ordered; 1798 - Navy was being funded - captured 35 French ships; Britain - ally; Finally France reconciled and new treaty allied with French; undeclared war |  | 31 |
| 4960659545 | XYZ Affair | 1798 - A commission had been sent to France in 1797 to discuss the disputes that had arisen out of the U.S.'s refusal to honor the Franco-American Treaty of 1778. President Adams had also criticized the French Revolution, so France began to break off relations with the U.S. Adams sent delegates to meet with French foreign minister Talleyrand in the hopes of working things out. Talleyrand's three agents told the American delegates that they could meet with Talleyrand only in exchange for a very large bribe. The Americans did not pay the bribe, and in 1798 Adams made the incident public, substituting the letters "X, Y and Z" for the names of the three French agents in his report to Congress. |  | 32 |
| 4960659546 | Alien & Sedition Acts | Acts passed by federalists giving the government power to imprison or deport foreign citizens and prosecute critics of the government passed by Adams in response to Democratic-Republican criticism of his policies, who were led by Thomas Jefferson. |  | 33 |
| 4960659547 | Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions | Political declarations in favor of states' rights, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in opposition to the Alien and Sedition acts. Maintained that states could nullify federal legislation they regarded as unconstitutional |  | 34 |
| 4960659548 | Albany Plan of Union 1754 | Plan proposed by Benjamin Franklin that sought to unite the 13 colonies for trade, military, and other purposes; the plan was turned down by the colonies & the Crown. |  | 35 |
| 4960659549 | Virtual representation | British governmental theory that Parliament spoke for all British subjects, including Americans, even if they did not vote for its members |  | 36 |
| 4960659550 | Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer | -John Dickenson claimed that Parliament did not have the power to tax the colonists for the purpose of raising revenue (taxation without representation) |  | 37 |
| 4960659551 | Marquis de Lafayette | French soldier who joined General Washington's staff and became a general in the Continental Army. |  | 38 |
| 4960659552 | Baron von Steuben | A stern, Prussian drillmaster that taught American soldiers during the Revolutionary War how to successfully fight the British. |  | 39 |
| 4960659553 | Treaty of Paris, 1763 | Ended French and Indian War, France lost Canada, land east of the Mississippi, to British, New Orleans and west of Mississippi to Spain |  | 40 |
| 4960659554 | John Locke | English philosopher who advocated the idea of a "social contract" in which government powers are derived from the consent of the governed and in which the government serves the people; also said people have natural rights to life, liberty and property. |  | 41 |
| 4960659555 | Baron Montesquieu | Enlightenment thinker who supported the idea of separation of powers in his treatise "Spirit of Laws". |  | 42 |
| 4960659556 | Enlightenment | A movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institutions. Political application of the philosophy led to ideas of philosophers such as Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. | 43 | |
| 4960659557 | Committees of Correspondence | Committees of Correspondence, organized by patriot leader Samuel Adams, was a system of communication between patriot leaders in New England and throughout the colonies. They provided the organization necessary to unite the colonies in opposition to Parliament. The committees sent delegates to the First Continental Congress. |  | 44 |
| 4960659558 | Saratoga | A battle that took place in New York where the Continental Army defeated the British. It proved to be the turning point of the war. This battle ultimately had France to openly support the colonies with military forces in addition to the supplies and money already being sent. | 45 | |
| 4960659559 | Franco-American Alliance of 1778 | Agreement by France to fund American military aids and loans to American colonies to the tune of $54 million dollars. The French were keen on seeing the British lose territory as they had in the French and Indian War. |  | 46 |
| 4960659560 | Ben Franklin | Ambassador to France, convinces the French to enter the Revolutionary War in the Franco-American Alliance of 1778 through his wit and charm. | 47 | |
| 4960659561 | Benedict Arnold | American General who was labeled a traitor when he assisted the British in a failed attempt to take the American fort at West Point. |  | 48 |
| 4960659562 | Nathan Hale | A young 22 year old who was killed (hanged) without trial as spy by British in the revolution. He said, "I regret I have but one life to give to my country". |  | 49 |
| 4960659563 | Culper Spy Ring | A group of spies that pretend to be normal people and collect information for George Washington, commander of the Continental Army who proved capable of using many different tactics to win the war. |  | 50 |
