AP US: Revolutionary Period 1760s-1789 Flashcards

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47998585	tea act	all other acts repealed except this one	4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