THE GREAT COMPROMISE + LOUISIANA PURCHASE + ADAMS ONIS TREATY + 13 COLONIES

K Polk

________ (11th president) also referred to as "The Dark Horse President, "last strong President until the Civil War, doubled the territory of the United States, acquired a treaty between England and war with Mexico.

Jefferson

________ has a sexual relationship with Sally Hemings and fathered six- seven children.

Philadelphia

________ of 1787: decide how America was going to be governed, meeting of the Revolutionaries (named in the REVOLUTIONARIES section)

Judicial

________: Evaluates (form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess .)

Congress

________ is divided into two houses: the House of Representatives and the Senate- The House of Representatives is the lower house of the United States ________ because it has more members that the senate.

Townshend Act

________: a series of laws passes by the British government on the American Colonies in 1767, taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, etc.

American Revolution

The ________ ends with The Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783.

Sugar Act

________: a law enacted by Britain to increase British revenues by preventing the smuggling of molasses (thick, dark brown syrup obtained from raw sugar during the refining process, a version of which is used in baking) into the American colonies and enforcing the collection of higher taxes and duties.

Jefferson

________ sent James Monroe in 1803 to France to join Robert R. Livingston in an attempt to buy the port of New Orleans- Monroe and Livingston buy Louisiana from Napoleon for 15 million- Napoleon is arrogant and believed he can take over the entire world and buy back Louisiana.

American Revolution

775- 1784, ________: a political revolution that took place in British America.

7 Nations join together to take over Napoleon

Napoleon dies from stomach cancer, believed to be poisoned

Sugar Act

a law enacted by Britain to increase British revenues by preventing the smuggling of molasses ( thick, dark brown syrup obtained from raw sugar during the refining process, a version of which is used in baking) into the American colonies and enforcing the collection of higher taxes and duties

Townshend Act

a series of laws passes by the British government on the American Colonies in 1767, taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea, etc

Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin (creates first postal office), George Mason

Founding Fathers + Revolutionaries +

Revolutionaries

James Monroe (Fifth President)

Articles of Confederation

No Central Leadership (executive branch), Congress has no power to enforce laws, Congress had no power to tax, Congress had no power to regulate trade, No national court system (judicial branch), Changes to the Articles required unanimous -

Philadelphia of 1787

decide how America was going to be governed, meeting of the Revolutionaries (named in the REVOLUTIONARIES section)

Bear

Anti-Federalists argued that the Constitution only protected the founders wealth

Legislative

Makes Laws (Congress, comprising the House of Representatives and Senate)

Executive

Carries out Laws (president, vice president, Cabinet, most federal agencies)

Judicial

Evaluates (form an idea of the amount, number, or value of; assess.)

Checks and balances:

a system that allows each branch of a government to amend or veto acts of another branch to prevent any one branch from exerting too much power

Adams Onis Treaty

In 1819, ________: the United States and Spain defined the Western limits on the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claim to the Pacific Northwest

Sally Hemings

Jefferson has a sexual relationship with ________: and fathered six-seven children

Legislative

the power of the purses congress decides how much money the president gets

Rhode Island

Many Quakers settled in the Colony of  ________: and Providence Plantations, due to its policy of religious freedom

Doubled the territory

James. K Polk (11th president) also referred to as "The Dark Horse President", the last strong President until the Civil War, ________: of the United States, acquired a treaty between England and war with Mexico

James Oglethorpe

________: conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia.

Baron Baltimore

________: applied to Charles I for a royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland

John Winthrop

________: was an English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Pilgrims

established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts, and nominated William Bradford

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

The biggest accomplishment of the Articles of government was ________: which set up a process to create 5 new states between the Ohio and Mississippi river, outlawed slavery in all five of the new states

Shays' Rebellion

________: was one of several critical events that led to the calling of a Constitutional Convention the following year in Philadelphia

Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1787

________: the 55 men who met in Philadelphia hammered out a new government were not gods, most were wealthy, had college educations, and 40% served in the army during the war, all shared was a desire for a stronger national government

538 members

They didn't want too much government but they also didn't want too much democracy, which is why our Presidents are still technically elected not directly by the people but by ________: of the Electoral Collage

Roger Sherman

The Great Compromise established the United States legislature as a bicameral, or two-house law-making body, made by ________: a house of Representatives with representation proportional to each state population, and a Senate with two members from each state

Anti-Federalists

________: were very afraid of a strong government, especially one dominated by the wealthy