AP US History Unit 3: The American Revolution and Establishment of Democracy

Noah Webster

________ saw the US as a tolerant, rational, democratic nation, and published a speller, grammar, and reader for American schoolchildren- with Americanized spellings such as theater instead of theatre.

Continental Army

The ________ was constantly underfunded and short of basic supplies because Congress did not have the ability to levy taxes and had to ask states for funds.

Second Continental Congress

On July 4, 1776, the ________ ratified the Declaration of Independence, with a list of grievances and containing key elements of Lockes natural rights theory.

John Jay

________ was sent to Britain and came back with a treaty where Britain agreed to withdraw from the West after 18 months without any compensation to shippers or planters for lost slaves.

PA

________ attracted immigrants because of the land and need for workers, other states were not so hospitable- south was dominated by slavery and the north by Puritanism.

Washington

________ was determined to regain control north of the Ohio, defeating the Indians in the Battle of Fallen Timber in 1794, and native groups gave up claims to most of Ohio in the Treaty of Greenville Internal Migrations, Frontier Cultures, and Tensions in the Backcountry.

Hamilton

________ proposed a national bank, which would hold the governments tax revenues and act as a stabilizing force on the economy- 20 % publicly and 80 % privately controlled.

Sedition Act

________- made it a crime to defame the president or Congress (seemed to challenge free- speech guarantees of the recently ratified First Amendment)

Federalism

________ is the evolving relationship between the national government and the states.

Northwest Territory

The ________ eventually became Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin The Constitutional Convention and Debates Over Ratification Compromise and the Framing of the Constitution.

Virginia

After the ________ legislature was dissolved by Britain, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in September and October 1774 with representatives from all colonies except Georgia.

Congress

The Constitution did not clarify the status of Indian tribes, and therefore, they did not have status as foreign nations, neither did Indians have citizenship to the US nor representation in ________ Putting the Constitution into Practice.

legislative branch

The ________, Congress, has the power to levy taxes, regulate trade, coin money, establish post offices, declare war, and approve treaties.

American Revolution

The ________ started a series of revolutions that kept with Enlightenment thinking but also articulated a new set of ideas about governance, individual liberty, and reason.

Bulfinch

________ brought the Federal style to the US- a style imbued with Greek and Roman elements Movement in the Early Republic Migrations, American Indians, and Shifting Alliances.

Jefferson

________ and Madison were so opposed to the Alien and Sedition Acts that they proposed the idea that a state could nullify a law it found to be inconsistent with the Constitution The Struggle for Neutrality in the 1790s.

Craftsmen

________ and laborers made up the bulk of both local militias and the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.

Framers

________ built a system of checks and balances.

Britain

Expansion and overlapping land claims led to a war between ________ and France.

Mercy Otis Warren

________ wrote a three volume History of the Revolution.

Junipero Serra

________ was instrumental in founding the 21 missions in California- both religious missions and military outposts.

Shayss Rebellion

________ occurred right before the Philadelphia convention, and the delegates were ready to scrap the Articles and write something new Organizing the Northwest Territory.

Administration of Justice Act

The ________ allowed trials to be moved from Massachusetts to Britain- removing the ability to be judged by ones own countrymen.

Naturalization Act

________- made it more difficult for foreigners to achieve American citizenship.

Democratic Republicans

________ tended to be more critical of the British, more supportive of the French Revolution, more critical of centralized authority, and more favorable to agricultural interests.

Jedidiah Morse

________ insisted American schoolchildren use American textbooks.

France

________ surrendered its North American empire- Canada and east of Mississippi to Britain and West of Mississippi River to Spain Debt and Taxation Following the French and Indian War.

PA attracted immigrants because of the land and need for workers, other states were not so hospitable

south was dominated by slavery and the north by Puritanism

A vigilante group of Scots-Irish organized raids against American Indians, and presented their grievances to the PA legislature

bitterness to Indians and the Quaker elite for being lenient towards Indians Taxation Without Representation Colonial Resistance to British Policies in the Aftermath of the French and Indian War

By 1768, colonial leaders called for boycotts

homespun clothing was produced and Americans sought locally produced goods