APUSH Unit 3

1754-1800

Unit 3 time period

1754

French and Indian War Date

Treaty of Paris 1763

Treaty that ended the French and Indian war

Proclamation Line of 1763

A legislature in which Britain did not allow colonists to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains to avoid expensive conflicts with natives.

Grenville’s Plan

A series of harsh British legislature imposed on the colonies

Stamp Act 1765

A tax on anything paper imposed on the colonies- primary cause of colonist anger because this was the first time the British were blatantly extracting money from them without an excuse

Committees of Correspondence

Groups of colonists who gathered together to rebel against Britain

Stamp Act Congress

colonies formally gathered to get parliament to repeal the stamp act.

Declaratory Act 1766

Britain declared they had power over the colonies in all cases whatsoever. Passed the same day the stamp act was repealed.

Mutiny Act 1764

Britain made colonists house its soldiers.

Townshend Acts 1767

British tax on colonial imports

Tea Act 1773

Gave the BEIC an unfair advantage compared to colonial merchants

Coercive/Intolerable Acts 1774

Closed the boston harbor until tea was paid for, made anyone accused in the colonies tried in Britain, and reinforced the quartering act.

Boston Massacre 1770

Redcoats shoot into a crowd and kill 5

Boston Tea Party 1773

Colonists dress as Mohawks and dump a ton of BEIC tea into the boston harbor.

Social Contract

The government is formed to protect peoples natural rights

First Continental Congress

The colonists challenged these angering pieces of British legislation while remaining British.

Second Continental Congress

A response to Lexington and Concord, this group of colonists once again negotiated with the British.

Lexington and Concord

British soldiers marched through the colonial interior to seize weapons, only to be brutally destroyed by minutemen

Common Sense

A pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that encouraged revolutionary ideas about revolt

Thomas Jefferson

Who wrote the declaration of independence?

Battle of Trenton

A battle against Hessians in which the Americans won.

Hessians

German merceneries

Freidrich Wilhelm Von Steuben

A prussian officer who trained the continental army anew during the winter

Battle of Saratoga

A battle that the Americans won that impressed the French and won their alliance.

Battle of Yorktown

The final battle of the American revolution. Victory!

Treaty of Paris 1783

A treaty that ended the American revolution and recognized America’s independence

Articles of Confederation 1777

Intentionally weak first form of American federal government.

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Said that states have to adopt religious freedom, abolish slavery, and a right to trial by jury in the Great Lakes Region.

Land Ordinance of 1784

Established governments in new Western Territories

Land Ordinance of 1785

The government can sell western land to the people, and establishes a grid system.

Constitutional Convention

55 delegates gathered in Philadelphia in order to revise the Articles of Confederation

Virginia Plan

Representation by Population

New Jersey Plan

Equal representation

Great Compromise

Compromise between Virginia and New Jersey Plans

3/5ths Compromise

Said that 3/5ths of slaves count towards representation and taxation

Thomas Jefferson

Who headed the department of state?

Henry Knox

Who headed the department of war?

Alexander Hamilton

Who headed the department of the treasury?

Edmund Randolph

Who headed the department of justice?

22nd amendment

Formally restricted the # of terms a president can serve (issued waaay later)

Whiskey Rebellion 1791

Strained farmers rebelled against the tax on whiskey and were stomped out by the new strengthened federal government.

1789

French Revolution was in…

Neutrality Proclamation 1789

George Washington ordered America to stay out of the French Revolution

Alien and Sedition Acts

Restricted foreigners and punished those who spoke against the government.

Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions

Said that the alien and sedition acts were unconstitutional and introduced nullification

Treaty of Greenville

Opened Ohio for settling

Jay’s Treaty

A treaty that failed to get Britain to agree to American terms about leaving their territory, not attacking ships, and offering compensation but that was still signed.

Pincney Treaty

A treaty that formally established the boundaries between Spanish territories and America and opened the Mississippi for US trade.

XYZ Affair

Conflicts with France because France wanted Americans to pay up before they would hear the negotiators America sent

Quasi War

Kind-of war with France