Chapter 7: Conflict and American Independence (1754–1800)

John Adams

John Adams

________ defended the soldiers in court, helping to establish a tradition of giving a fair trial to all who are accused.

William Pitt

________, the English Prime Minister during the war, was supportive of the colonists and encouraged them to join the war effort.

Franco American Alliance

________, negotiated by Ben Franklin in 1778, brought the French into the war on the side of the colonists.

Hamilton

________ (broad constructionist) argued bank implied power of government and not explicitly forbidden by Constitution.

Jefferson

The animosity between ________ and Hamilton and the growing belligerence between the Federalists and Democratic- Republicans set the ugly, divisive tone for Adamss term.

American history

The Declaration has been considered as a seminal document in ________, and has been a source of inspiration for movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

Adams

________ sent three diplomats to Paris, where French officials demanded a huge bribe before they would allow negotiations even to begin.

New England

Patriots were mostly white Protestant property holders and gentry, as well as urban artisans, especially in ________.

Ohio Valley

The war was the inevitable result of colonial expansion, where English settlers moved into the ________, and the French tried to stop them by building fortified outposts.

Vice President Jefferson

________ led the opposition to the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Sugar Act

The ________ actually lowered the duty on molasses coming into the colonies from the West Indies.

Mississippi Valley

The treaty gave England control of Canada and almost everything east of the ________.

George Washington

________ led a colonial contingent, which attacked a French outpost and lost.

Colonial newspapers

________ discuss ways to alter relationship between mother country and colonies.

Revolutionary War

The ________ became a war for independence with the signing of the Declaration.

Quebec Act

________ (grants greater liberties to Catholics, extends boundaries of Quebec Territory) further impeding westward expansion, causing further dissatisfaction among colonists.

Alexander Hamilton

________ was concerned about no uniform commercial policy and fear for the survival of the new republic.

Financial plan

________ called for federal government to assume states 'debts, repay by giving debt holders land on western frontier.

Proclamation of 1763

________ established a pattern of demarcating "Indian Territory "which would have negative impact on Native Americans.

Indian War

Also called the French and ________, it was actually one of several "wars for empire "fought between the British and the French.

Sugar Act

________, Currency Act, and Proclamation of 1763 caused a great deal of discontent in the colon