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

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