APUSH Period 3 Review (1754-1800)

Seven Year/ French and Indian War (1754-63)

The French and the natives joined together to fight the Brits off their territory

Treaty of Paris

Ended the Seven Year War, France gave it’s US soil to the Brits and Spain

Albany Congress

Albany plan of union: join the colonies to fight the french/natives

Salutary Neglect

Similar to Laissez-Faire, where the government doesn’t get too involved in it’s people’s affairs

Declaratory Act 1766

Britain could establish any laws they wanted in the colonies

Townshend Act 1767

Tax on imports

Tea Act 1773

Taxed tea, resulted in the Boston Tea Party

Patriots

Colonists who supported England

Continental Congress 1774

fought against British oppression, at their second meeting in 1776 they declared independence

Thomas Paine

Wrote “Common Sense” which advocated for Independence from Britain

Battle of Lexington & Concord

First battle of revolutionary war

Battle of Saratoga

French allied with the colonists after their loss

Battle of Yorktown

America’s victory against Britain

Articles of Confederation

First constitution in America, no centralized militry and no taxing

Northwest Ordinance 1787

Under the Articles of Confederation, any unmarked territory goes to the Union, and abolishes slavery in those areas

Shay’s Rebellion 1786

Angry farmers tried rebelling because of widespread economic hardships, exposes the Articles’ weakness

Constitutional Convention 1786

caused by shay’s rebellion, trying to establish a better constitution

Federalists vs Anti-Federalists

Federalists wanted a strong central government, Anti-Federalist wanted the states to have more power (laissez-faire)

Virgina/ New Jersey Plans (1787)

Virginia Plan - representation by population

New Jersey Plan - equal representation regardless of population

The Great Compromise of 1787

Split congress into House of Representatives (for population) and Senate (2 elected representatives from each state)

3/5 compromise

part of the great compromise, counting slaves as 3/5 of a person for representation

Federalist Papers

written by Hamilton, Madison, John Jay to persuade people to ratify the constitution (anti-federalists didn’t like it because there was no Bill of Rights)

Hamilton

Established a national bank under the Elastic Clause

Elastic Clause

Allowed any law that is necessary and proper to be passed under the constitution

Whiskey Rebellion 1794

Farmers who produced whiskey rebelled because of the taxes placed on their products (now that there was a centralized military, it was shut down unlike Shay’s)

Democratic Republicans

Anti-Federalists like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

XYZ Affair 1798

The French would harass American trade ships during their disputes with Britain, so Adams sent over a diplomat to negotiate peacefully, but the French wanted to be bribed

Virginia and Kentucky resolutions 1798

Goes against elastic clause- unconstitutional laws can be nullified

Pickney’s Treaty in 1795

Determined border between Spanish land and American land