QUIZ 15 - Class 17: Egalitarianism, Flatboats, Sectionalism

American Revolution

Evolution more than Revolution

- Slowly changed into Americans

Egalitarian Factors

1. No loyalists

- 50,000 gone of the nobility/wealthy

2. Only 3 franchise requirements

- No need to own property, or to be part of the state religion

Virginia Religious Statute (1786)

States you do not need to follow the state religion in order to vote

Suffrage

The right to vote

Sectionalism

1 or 13, "are a good nation"

- Dividing problem: Slavery

Slavery

America's original sin, legal in all states

Mason-Dixon Line

The line separating the North from the South, between Maryland and Pennsylvania

Manumission

The decision to free slaves

1. Individual decision

2. State statutes/Laws

3. Economy/Politics/Federal Government

New England

No slavery because of state constitution

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Rhode Island

No slavery because of state laws

South

Slavery because of economic dependence

- Protected by 5th Amendment

Sovereignty

The power to tax and make decisions tug-of-war between Congress and the 13 States

Domestic Problems

1. Different currency

2. No government and army

ex. Right of deposit

3. State-State tariffs

4. Border disputes

ex. Pennsylvania vs. Connecticut

ex. Northwest land claims

5. No taxation power

6. Economic catastrophe

- Creditors vs. debtors

Shay's Rebellion (1786)

Armed debtors/farmers marched on the Springfield, MA courthouse

- Result: Cancelled debt, angered creditors, Riot Act established

British Treaty of Versailles Violations

1. Furposts/garrisons in Northwest

- Native allies

ex. Detroit

2. Closed British West Indies for trade

- Halted sugar industry

ex. Rum and molasses

3. Own-state products on ship

- Not enough ships

- Could be labeled as smuggling

- No merchant marine

Spain/America Friction

Happened b/c Spain was jealous of America

1. Florida

2. East Mississippi River boundary

- No right of deposit

Flatboats

American boats used for transporting crops

- Cannot get through rough waters

Right of Deposit

The freedom to stockpile American goods until ships came to transport them overseas

No Right of Deposit Results

1. Economic constipation

- Not able to transport crops

- Crops perish

2. No egalitarian government

- East > West

- Sectionalism

Jay-Gardoqui Treaty (1786)

The treaty stating Spain will open ports to the United States without the Right of Deposit

- Can't use New Orleans port

Strait of Gibraltar

The strait between the North African Coast and Spain controlled by the Barbary Pirates

- Enabled trade, needed to pay tribute to get through

- Problem: Couldn't pay tribute because of no tax power

31st-Parallel

1. Slave Freedom

ex. Stono Rebellion

2. Natives

- No Dual E policy

Egalitarian

Equalness as a citizen

1. No monarchy

2. No class hierarchy

Barbary States

North African coastal pirates whom the United States had to pay tribute to in order to gain access to the Mediterranean River

- Strait of Gibraltar

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