Period 3 APUSH Test (7-10)

What was the declaration of rights and grievances

resolution made by the stamp act congress, stated that only colonial legislature can tax colonies and states some natural rights of the colonies.

What occured at the first continental congress?

1774, what to do in response to Intolerable acts and plans for colonial defense. if grievances weren’t met, they’d meet again later

What occurred at the second continental congress

Declaring independence, selecting GW as the leader, plans for revolution, reluctant revolutionaries

Pontiac’s rebellion

Native Americans banding toegther to fight GB rule. eventually ended in treaty, causes the Proclamation of 1763

What was the aftermath of the boston massacre?

Shock, anti-british sentiment, casualties, and propaganda

Who were the Paxton boys?

frontier folk in PA who killed a ton of Native Americans because the Quaker leaders weren’t doing anything about the aggressive ones. perceieved favoritism, leading to Native massacre.

What was the significne of the land ordinance act

Establishing policy of surveying and sectioning land before selling. facilitated westward expansion

significance of northwest ordinance act

Established blueprint of new states forming, new states = old states, NO SLAVERY!!

Fort Ticonderoga

NY, 1775, colonists stole gunpowder

Bunker/breeds Hill

1775, colonists took breeds hill and were slaughtering them redcoats with machetes until they ran out of gunpowder and had to retreat. “woah, we could lowk win this war'“

Olive Branch Petition

1775, sent after breeds hill as a last ditch attempt to reconcile with britain.E

Evacuation Day

1776, people of MA manage to get redcoats out of the state

Resposne to evacuation day

britain set a crap ton of ships and men to scare the americans. GW barely escaped with his life

Trenton battle

Christmas night, GW attacked GB at camp when they were drunk and sleeping, so they won that. A week later, GW won another battle

Battle of Saratoga

1777, turning point. Howe planned to fight with burgoyne against GW. Hower forced GW into valley forge. GW thn demolished Howe with his trained army and burgoyne was busy with his hoes.

valley forge

1778, GW men died of disease. survived due to inoculation. Friedrich Wilhelm Baron bon Steuben trained colonists into killers

Nathaniel Greene

Fighting quaker. Helped forced the GB forced back up into YorktownY

Yorktown

‘final’ battle of the revolutionary war. GB surrendered

Treaty of Paris 1783

Loyalists would be left alone (they weren’t)

Britain can collect US debt

US get land from Atlantic to mississippi river

Brutus/Robert Yates

Wrote brutus essays, arguing against the constitution

1st anti slaveyr group

1775, established by philly quakersS

Slavery in new US

Northern states started outlawing it, but it wasn’t fully decided on out of fear of disrupting unity of 13 states.

Powers of states under articles of confederation

sovereignty

mint money

have military

implement tariffs

tax residents

enforce federal laws if they want

Powers of federal gov under articles of confed

min money

establish post office

borrow money

military

deal with foreign matters

CANNOT:

tax, enforce laws, regulate trade, 9/13 states had to agree to pass laws, 13/13 to amend articles

Judiciary Act of 1787

Created federal courts

Created circuit courts

created number of justices (9)

Estbalished office of attorney general

Jay’s treaty

1794, John Jay went to GB to avert war, required GB to evacuate posts in NW, and facilitate peaceful trade. GB Will not stop impressment, and US has to pay their debt.

XYZ Affair

reps from US went to paris to reconcile after cheating, but spoke to nobodies called XYZ. US was pissed

Pickney’s treaty

Spain gave mississippi to US because they feared a US/GB conflict

Great Compromise

bicameral legislature. NJ plan is the senate, equal rep. VA plan is the house of reps, proportional rep.

Who chose senators

legislators, until amednment 17

Ultimate governor of liberty is

virtue of the peopel

Federalist papers

Explain and promote consitution

Alient and Sedition acts

Federalists were winning out in rep, so they took advantage and passed this. Alien acts make it harder to become a citizen, + deportation. Sedition acts make it harder for anti-feds to have power. huge violation of 1st amendment

Virginia and kentucky resolutions

Jefferson and Madison wrote that since the state govs made the fed one, they can nullify an act if it’s dookie. (Interpreting law is up to the judicial branch though).