"American Revolution," 1754-1800, Ch. 7.3

pg. 265-274

“Comity” clause

Restricts states from discriminating between the “privileges and immunities” of their citizens and citizens from other states. Implies the rights of citizens are determined by the states, not the federal government.

“Birthright citizenship”

Anyone born in the United States, regardless of their race, language, religion, national origin, or the legal situation of their parents, is an American citizen entitled to the equal protection of the laws.

Civic Nationalism

Nation that forms from people who agree with the political structure and social values.

Ethnic Nationalism

Nation as a community with shared ethnic heritage, language, and culture.

War in the Ohio Valley

1791, Little Turtle, leader of the Miami Confederacy, defeated American forced led by Arthur St. Clair (American governor of the Northwest Territory). 630 died, biggest/costliest loss ever suffered by the United States Army from the hands of the Indigenous peoples.

Treaty of Greenville (1795)

12 Indigenous tribes ceded most of Ohio and Indiana to the federal government, led to the “annuity” system.

Annuity system

A system in witch the federal government pays the Indigenous peoples yearly, because the federal government is mixing into their tribal affairs.

Gradual Emancipation

The acts passed after the Revolution that freed slaves after a certain age, following long “apprenticeships.”

Edmund Randolph

United State’s first attorney general. Believed that enslaved peoples were not members of their society, and that liberty shouldn’t apply to them.

Naturalization Act 1790

First legislative definition of American nationality.

Open Immigration

Immigration laws that had nearly all white people capable of immigrating and becoming naturalized citizens. Not until sometime after 1875 did criminals and such become barred from entering the country.

Notes on the State of Virginia 1785

Thomas Jefferson’s writing that claimed black people were incapable of becoming part of the society because of the legacy of slavery (they are now disloyal to the nation because of their mistreatrment), and presenting the natural distinctions between races to support why they’re inferior, and why they can’t be accepted into society.

Sally Hemmings

Enslaved woman of Thomas Jefferson, who raped her and had children. In Jefferson’s will, he freed only a couple of the children he had with her.