Unit 3: Period: 1754-1800

Literacy rates

Literacy rates

________ in New England were higher due to the Puritan legacy of teaching children to read the Bible.

John Adams

________ defended the soldiers in court, helping to establish a tradition of giving a fair trial to all who are accused.

Colonial newspapers

________ discuss ways to alter relationship between mother country and colonies.

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.

political activity

Women were largely excluded from ________ but had an important civil role and responsibility.

Jefferson

The animosity between ________ and Hamilton and the growing belligerence between the Federalists and Democratic- Republicans set the ugly, divisive tone for Adamss term.

Hamilton

________ (broad constructionist) argued bank implied power of government and not explicitly forbidden by Constitution.

Adams

________ sent three diplomats to Paris, where French officials demanded a huge bribe before they would allow negotiations even to begin.

George III

________ replaced Prime Minister Grenville with Lord Rockingham, who had opposed the Stamp Act.

New England

Patriots were mostly white Protestant property holders and gentry, as well as urban artisans, especially in ________.

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.

English settlers

The war was the inevitable result of colonial expansion, where ________ moved into the Ohio Valley, and the French tried to stop them by building fortified outposts.

Quebec Act

________ (grants greater liberties to Catholics, extends boundaries of Quebec Territory) further impeding westward expansion, causing further dissatisfaction among colonists.

Revolutionary War

The ________ became a war for independence with the signing of the Declaration.

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.

Alexander Hamilton

________ was concerned about no uniform commercial policy and fear for the survival of the new republic.

Federalists

________ who supported ratification of the Constitution are often the same people as ________ who favored strong federal government.

Financial plan

________ called for federal government to assume states 'debts, repay by giving debt holders land on western frontier.

Public virtue

________ had been a strictly masculine quality in the past, private virtue emerged as a very important quality for women.

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 colonies.

Goal

enumerate American grievances, develop strategy for addressing grievances, formulate colonial position on relationship between royal government and colonial governments

Three branches of government

executive, legislative, judicial