apush period 3

French & Indian War: 11 years

• initially british were doing bad

• established albany congress —> albany plan of union

• british won, signed peace of paris

• louisana was given 2 spain

• british doubled land in north america

• colonists pushed westward —> conflicts w indians

• royal proclamation of 1763: forbade colonists from taking land in the ohio river valley

• war = expensive, running colonies was expensive —> debt

Taxation w/o Rep:

• taxed the colonies to pay the war

• salutary neglect:

• navigation acts:

• quartering act of 1765: colonists were responsible 4 feeding & housing soldiers

• sugar act: taxes on coffee & wine

• stamp act congress:

• townshend acts: taxes on items imported 2 the colonies

• boston massacre: boys & young men harrassed soldiers —> led to shots —> 11 colonists wounded & 4 dead

• boston tea party: in response 2 the tea act & dumped british tea into the harbor

• coercive acts: closed the harbor until the tea was payed for

• intolerable acts:

• continental congress: believed in natural rights, social contract, separation powers

• common sense by thomas payne: believed independence from britain was the only option

• declaration of independence:

• loyalists: didn’t want to separate from britain

American Revolution:

• george washington:

• battle of saratoga: french allied americans

• battle of yorktown: britain surrendered

• articles confederation:

• northwest ordinance of 1787: provided plan 4 how unformed territories could be used & applied 2 the union & abolished slavery in northwest

• shays rebellion: angry farmers, displayed weaknesses of articles of confederation

• federalists: urban, commercial, central gov.

• anti-federalists: rural, liked states having power

• virginia plan: representation by population, favored big states

• new jersey plan: states should be represented equally, favored small states

• the great compromise: split gov into 3 branches, house of rep & senate

• 3/5 compromise: counted up enslaved ppl and took 3/5 of that

• federalist papers:

• bill of rights:

• desire to find american culture:

• republican motherhood:

• george washington = president, john adams = vice president

• national bank

• elastic clause: congress has the right to make any law necessary & proper

• whiskey rebellion:

• xyx affair:

• alien (made it legal & easy 2 deport any non-citizen aimed @ irish & scottish) & sedition acts (made it illegal to criticize the gov publicly)

• virginia & kentucky resolutions: any law deemed unconstitutional can be nullified by the states

• indian trade & intercourse act

• pickney treaty: decided where the border between us & spain was

• african methodist episcopal church