American Studies Midterm Terms

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an order in which Britain prohibited its American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.

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Proclamation of 1763

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a trade law enacted by Parliament in 1764 in a attempt to reduce smuggling in the British colonies in North America.

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Sugar Act

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series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 to punish Massachusetts colonists for the Boston Tea Party.
Common Sense - pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published in 1776 that called for separation of the colonies from Britain

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Intolerable Acts

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treaty that ended the Revolutionary War, confirming the independence of the United States and setting the boundaries of the new nation.

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Treaty of Paris

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law in which Parliament established the 1st direct taxation of goods and services within the British colonies in North America.

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Stamp Act

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series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1767, establishing indirect taxes on goods imported from Britain by the British colonies in North America.

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Townsend Acts

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colonists who supported the British government during the American Revolution.

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Loyalists

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an uprising of debt - ridden Massachusetts farmers protesting increased state taxes in 1787.

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Shay’s Rebellion

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law established a procedure for the admission of new states to the union.

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Northwest Ordinance

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document adopted by the 2nd continental congress in 1777 and finally approved by the states in 1781, that outlined the form of government of the new United States.

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Articles of Confederation

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constitutional conventions agreement to establish to two-house national legislature with all states having equal representation in one house and each state having representation based on its population in the other house

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Great Compromise

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law that established the federal court system and the # of supreme Court justices and that provided for the appeal of certain state court decisions to the federal courts.

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Judiciary Act of 1789

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tax on production, sale, or consumption of the goods produced within a country.

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Excise tax

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period when Europeans being investigating all the aspects of the physical world. ( rebirth)

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Renaissance

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a system in which Spanish authorities granted colonial landlords the service of Native Americans as forces labors.

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Encomienda

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a member of one of the Puritan groups that, denying the possibility of reform within the Church of England, established their own independent congregations.

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Separatist

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an economic system in which nations seek to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.

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Mercantilism

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England relaxed its enforcement of most regulations in return for the continued economic loyalty of the colonies.

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Salutary neglect

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the belief that all people should have equal political, economic, social and civil rights.

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Egalitarianism

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provisions in the United States constitution that prevent any branch of the U.S government from dominating the other 2 branches.

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Checks & Balances

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federalists strongly support the central government and anti - federalists are strongly against supporting the central government.

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Federalists vs. Anti - Federalists

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October 17,1777, Burgoyne surrendered his battered army to General Gates.

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Battle of Saratoga

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pull down a statue of George III on the Bowling Green, New York, July 9, 1776

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Sons of Liberty