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26 Cards in this Set
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Connecticut Assembly
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Expanded Massachusetts to Georgia's powers to taxation and expenditure
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Great Awakening
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a strong moral component that led to the most popularly appealed type of govt. in the U.S. but was not understood by the British
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Proclamation of 1763
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did not allow settlersw to expand thus making them mad at the army that blocked them
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Navigation Acts
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said we could not trade with other countries
you could not travel basically anywhere without legal documents |
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Stamp Act of 1765
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aimed to get 60,000 pounds a year out of America by having us buy seals and stamps to make legal documents legal
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Virginia house of Burgesses
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said that Virginia can tax itself but also any attempt to collect stamp revenues was ilegal and unconstitutional in America
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Declatroy Act
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told of parliaments complete rule over the colonies and their allies the mervchants told them to stay out
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Townshend revenue Acts of 1767
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put duties on paper, glass, apint, lead and tea
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Tea Act of 1773
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called for the payment of taxes that would cost Americans more for tea
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Coercive Acts
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1. Closed Boston Harbor until tea was payed for 2. Changed the Massachusetts govt. to an appointed one 3. trasfered arrested British officials back to Britain to be tried 4. guartered troops wherever needed
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Second Continental Congress
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delegates formed a continental army whose General was George Washington
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1775 Prohibitory Act
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delcared war on American Commerce the British tried to stir up the pot and get rebellion against America
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Win at Saratoga
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the battle that won the support of France and the respect of England because they now knew we were a force to be dealt with
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Society of the Cincinnatie
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a hereditary organization in which membership was passed from father to son - Republicans believe it went against the claim of privilege by noble birth
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Articles of Confederation
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government that many people regarded as powerless. Established central govt. denied congress the power of taxation. Provided for a single legislative body consisting of representatives selected annualy by state legislatures. Had disposition of vast, unserveyed territory west of Appalachians.
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Northwest Ordinance
Land Ordinacne of 1785 |
Recommending the 10 new states be carved out of the western lands located north of the Ohio River
serveyors makred off townships - $1 per acre |
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Nationalists
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Hamilton, Madison, Morris, came up with a plan to save Confederation -tax colonies
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Madison's federal system
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was not a small state writ large; it was a government based on the will of the eople yet detached from their narroly based demands
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Virginia Assembly
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Madison and freinds convened to explor the creation of a unified system of commercial regulations
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Shay's rebllion
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involved several thousand impoverished farmers - shattered the peace of western Mass
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Philidalphia Convention
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delegats decuded ti vite by state, but in order to avoid the kinds of problems tha had plagued the Conffederation, ruled key proposlas needed the support of only a majority instead of 9 states required under the Articles
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Virginia PLan
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revised sections of the Articles, also envisioned a national legislature consisting of 2 houses, one elected by the people, the other chosen by the first house from nominations made by state assemblies
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New Jersey PLan
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retained the unicameral legislature in which each state possessed one vote and that at the same time gave Congress extensive new power to tax and regulate trade. Plan was rejected
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Grand Committee
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one person from each state was elected by the convention to resolve persistent differenced between the large and small states. Created a strong central govt.
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Federalists
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stood for a confederation of states rather than for the creation of supreme national authority. Natural aristocrats, individuals possessing greater insights, skills, and training than did the ordinary citizen
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Antifederalists
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Critics of Constitution, tended to be somewhat poorer, less urban, and less well educated that their opponents (spoke the language of the Commonwealth men) demanded direct contact with their presentatives
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