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| Early representative legislature in Massachusetts that exiled Anne Hutchinson |
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| Founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, described Massachusetts as being a "city upon a hill" |
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| Given to proprietors because King Charles II owed them for their support of his cause in the English Civil Wars, NY, NJ, PENN |
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| Leisler captured NY Harbor after hearing of Glorious Revolution but was screwed over |
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| Acts put into place by British to promote mercantilism, restricted trade, enumerated goods |
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| Believed in the doctrine of the Inner Light, rejected formal ministry, held meetings at which any member may speak |
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| System in New England, let people who were born of baptized parents be baptized even if parents weren't saints, lessened Puritan power |
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| British upset over colonists disobeying navigation acts, made super-state with NE, NY, NJ |
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| In Virginia Nathaniel Bacon wanted to keep raiding Indians, Governor Berkeley called him back but Bacon drove Berkeley out of Virginia |
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| 17th Century intellectual movement, moved away from faith toward science, influenced by John Locke and Descartes and Benjamin Franklin |
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| Religious revitalization movement, focused on emotion, revivalist preachers included Johnathan Edwards and George Whitefield |
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| Albany New York: representatives from 7 colonies met 150 Iroquois chiefs, to try to secure the support of Iroquois in fighting French, and to form a colonial alliance proposed by Benjamin Franklin |
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| Known as Seven Years' War, French expansion into British Ohio River Valley led to conflict, William Pitt promised money |
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| legal document that enabled British officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled |
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| British Act in 1765: all official documents had to have a British stamp, internal tax |
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| imposed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported into the colonies, eventually all but tea tax repealed, named after Chancellor Townshend |
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| Britain taxed tea to save East India Company, colonists began to boycott, led to Boston Tea Party |
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| pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775–76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| After Lexington, John Dickinson created Olive Branch Petition and second congress created a continental army led by Washinton |
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| Turning point in war, General Horatio Gates beat General John Burgoyne, convinced French that Americans could win |
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| signed on September 3, 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War between Great Britain on one side and the United States of America and its allies on the other. |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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| First written Constitution of US, Congress could make treaties and send representatives but not levy taxes and regulate commerce |
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| Instigated by Robert Morris and Alexander Hamilton. Secretly persuaded officers to threaten coup d'etat to help pass tax act. Put down by George Washington |
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| Allowed states into Union. After 5000 adult males lived there they created a legislature to pass laws. After population reached 60,000 voters created a constitution which Congress would ratify |
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| 1786 and 1787 by American farmers against state and local enforcement of tax collections and judgments for debt. Led by Daniel Shay trying to shut down courts in Massachusetts |
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| idea linked to republicanism that elevated the role of women. It gave them the role as the keepers of the nation's conscience rootsfrom the idea that a citizen should be to his country as a mother is to her child. |
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| James Madison wrote eighty-five letters written to newspapers in the late 1780s to urge ratification of the U.S. Constitution. |
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| Group that opposed ratification of Constitution. Included James Winthrop, made up mainly of farmers |
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| First 10 Amendments to the Constitution that limited government power and protected the rights of the individual |
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| Congress created a Supreme Court but also created individual federal district courts which kept the opposition quite |
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| Federal Naturalization Law of 1790 |
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| First rules of the U.S. to grant natural citizenship, people could become citizens if they had "good moral character" and had lived in U.S for two years, only applied to free whites |
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| Plan to address the revolutionary war debt, proposal to charter a bank, & recommendation for government to promote industry. |
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| said that Britain was to pay for Americans ships that were seized in 1793. It said that Americans had to pay British merchants debts owed from before the revolution and Britain had agreed to remove their troops from the Ohio Valley, no mention of impressment |
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| Spain recognized U.S. borders at the Mississippi and the 31st parallel (the northern border of Florida, granted Americans the right to deposit goods for transshipment at New Orleans. |
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| Popular uprising of Whiskey distillers in southwestern Pennsylvania in opposition to an excise tax on Whiskey from Hamilton, put down by Washington |
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| Adams sent delegates to meet with French foreign minister Talleyrand in the hopes of working things out. Talleyrand's three agents told the American delegates that they could meet with Talleyrand only in exchange for a very large bribe. |
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| Democratic Republican candidates Jefferson and Burr tie with 73 electoral votes each (Federalist candidate Adams gets 65); tie goes to House of Representatives; Hamilton hated Burr more, went to House and got more votes for Jefferson; |
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| Acts signed by Adams increased the waiting period of immigrants to 14 years and made it possible to deport Aliens with no evidence, people couldn't criticize government |
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| Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions |
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| These stated that a state had the right to declare a law unconstiutional, or nullify a law, within its borders. These were written by Jefferson and Madison to resist the Alien and Sedition Acts |
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| Marbury wanted to be in office, supreme court first asserted the power of Judicial review and discovered that it was unconstitutional for congressional statue to expand the Court's original jurisdiction. |
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| The U.S., under Jefferson, bought the Louisiana territory from France, under the rule of Napoleon, in 1803. The U.S. paid $15 million for the Louisiana Purchase |
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| Lewis and Clark Expedition |
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| 1804-1806 - Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were commissioned by Jefferson to map and explore the Louisiana Purchase region. Beginning at St. Louis, Missouri, helped by Sacajawea |
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| Georgia legislature bribed by land companies from 1795 to 1803 by selling large tracts of land to insiders at low prices. |
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| Chesapeake-Leopard Affair |
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| British ship Leopard attacked US Navy ship Chesapeake and seized deserters, enraged country but Jefferson went for peace |
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| Forbade American ships from leaving the US, designed to make British and France accept US neutrality but failed because it hurt the economy and sucked |
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| Shawnee chief who, along with his brother, Tenskwatawa, a religious leader known as The Prophet, worked to unite the Northwestern Indian tribes. The league of tribes was defeated by an American army led by William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811. |
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| Ended the War of 1812 and restored the status quo. For the most part, territory captured in the war was returned to the original owner. It also set up a commission to determine the disputed Canada/U.S. border. |
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| Economic program advanced by Henry Clay that included support for a national bank, high tariffs, and internal improvements; emphasized strong role for federal government in the economy. |
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| New England merchants who opposed the Embargo and other trade restriction, and the War of 1812. They proposed some Amendments to the Constitution and advocated the right of states to nullify federal laws. Destroyed Federalist party |
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| The Treaty demilitarized the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain, where many British naval armaments and forts still remained, and laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the US and British North America |
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