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| -General search warrants permitting custom officers to search homes and warehouses looking for smuggled goods |
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-Issued to prevent the colonists from spreading westward past the Appalachian mountains
i. Did this to create a boundary between the Native Americans and the English settlers |
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-British put a tax on all paper goods
-Imposed duties on most legal documents and publications |
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-Imposed new duties on colonial imports that colonists could legally buy only from British such as tea, paper, glass, red and white lead, and paint
-All of these were repealed except for the tariff on tea
-Committees of Correspondence-letters that formed a phone tree |
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-Parliament passes this to save British East India Company (BEIC)
-This allowed the BEIC to ship tea to America without paying the tax in Britain which makes it really cheap so they can undersell American merchants and smugglers |
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-Passed after the Boston Tea Party
-Closed the port of Boston
-Deprived people of MA their right to elect officials and hold town meeting
i. Thomas Gage is appointed military Gov. of MA (putting MA under marshal law)
-New quartering act, required people in all colonies to feed and house British soldiers
-British Soldiers accused of crimes were tried in Brit and not in America |
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| Declaration of Rights and Grievances |
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-Stated that the colonists were entitled to the Rights of Englishmen
-Only colonists can levy taxes on the colonies
i. Open to the possibility of veto by the KING only, not Parl.
-Denounced the intolerable (Coercive) Acts saying that they were unjust and unconstitutional
-Criticized the British govt. |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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-Met after the battle of Lexington and Concord in May 1775
-Pursued conflicting strategies of resistance
-Organized the continental army
-Had elected officials and later issued Washington as their Commander on June 15th |
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-Benedict Arnold vs. Brit Col St Leger, who withdraws his forces for an American victory
-Gets the French to join the American cause and becomes the turning point of the war for the Americans |
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-Wrote pamphlet of Common Sense (published in 1776)
-Attacked the monarchy and aristocracy as degenerate institutions and urged American to unite under a Republicans govt of their own |
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-Ended the American Revolution
-Brit acknowledge the independence of the 13 colonies
-Set boundaries for the new country
i. Atlantic Ocean to the East
ii. Miss River on the West
iii. Canada in the North (Disputed)
iv. Florida in the South
d. Granted American fishing privileges in Newfoundland
e. Returns Florida to Spain |
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| Articles of Confederation |
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-First written Constitution or govt plan
-Set up by the 2nd Continental Congress to provide a central govt
-Sent to states in 1777 for ratification but was not actually ratified until 1781
-Really weak central govt with only a legislative branch and no pwr to tax |
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-Developed by James Madison
-Reps. in Congress would be based on population of each state |
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| -Reps. in Congress would be equal representation |
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-An agreement to count 3/5 of the states' slaves as population for the purpose of rep and taxation
-Leads to over representation of the south in Congress |
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| -Established a supreme court with 6 members, 13 district courts, and 3 circuit courts of appeal |
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-Negotiated by Chief Justice John Jay with Great Britain
-Withdraws British troops from the NW territory
-Calls for American to pay debts to British creditors
-Compensation to American shippers for cargo and ships seized by Brit
i. Brit did not agree to stop seizing ships or impressing sailors if Am continued to trade with France |
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-Thomas Pinckney sent to negotiate a treaty with Spain
-Spain recognize Am neutrality and set border between the US and Spanish Fl on Am terms
-Most importantly it ended Spanish claims to terr in the South West and gave Am unrestricted rights to Miss River and use port of New Orleans to ship and store goods |
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-April 1793 French send Citizen Edmund Genet as minister to the US
-Girondists were the revolutionary faction that had declared the war on all monarchies and order Genet to enlist Am aid with or w/o Washington’s consent
-Genet openly commissioned Am privateers to harass British ships
i. Brits seize 250 AM ships during this time |
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| -First temporary US capital and where Washington was inaugurated |
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| -The removal of sailors from American ships by British naval officers |
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-Incident that precipitated an undeclared naval war with France when 3 French officers demanded that American emissaries pay a bribe $250,000 and $12 million for France before negotiating disputes between the two countries
-3 officials were only identified as XYZ
-Began in April 1798 Undeclared Naval War |
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-A process by which people born in a foreign country are granted full citizenship with all its Acts
-Extended the residency requirement for citizenships from 5 to 14 years
-In 1801 Thomas Jefferson repealed the Act and set citizenship requirement back to 5 years |
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| -President could deport or imprison “dangerous” aliens at will |
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| -Set jail terms and fines for people that advocated disobedience to federal law or who wrote printed or spoke false scandalous or malicious statements against the US or the president |
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| Kentucky & Virginia Resolutions |
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-Response to the Alien and Sedition Acts
-Written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
-Declared that the Acts violated the 1st amendment and
-that the national govt powers were not mentioned in the const and that the 10th amendment reserves the power for the state legislature to nullify federal laws that were deemed unconstitutional |
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-Form of govt in which sovereign power resides in the electorate
-Sovereign power is exercised by elected reps that are responsible to the people
-The US is not a democracy it is a democratic republic |
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| Chesapeake-Leopard Affair |
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-Set off huge anti-British demonstrations in the sea port towns and angry cries for war throughout the country
-President Jefferson responded by barring British ships from Am ports and Am territorial waters and by ordering state Gov to prepare to call up 100,000 militiamen
-British stop Am battle ship, sovereign US territory, Cap Baron for Chesapeake Cap Humphries on Leopard.
-Am refused to give any sailors to British, so British Leopard fires on the Chesapeake destroying her hull and then British re-board and take 4 American sailors one of which was a British deserter |
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-Forbid all international trade to and from American ports (enacted by President Thomas Jefferson)
-Was not very effective and killed New England economy
-helped the British more than it hurt them |
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-Article 1
-Power allowing Congress to make all laws necessary and proper to perform all its duties
-Stretched beyond what it is expressly stated in the Constitution |
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-**Article 1 Section 10 Clause 1
-States may not pass any law impairing the obligations of contracts, must abide by the original contract |
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-**Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3
-Congress shall have exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among states |
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-Ardent nationalists who wanted to declare war on England to protect US rights
-Through intellectual power they win control of Congress
-Led by Henry Clay and John C Calhoun, Clay elected speaker of the house
-1811-1812 led Congress into war with British to defend serenity and western territory maritime rights of the US |
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-US Navy commander that burns down the USS Philadelphia after it was captured by the Tripolians
-Captain of the USS United States and defeated the HMS Macedonia
-Captures 4 British ships during the War of 1812
-Captain of the USS President which loses to the HMS Daphne, Eliza Swan, and Alert |
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