Mt. Vernon Conference

1785

Delegators meet at George washington's home, it was the first leading to the constitutional convention.

Annapolis Convention
1786

New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Virgina called for a constituional convention. 12 delegaters from this states meet up at Annapolis Maryland to discuss this issues.

"The Framers"

• Wrote the constitution
• men from the 13 original colonies
• meet at the constitutional convention

Checks and Balances

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Limit the power to a single individual or body of goverment.  The main idea to seperations of power where power is divided into 3 branches. The 3 branches check on each other.

Virgina Plan

1787

James Madison drafted the plan, in which it set forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature.

New Jersey Plan

1787

The proposal  at the contitution convention,  proposing  two house of congress elected acording to the populations states. 

The  Great Compromise

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Agrement between the large and small states, in which it defined the legislative and repesinative structure of each state. 

Connecticut Plan

Also seen as the great compermise

3/5 Compromise

1787

Agremment between the  Northern and Southern states, stating that slaves would count as 3/5    a  person when counting the population. 

Commercial compromise

1790

The Commercial Compromise allowed Congress to 

regulate interstate and foreign commerce, including placing tariffs(taxes) on foreign imports, but it prohibited placing taxes on any exports. This is because the northern states wanted the central government to regulate interstate commerce and foreign trade. The South was afraid that export taxes would be put on agricultural products such as tobacco and rice.

Electoral collage

Consists of the electors appointed by each state who formally elect the President and Vice President of the United States.

Federalist

People that supported the constitution, and its a party

Anti-Federlist

Did not support the constitution 

was a political group that was driven  by there on ideas aginst federlist 

The Federlist papers

Papers written Specialy to New York, to Pruesed the Constitution

Bill of Rights

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National Debt

Tariffs; Excise taxes

An excise or excise tax (sometimes called a duty of excise special tax) is commonly understood to refer to an inland tax on the sale, or production for sale, of specific goods; or, more narrowly, as a tax on a good produced for sale, or sold, within a country or licenses for specific activities. Excises are distinguished from customs duties, which are taxes on importation. Excises are inland taxes, whereas customs duties areborder taxes.

Proclamation of Neutrality

Is a formal announcement issued by United States President George Washington on April 22, 1793, declaring the nation neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. It threatened legal proceedings against any American providing assistance to warring countries. The Proclamation led to the Neutrality Act of 1794.

Jay Treaty 

1794

The Treaty eliminated British control of western posts within two years, established America's claim for damages from British ship seizures, and provided America a limited right to trade in the West Indies.

Pinckney Treaty

1795

Established intentions of friendship between the United States and spain, defined the boundaries of the United States with the Spanish colonies and guaranteed the United States navigation rights on theMississippi River. The treaty's full title is Treaty of Friendship, Limits, and Navigation Between Spain and the United States. Thomas Pinckney negotiated the treaty for the United States and Don Manuel de Godoy represented Spain. Among other things, it ended the first phase of the West Florida Controversy, a dispute between the two nations over the boundaries of the Spanish colony of West Florida.

Right of Deposit

Battle of Fallen Timbers 

The final battle of the Northwest Indian War, a struggle between American Indian tribes affiliated with the Western Confederacy and the United States for control of the Northwest Territory (an area bounded on the south by the Ohio River, on the west by the Mississippi River, and on the northeast by the Great Lakes). The battle, which was a decisive victory for the United States, ended major hostilities in the region until Tecumseh's War and the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811.

Whiskey Rebellion 

Public Land Act 

1796

Democratic Republican Party

The Democratic-Republican Party or Republican Party was an American political party founded in the early 1790s by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Political scientists use the former name, while historians prefer the latter one; contemporaries generally called the party the "Republicans", along with many other names. In a broader sense the party was the concrete realization of Jeffersonian democracy.

Washington's Farewell Address

XYZ Affair 

The XYZ Affair was a 1798 diplomatic episode during the administration of John Adams that Americans interpreted as an insult from France. It led to an undeclared naval war called the Quasi-War, which raged at sea from 1797 to 1800. The Federalist Party took advantage of the national anger to build an army and pass the Alien and Sedition Acts to damage the rival Democratic Republican Party.^[1]

Alien and Sedition Acts

Revolution 0f 1800

James Madison

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Alexander Hamilton 

Gouverneru Morris

Henry Knox

secratery  of war

Edmund Randolph

John  Jay

John Adams

Thomas Jefferson

Edmond Genet

Patrick Henry 

Richard Henry Lee

Commander and had the idea of independence for amrica

Kentucky and verginia 

Resolutions