Foundations of American History
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| Electoral College | show 🗑
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| Anti-Federalist | show 🗑
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| show | Written by Madison in response to the fears of a federal government coming under the control of one powerful fraction- it said that because US was so big no single faction could control the government.
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| show | Papers written by Federalists in attempts to get supporters to ratify the Constitution.
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| Election of 1789 | show 🗑
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| show | Belief that the government can do anything that the Constitution does not prohibit
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| show | Unrest in 1794 caused by opposition to a tax on whiskey
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| show | Officer in the War for Independence; delegate to the Constitutional Convention; Federalist and first Secretary of the Treasury
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| show | The act created a national court system with three circuit courts and thirteen district courts, all headed by the Supreme Court. It also said that the Supreme Court would settle differences between state and federal laws
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| Townshend Act | show 🗑
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| show | Person who remained loyal to Great Britain during the Revolution
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| Battle of Saratoga | show 🗑
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| Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | Third President of the United States, 1801-1809, main author of the Declaration of Independence; a firm believer in the people an d decentralize power; reduced the federal government
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | show 🗑
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| show | Submitted by Edmund Randolph, it called for the creation of bicameral national legislature. Each state would send a representative in proportion to the number of its citizens.
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| Executive Branch | show 🗑
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| 3/5th Compromise | show 🗑
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| show | A crop that is in constant demand, such as cotton, wheat or rice
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| Middle Passage | show 🗑
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| Charles II | show 🗑
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| show | Wealthy class
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| French and Indian War | show 🗑
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| show | First President of the United States 1789-1797 led American forces in war
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| Proclamation of 1763 | show 🗑
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| show | The act that denied “Taxation without representation” to the Americans, claiming that Britain had the final say
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| show | An anti-stamp act group, founded by Samuel Adams
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| show | Acts created to punish Boston in 1774, known as the Coercive Acts. Limited town meetings to once a year, suspended Massachusetts general court.
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| show | Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in January 1776, which called for American Independence from Britain
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| Conquistador | show 🗑
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| Columbus | show 🗑
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| show | Certificate of permission given by the government
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| show | A lawmaking assembly
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| show | An English settlement in 1607, about 60 miles from the mouth of the James River
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| Puritan | show 🗑
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| Mayflower Compact | show 🗑
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| Salem Witch Trials | show 🗑
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| King Philip’s War | show 🗑
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| John Winthrop | show 🗑
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| William Penn | show 🗑
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| show | A colony granted by a king or queen to an individual or a group that has full governing rights
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| Mercantilism | show 🗑
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| Navigation Act | show 🗑
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| show | Mary was the Protestant daughter of James II (of England) and William was her consort, William of Orange
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| show | Religious revival in the American colonies during the 1730’s and 1740’s
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| show | A minister in Northampton, Massachusetts that is believed to have an affect on the Great Awakening
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| show | 1754 proposal by Benjamin Franklin for the creation of a grand council of representatives from Britain’s American colonies
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| show | Colonial inventor, printer, writer, statesman; contributed to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution
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| William Pitt | show 🗑
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| show | A 1765 law passed by the British Parliament that taxed newspapers, legal documents, and other printed materials in the colonies
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| show | Passed in 1764, marked the start of a new British policy designed to raise money. It cut duty on foreign molasses by half, in order to increase the amount of imported molasses
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| show | A gathering in several colonies for a meeting to plan a united response to the Intolerable Acts (became known as the First Continental Congress)
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| Tea Act | show 🗑
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| Battles of Lexington and Concord | show 🗑
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| show | Author of political pamphlets during the 1770s and 1780s; wrote Common Sense in 1776
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| show | a 1776 statement, issued by the second continental congress, explaining why the colonies wanted their independence from Britain
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| show | Revolutionary War battle in 1775 North of Boston
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| Battle of Yorktown | show 🗑
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| show | Second President of the United States, 1797-1801; worked to relieve increasing tensions with France; lost reelection bid to Jefferson in 1800 as the country moved away from Federalist policies
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| show | Plan that established in 1781, a limited national government in the United States
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| show | An uprising against taxes in Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787
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| show | An opposition to the Virginia Plan, as created by the small states (William Paterson of New Jersey), having the key features: Congress the right to tax, creation of executive and judicial branches, every state equal vote in Congress
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| show | Branch of government, made up of courts and judges, that interprets and applies the law
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| show | Of New Jersey, proposer of the New Jersey Plan
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| Edmund Randolph | show 🗑
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| Enlightenment | show 🗑
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| Baron de Montesquieu | show 🗑
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| Alexander Hamilton | show 🗑
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| show | Native Americans were required to farm for the profit of a Spaniard and in return their well being was to be ensured for
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| show | A Spanish Conquistador that conquered the Aztecs
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| Joint-Stock Company | show 🗑
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| show | Virginia legislature formed in 1619
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| John Smith | show 🗑
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| Quaker | show 🗑
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| Great Migration | show 🗑
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| show | A Native American leader
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| William Bradford | show 🗑
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| Middle Colonies | show 🗑
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| show | A Georgia trustee who wanted to make a haven for people who had been in jail in England because they could not pay their debts.
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| show | Great Britain’s policy in the early 1700’s of not interfering in the American colonies
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| show | Trade between the Americas, Europe and Africa
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| show | King of England, who attempted to take direct control over New York and New England by creating the Dominion of New England
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| Dominion of New England | show 🗑
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| show | Colonial printer arrest for libel; his land mark trial established truth as a defense against libel
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| George Whitefield | show 🗑
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| Treaty of Paris (1763) | show 🗑
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| show | Incident on March 5th, 1770, in which British soldiers in Boston killed 5 colonists
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| Pontiac’s Rebellion | show 🗑
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| show | A congress about the 1765 laws passed by British Parliament that taxed newspapers
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| show | From Massachusetts, began the Stamp Act Congress
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| 1st Continental Congress | show 🗑
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| show | Assembly of the representatives from the colonies that first met in May 1775 in Philadelphia
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| Boston Tea Party: | show 🗑
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| show | Plea by the American colonists to King George III in 1775 to halt fighting
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| Natural Rights | show 🗑
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| show | Revolutionary War battle in 1776 in New Jersey
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| show | Treaty that ended the Revolutionary War and in which Britain acknowledged American independence
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| Bill of Rights | show 🗑
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| Land Ordinance of 1785 | show 🗑
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| show | Convention that met Philadelphia in 1787 to draft the Constitution of the United States
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| Legislative Branch | show 🗑
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| show | Compromise at the Constitutional Convention calling for 2-house legislature, with one house elected on the basis of population and the other representing the states equally
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| James Madison | show 🗑
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| show | A judge from Conn., member of a committee to prepare the Declaration of Independence
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| John Locke | show 🗑
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| Federalist | show 🗑
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| John Jay | show 🗑
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| Magellan | show 🗑
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| Pizarro | show 🗑
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| show | Colony with a governor appointed by the King
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| Bacon’s Rebellion | show 🗑
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| show | English colonies that became the states of Conn, RI, Mass., Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine
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| Pilgrim | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty between Spain and US that was named after Thomas Pinckney, American diplomat, included: the southern boundary of the United States was 31, America could use the Mississippi River, Spain would control their Native Americans
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| show | Controversy in 1798 over French demands for bribes from American negotiators
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| Virginia and Kentucky Resolution | show 🗑
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| 12th Amendment | show 🗑
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