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Hist 151 test 2
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11/03/2011

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Seven Years War/ French and Indian War
Definition
Washington made Fort Necessity (lost it)French wanted the Ohio Valley to connect Canada and Lousiana, ended in treaty of Paris
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Treaty of Paris 1763
Definition
Ended French and Indian War/ Seven Years War, Got French out of N Am, Indians cant play Brits and French against eachother
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Tories
Definition
Favor king
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Whigs
Definition
against king
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George Grenville
Definition
Brit Exchequor (treasurer) responsible for stamp, tea,currency tax
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Sugar Act
Definition
tax on sugar, part of grenville acts
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vice admiralty courts
Definition
enforce brit taxes, not judged by own peers, rule in favor of crown
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Patrick Henry
Definition
Opposed Grenvilles taxes. Said states (virginia house of burgesses) can tax their state, not brits
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Virginia Resolves
Definition
Patrick Henrys attemp to stop brit taxes
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Stamp Act Congress
Definition
Supported Henrys Virginia Resolves
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Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Definition
Spread opposition to Grenvilles acts
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regulators
Definition
target colonial elites, fail to stop slave revolts, lead to stronger nat. gov
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declaritory acts
Definition
end stamp, currency, and sugar acts
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Townshend Revenue Act
Definition
tea, glass, paper, lead, paint tax
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Boston Massacre
Definition
5 People killed in Boston by Regulars
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Committee of Corrispondence
Definition
call for boycott of brits after boston massacre, spread enthuasism for indipendence
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Tea Act
Definition
Tax on tea to help the East Indian Trading Co.
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Boston Tea Party
Definition
Dumped tea into boston harbor as protest to tea acts (SoL)
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Coercive (Intollerable) acts
Definition
1.Closed Boston Harbor until Boston pay for tea
2. eliminated the elected officials
3. Quartering Act
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Continental Congress
Definition
governing body during revolution
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Lord Dunmore Proclamation
Definition
Promised slaves freedom to fight for Brit
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Common Sence
Definition
Thomas Paine wrote to envoke feelings for revolution
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Yorktown
Definition
Ends fighting with fall of Cornwalace
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pennsylvania act
Definition
gradual abolition
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NW Ordiances
Definition
bluepront for territories entering union
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shays rebellion
Definition
mass. farmers revolt over foreclosed land
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const convention
Definition
draft const in phili
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Virginia Plan
Definition
Madison- bicameral, proportional rep
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NJ Plan
Definition
William Paterson. unicameral, = representation
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federalist papers
Definition
Jay-Madison-Hamilton promote const
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Judiciary act 1789
Definition
create supreme court, allow appeals from lower courts
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bill of rights
Definition
first 10 amends
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alexander hamilton
Definition
broad interpretation throught necessary and proper clause
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Thomas Jefferson
Definition
strick interpretation, states rights, republican, anti federalist
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assumption plan
Definition
Hamilton said Fed Gov should take over states debts from rev war
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bank of US
Definition
allow for universal currency and repay states debts
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samual slater
Definition
new production of textiles using hydropower
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Treaty of greenville
Definition
Set boundry for western expansion
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whiskey rebellion
Definition
Excise tax rebellion
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citizen genet
Definition
Frenchman sent to US toget help for Brit-French war
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Jay Treaty
Definition
restart trade with brits after rev war
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John Adams
Definition
1st VP 2nd Pres, federalist, support Alien and Sedition Acts
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quasi war
Definition
French capture US ships trading with Brit
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XYZ Affair
Definition
French diplomats want bribe to end quasi war
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alien and sedition acts
Definition
deportation of aliens and ppl could not speak down about gov
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Kentucky and Virginia resolution
Definition
states nullify alien and sedition acts
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2ns great awakening
Definition
temporance
Term
the Shawnee prophet
Definition
brother os techumsah, spiritual and political leader of shawnee
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richard allen
Definition
minister of first black methodist church
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Toussaint L'Ouvertune
Definition
leader of revolution in Hatai against napoleon
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gabriel's rebellion
Definition
slave rebellion
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John Marshall
Definition
supreme court judge who heard marbury v madison
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marbury v madison
Definition
COINED the use of judicial review and checks and balances
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corps of discovery
Definition
lewis and clark find a waterway across continent
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chesapeak affair
Definition
brits try to search US ship, US refused, 1 man hung, others impressed
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embargo of 1807
Definition
illegal for US ships to trade with beligerant ports, Hurt US
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war of 1812
Definition
w/ Brits over impressment, didnt win anything except national recognition, status quo antebellum
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status quo antebellum
Definition
things back the way they were
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