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A territorial fight for control of the Ohio River Valley region.
Significant cause: Access to trade routes and control, and alliances with Native Americans
Significant Effect: Large land gain for British but ultimately upset colonists due to new frontier policy -
Native American revolt following French and Indian war.
Significant Cause: Resentment from Native groups because British policies were less accommodating to them
Significant Effect: Led to Britain's Proclamation of 1763, which stated that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains -
It created a boundary line between the British colonies and Native American territory, using the Appalachian Mountains as the boundary.
Significant cause: did not want more tension with Native groups past Appalachian mountains
Significant effect: intense anger among the British American colonists and was a significant cause of the American Revolution -
A new tax that said all American colonists were required to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
Significant cause: Economic burden of French and Indian war
Significant effect: Major boycott of British goods and desire for revolution -
The declaratory act stated that Parliament could make laws controlling the colonies in all cases.
Significant cause: assert the authority of the British government to tax over colonists after repeal of Stamp Act.
Significant effect: gave complete control back to Britain -
A law set by the British Parliament, giving all control of the trade and delivery of tea to the East India Tea Company.
Significant cause: gave a monopoly on tea to a British supported company
Significant effect: helped British parliament get out of debt -
Demonstrators poured our tea in the Boston Harbor as a means of protest.
Significant cause: the tea act
Significant effect: the intolerable acts and more harsh regulations -
Meeting of delegates from all 13 colonies to discuss recent grievances of the colonists.
Significant cause: response to the British intolerable acts
Significant effect: boycotting of British goods to get parliament to resend the intolerable acts -
Meeting to discuss military approach, form the continental army, and drafted the olive branch petition
Significant cause: rising violence from British soldiers
Significant effect: increase in sentiment towards revolution -
It was an official act taken by all 13 American colonies in declaring independence from British rule.
Significant cause: more and more colonists became convinced that Parliament intended to take away their freedom
Significant effect: united colonists towards freedom and revolution -
First governing document of the United States.
Significant cause: newfound freedom and a need for relaxed government regulation
Significant effect: constitution and new laws to control states better -
Ended the American Revolution and formally recognized the United States as an independent nation.
Signifcant cause: American revolution and war
Significant effect: made the 13 colonies a unified, recognized country -
A law that allowed Congress to divide the Northwest Territory into smaller territories, describe how they were governed, and the stages they had to go through to become states.
Significant cause: desire for westward expansion
Significant effect: provided a method for admitting new states into the union -
A conference held in Philadelphia where state delegates met to frame the United States Constitution.
Significant cause: failure of the Articles of Confederation
Significant effect: established the government system of checks and balances we still follow today -
A document describing the three chief branches of the Federal Government and their jurisdictions, and lays out the basic rights of citizens of the United States.
Significant cause: the need for an effective governing document
Significant effect: set into place policies for power and regulation in the country -
Ratification by 9 of the 13 states enacted the new government into place.
Significant cause: the new government supported the principles of separation of powers, checks and balances, and federalism, but needed to be approved
Significant effect: made the Constitution a real document that could be changed with enough support from the right people -
A formal announcement issued by President George Washington declaring the United States a neutral nation in the conflict between Great Britain and France
Significant cause: conflict in Europe in which the U.S. was in debt to France
Significant effect: Washington felt that the U.S. was not prepared to enter another war and that it was important for the country to insist on its own national identity. -
Uprising of farmers from Pennsylvania in protest of what they saw as unfair taxation
Significant cause: taxes on whiskey
Significant effect: Washington showed that the federal government had the strength to enforce its law -
An important treaty between the United States and Great Britain that helped ease tension between the two nations.
Significant cause: worked to settle remaining issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence
Significant effect: maintained peace between the two nations and preserved U.S. neutrality -
It granted American control of the Mississippi River as well as transport through the port of New Orleans, then under Spanish control.
Significant cause: desire for access to the port of New Orleans
Significant effect: established new borders with Spanish powers -
Washington's final speech that cautioned Americans to not form political parties, and remain neutral
Significant cause: Washington's decision to not serve for a third term
Significant effect: Set a precedent for how long presidents should be in power -
The XYZ affair was the negotiation between French and American forces when French forces began stealing American boats and supplies.
Significant cause: failed negotiations with France
Significant effect: Quasi-war and poor relations with France -
These acts were drastic laws put into place by federalists to limit the power of anti-federalists in the upcoming elections.
Significant cause: federalists determination to gain control of the country
Significant effect: distrust of federalists nationally -
The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions were steps taken to counteract the alien and sedition acts by anti-federalists who wanted there are states to be able to nullify acts they felt were unconstitutional.
Significant cause: alien and sedition acts
Significant effect: attempted to establish the practice of being able to declare acts of federal government as unconstitutional. -
The election in which two democratic republican nominees got the same number of electoral votes and came head to head with Hamilton being their deciding factor ultimately Jefferson beat Burr and became president.
Significant cause: tension between the two parties and desire for control of the country
Significant effect: effective and peaceful change in power