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"Seven Years War" The French and Indian War was a conflict between Britain and France over their land in North America.
Cause: Conflicting claims between Great Britain and France over North American territory and waterways
Effect: France gave up its North American territory to the British -
The Pontiac Rebellion was a series of battles between the British and Native Americans, the goal was to drive British east and back over Appalachia.
Causes: Due to the French and Indian War, Britain had control of the entire region, and they did not treat Native Americans with the diplomacy that the French did.
Effects: Proclamation Line of 1763 -
A British produced boundary in the Appalachian Mountains
Cause: Mainly caused by the Pontiac Rebellion of 1763
Effects: Prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French after the French and Indian War -
Required colonists to pay a tax represented by a stamp on various forms of papers; wills, newspapers, pamphlets and playing cards
Cause: British were in debt, they needed money
Effect: precipitated the formation of the Continental Congress -
Reinforced a tea tax on the American colonies
Cause: British were in debt, and needed money
Effect: The Boston Tea Party -
In protest of the tea act, demonstrators in Boston threw British tea into the ocean, which angered the British government
Cause: the tea act
Effect: motivated revolutionary causes -
Convention hosted in Philadelphia, it's purpose was for colonies to respond to Britain's threats to their liberties
Cause: the continued taxation by the British
Effect: The articles of confederation -
Congress was divided- one group of delegates, mainly from New England, thought the colonies should declare their independence. Another group, mainly middle colonies, hoped to resolve conflict by negotiating a new relationship with Great Britain
Cause: First continental congress
Effect: The declaration of independence -
Replaced the stamp act. Parliament had the right to tax and make laws for colonies in all cases
Cause: to assert British dominance over North America
Effect: caused conflict between colonists and British government. -
Declaration that began the revolutionary war, stating the principles of an American society
Cause: Unfair treatment and taxation by the British
Effect: The revolutionary war -
The first constitution of the US, officially established a sovereign national government
Cause: Winning the Revolutionary war and the treaty of Paris
Effect: created tension within states, ultimately resulted in the creation of the new constitution -
Ended the revolutionary war, Britain promised to recognize the existence of the US as an independent nation.
Cause: The revolutionary war, and all that led up to that
Effect: The United States became an independent nation. -
For four months, 55 delegates from several states met to frame a Constitution for a federal republic
Cause: The failures of the Articles of Confederation
Effect: The creation of the Constitution and a Constitutional government -
Established guide lines for statehood
Cause: States were being blocked from expanding westward
Effect: One of the only successful acts of the Articles of Confederation. -
when the state governments voted to approve the Constitution and it officially became the law
Cause: The Constitutional Convention
Effect: A society based on one constitution -
Outlined the structure of America's federal government, 3 branches; judicial, executive and legislative
Cause: Constitutional convention following the independence of the United States
Effect: A constitutional federal government -
Declaration of neutrality of America in the ongoing conflicts between Britain and Frances resulting from the French Revolution
Cause: Washington and Hamilton believed that America had too much debt to fight in another countries war-they were too young.
Effect: Created tension surrounding foreign policy, while keeping the US out of a war they were not prepared for. -
A protest and rebellion against a tax on whiskey that turned violent
Cause: Alexander Hamilton proposed an excise tax on whiskey
Effect: enforced the idea that the new government had the right to levy a tax that would impact citizens in all states. -
Treaty that resolved tensions between foreign relations between the U.S and Britain
Causes: French Revolution and the American Revolution
Effects: Created peaceful relationship between Britain and the U.S. while the French were fighting their war -
Settled a dispute between America and Spain over boundaries of Spanish Florida, and granted navigation rights on the Mississippi River to Americans
Cause: Spain wanted to avoid conflict and alliance with Britain and the U.S.
Effect: U.S. navigation of the Mississippi River -
Address given by Washington as he left office, urging against permanent alliances political parties/ sectionalism
Cause: The safety in maintaining the constitution
Effect: Washington didn't run for a third term in office -
French agents attempted to get a bribe and loans from US diplomats in exchange for an agreement that French privateers would no longer attack American ships.
Cause: Mainly Jay's Treaty
Effect: led to an undeclared war between France and U.S. -
Passed in preparation for an anticipated war with France, tightened restrictions on foreign-born Americans and limited speech critical of the government
Cause: maintain federalist power
Effect: Made it illegal for Americans to "print, utter, or publish … " anything bad about US government -
The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the federal Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional
Cause: The Alien and Sedition Acts
Effect: helped to establish precedence that you could declare acts of the federal government as constitutional -
Thomas Jefferson beat John Adams and Aaron Burr
Cause: Adams accuses opponent of seeking constitutional changes
Effect: Creation of the twelfth amendment, requiring separate electoral votes for the president and the vice president.