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Boston Massacre
The boston massacre was when a group of teegers / men started verbal a physical fight with the british troops or vice versa. which ended in the british troops killing five of the men. -
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American History
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The Boston Tea Party
when the colonist dumped the tea comming from britain into the harbor because the English were being unfair and taxing tea and other products way too high. -
The Intolerable Acts
because of the tea party the Parliament took actions against the colonies by creating the 5 intolerable acts which limited the power and activity of the colonist -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the aurthor of the declaration of independence and the third president of the uniteds. He favored states rights over a strong central government. he was more of a peoples person. lets put it like this...He believed that "the government that governs least, governs best". -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of independence was written on july 4th 1776,It is a paper which said that the United States is no longer ruled by Great britain -
Thomas jefferson and the anti feds
Thomas jefferson was a democrat also known as an antifederalist.
back then there was a big party called the democratic republicans but because of different political views the party had to split into 2 groups.Thomas Jefferson ran against the Federalist party candidate and became President -
Articles of confederation
a treaty among the 13 colonies on how to work together.there was no judiciary or executive branch, no power to tax, and most actions required unanimity. This failed majorly and the covention was created to fix these articles -
Treaty of paris
Basically it ended the American Revolutionary War between the Great Britain and the thirteen United States of America ( colonies). -
Shay's Rebellion
poor farmers that coudnt pay debts or taxes often resulted in imprisonment in debtor's prisons or there property being taken by the state. Daniel Shays was the one who started the rebellion -
Federalism
basically saying that that the States or Provinces in a country should be sovereign over their own territory -
Branches of government
The three branches of government are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The legislative branch:Congress and state legislatures, write the laws. The executive branch: president ,implement and enforce the laws. The judicial branch:Supreme Court and other courts, interprets the law -
Washington becomes pres and creates a cabinet
washing became president in 1789.he needed advisors so he picked only 4 with different political views Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox ,Alexander Hamilton, andEdmund Randolph -
Bill of rights
the bill of rights protects the peoples five basic freedoms ( speech, religion, and etc) it is the first 10 ammendments of the constitution. -
Alexander hamilton and his plan for creating the bank of the us
so basically after the revolutionary war the us was in debt. the whole bank idea was hamilton's plan to handle the debt and make a currency.
