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The colonies organize to resist Britain
In order to pay debts from the french and Indian war, as well as from European wars, parliament had turned their eyes on the colonies resources. They passed several acts to collect money from them. These are a list of acts! Stamp act: this law made the citizens pay extra money on legal documents, license, news paper, pamphlet and more. Townshend acts: this law made the colonies pay more money on anything that was imported from a foreign contry. sugar act: tax on sugar! The list goes on and on. -
Boston Massacre
On march 1770, a crowd were gathered outside the custon house in Boston. After a while a group of soldiers came! Some of the arguements are that the crowded dared the soldiers to fire at them. Others said that one of the soldiers accidently felt adn released the fire arm. Either way, 5 citizens were killed by soldiers and several were wounded. -
The Boston Tea party!!
The british East India Company. which held an official monopology on tea imports, had been hit hard by the colonial boycotts. With losing more than 17million pounds of tea, the company was near bankruptcy. To save the company, noth desived teh tea act, which granted the company the right to sell tea to the colonies free of the taxes that colonial tea sellers had to pay. on the moonlit evening of december 16, 1773, The indians dumpes 18,000 pounds of the East india company's tea into the waters. -
The intolerabele Acts
King George wasn't pleased by this organized destruction of British property and he released the parliament to act. one of the laws shut down the Boston harbor because teh colonies refused to pay the damaged tea. Quatering act allows British soldiers to stay in any home or buildings. -
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and adopted by the Second Continental Congress, states the reasons the British colonies of North America sought independence in July of 1776. The declaration opens with a preamble describing the document's necessity in explaining why the colonies have overthrown their ruler and chosen to take their place as a separate nation in the world. -
Treaty of Paris
It's a treaty that confirmed U.S independence and se some boundries for the new nation. The country could now streched from the Atlantic ocean to the mississipi river and from canada to the Florida border.The treaty didn't specify when the British would evacuate their American forts. -
Shays rebellion
Shay's rebellion in 1786-1787 not only resulted in death of four rebels but also unsettled some of the nation's most intelligent leaders. Daniel Shays was angry at the government. He fought on the revolutionary war, Bunker hill adn saragota. He owned a lot of money to the government that he faced debtor's prison. Every state had State debt-ridden farmers! Would rebellion spread from Massachussetts elsewhere? Not only our private property was in danger but the new nation's reputation was too. -
Aricles of confederation
The articles of confederation was a compromise to prove to the citizens that the gorvernment can share their powers. The articles of confederation gave the national government power to dclare war, make peace adn sign treaties. the articles, also created no separated executive department to carry out and interprets laws. -
Federalism
It's basically a way of giving each part of the government their jobs. National gorvernment: declare war, create and matian armed forces, establish foreign policies. Powers reserved to the states, establish local government, provide publis safety. They also have some things in common such as raising taxes, borrow money and much more. -
Three branches of the government!
The three branches of government are Legislative, executive and judicial. The executive branch is in charge by the president and they make the laws official. The legislative branch is made of two house congress. Laws are written and discuss by congress. We also have the Judicial branch, the supreme court is the head of the judicial branch and they explain the meaning of the laws. -
Thomas Jefferson and the anti- federalist
Supporters of the constitution called themselves federalist because they wanted the new constitution's balance of powers between the states and the government. Their opponents are called anti- federalist because they were the total opposite of the federalist. -
Bill of rights
The first 10 amendments of the constituion are known as the bill of rights. They give us citizens rights that protects us from the gorvernment and from each other. It contains what we can and cannot do. it's call a living document because we follow it everyday. -
George Washington becomes President and creates the cabinet.
He created secretery of state, treasury, war, attorney general and postmaster general. And he appointed them to different people -
Two party system
It's two parties that supports different point of views. One is the republic and the other one is democratic.
