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Boston Massacre
A group of colonist turned in to a mob and tuaghted the british troops and soon led to the death of five colonist Crispus Attuck came to see an armed clash out bursted and he died as well dispite how both political atmospheres relaxed for over the last two years another aout brake occurred in rhode island
between colonist and british troops again.
betweebn the colonist and the troops it was at first a fist fight over jobs and then five colonist were killed -
Boston Tea Party
a large group of rebels from boston disguised them sevles as the indians and bumped 18000 pounds of tea in the boston harbor.
the cause of them bumping the tea in the boston harbor was because of the tax on tea that they had to pay.
the tea act would cut colonial merchants from tea trade because the indian company in the east could sell tea for less
for less money. with this the north hoped hat the protest would not be violent. -
Intolerable Acts by King George
It was a bunch of laws passed by ing george,one of them being shutting down the boston harbor because the colonist refused to pay for the tea that was damaged.
Another law was the quartering act which would have british troops housed in thecolonist homes.
In addition he appointed the general of the british army govenor of massachuetts. -
Thomas Jefferson
He was virginian lawyer before he did politics and was chosen to express the commitees point.
He recived his ideas of agovernment from the man John Locke who ensured rights to the people.
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Declaration of Independence
It drew on the concept of John Locke,and ensured that the people would have natural rights to liberty, and also life.
on july 2 1776 voted that the american colonist were free.
on july 4 1776 the declaration was adopted by the united states of america and was read to the people in the independence hall. -
Articles of Confederation
Where the two levels of government share fundemental power.
This gave the government the power to declare war make peace and also sign treaties.
the articles did not show no sepatare executive system to enforce the meaning of the laws. -
treaty of paris
delegates of the united states signed a treaty a france confirm the independence of the united states.
this aloud the united states to strectch from thye atlantic to mississipi river, from canada to the floridaian border.
the traety didn't say when the british would leave the fortress. -
Shays's Rebellion
Every state in the new nation had debt to pay off adn with this debt they ridden farmers.
with the rebellion in massachusetts and would spread from the state to other it would not just put land in danger it would put the nations reputation in danger as well.
fearing the nation would fall apart and be at war again george washington put the issue out there. -
federalism
It divided the powers from national government and the state government from each other.
The national government had control of many things in the US some of them being foreign affairs, national defense, interstate trade, coin money.
states were known as reserved power and they had control over marriage laws, trade in the state. -
Thomas Jefferson and the anti-federalist's
The anti-federalist were a group of those who opposed having a stron central government.
They also opposed the constitution becuase of the lack of human rights that was not included in the constitution.
They kept the their arguement going until they got the bill of rights which would protect those individuals rights. -
three branches of government
To limit the power of the national government they created three branches of governnment they were the legislative, judicial, and the executive branch.
with the fear that one branch would over power the other they made the checks and balances system where it limited the power of each branch of government.
the legislative was to make the laws and they are led by the senate. the judicial branch is led by the federal judge and the interpret the law. executive- president and the enforce the law. -
George washington becomes president and creates the cabinet
When he became president of the united states he was not sure on how to make the new government work.
To help these leaders govern congress made three executive departments they were the departments of state which delt with foriegn affairs, the department of treasury the delt with finaces, and the department of war delt with military matters. they were led by Henry Knox,Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton.
These deparments soon became the cabinet members. -
Two party system
When Washington 's cabinet split helped give raised the countries first political parties.
These two parties fromed around the one key issue in US history which was the power and size of the government and relation to the state and local government.
When Washington left offoce the Two party system was established. -
Bill of Rights
congress passed 12 amendments to the state legislatures to be ratified.
In the year 1791 the bill of rights was passed by three out of the five states and the ninth and tenth imposed power to the federal government.
the bill was passed and it did not protect all ammericans. freed slaves were excluded from the protection of the whites. hostilities and discrimination. -
Alexander Hamilton and his plan for creating the bank of the united states
His reason for creating the national bank was because it would be funded by the federal government and wealthy investors.
But James Madison and Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea because they feared it would create an alliance between the government and wealthy investors.
But his idea of the national bank won favor over the southern states .
