Chapter 10Semester Exam-Test Review #2
- Exploration
- Looking for Northwest Passage(faster way to Asia)
- Colonies
- General Info
- Most near water for transportation
- Established as a mercantilist venture to provide raw materials for mother country (England)
- Southern (plantations)
- Warmer weather (long growing season), farming based, slave labor
- Middle passage- large ships packed with slaves for sale
- Cash crops (tobacco)
- Northern/Middle
- Mostly religious
- Puritans= Mass/ Quakers=Penn/ Catholics= Maryland
- New York/Boston were main Atlantic port cities
- Short growing season- no real use for slavery
- Mostly trade based with West Indies (sugar for making rum)
- Economics
- Free enterprise system- businesses compete, control prices and production, sell to best offer (not just mother country)
- Documents/ Misc.
- Great Awakening- belief in equality and religious tolerance
- Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Conn., VA House of Burgesses- established self-rule
- Revolution
- British policies (Acts)- opposed by most colonists
- Acts caused revolution
- Mississippi River was western boundary British refused to let settlers move past Appalachian Mountains
- Proclamation of 1763
- Articles of Confederation- created during war to unite (very weak)
- No central power (can’t tax, enforce laws, create military)
- Declaration of Independence(Philadelphia 1776)- listed grievances, described unalienable rights (L,L, Pof H)
- Saratoga was turning point- France decided to help colonies
- HaymSoloman/James Armistead key in revolution
- Treaty of Paris- ended the war
- Northwest Ordinance sectioned the new territoryfor settlement (no slavery)
- Constitution (Philadelphia 1787)
- A of C were too weak (couldn’t tax, no courts, etc.)
- Many documents, people, and events influenced writing (Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, John Locke, etc.)
- New Jersey and Virginia Plans were reconciled with Great Compromise=creation of dual congress (Senate/ House of Representatives)
- Bill of Rights (first ten amendments/ addressed grievances)
- First Amendment= RAPPS
- Amending (Article V) – 2/3 both houses of Congress/ ¾ States (allow for changing times)
- Federalists- supported stronger national govt., sharing power, loose interpretation of Constitution (Hamilton, Adams)
- Anti-Federalists- supported states’rights, Bill of Rights, strict interpretation of Constitution (Jefferson)
- George Washington
- Set many precedents still used today
- Created cabinet to advise
- Hamilton was treasurer-primary goal was to set economic policy
- Three part economic plan
- tax for needed money/ tariffs to promote American goods
- pay off war debt (combine all state debts to one national debt)
- create national bank
- South agreed to take debt in exchange for moving capital
- Whiskey rebellion- showed rebellion wouldn’t be tolerated
- Neutrality between France/ Britain (France was ally, Britain needed for trade)
- Passed Federal Judiciary Act of 1789-create lower courts, number of Justices, etc. (John Jay= Chief Justice)
- State department- foreign affairs, Jefferson (feared strong gov’t.)
- Farwell address
- Political parties would split nation
- US should remain neutral for time
- Election of 1796
- Political parties played a role in election (both agreed on republican gov’t.)
- Dem Repubs- farmers and settlers/ strict interpretation of Constitution/ France
- Federalists- wealthy elites/ loose interpretation
- Election winner was President, runner-up was Vice President (Adams/ Jefferson, from different parties)
- XYZ Affair- French ask for bribes to negotiate peace in seas
- Alien and Sedition Acts- prevented free speech and press against govt.Virginia/Kentucky Resolutions to nullify
- New Economy
- Democratic-Republicans (Jefferson)- believed it should be farming/ag based
- Federalists (Adams/Hamilton)- believed it should be industry/manufacturing