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Proclamation of 1763
This act stated the British boundary and stated the anglo Americans could not settle on lands that were acquired by the French -
Sugar Act of 1764
The sugar put a tax on sugar. They did this because they wanted to stop smuggling trade sugar from the French -
Currency Act of 1764
This act prohibited the printing and issuance of paper money by colonial legislatures. -
Stamp Act of 1765
The stamp act was when anyone bought something on paper you had to buy a revenue stamp to help pay for the British soldiers. -
The Quartering Act
The quartering act forced the colonists to let soldiers live in their homes even though the colonists were already paying taxes for the soldiers barracks. -
Declaratory Act of 1766
The act gave the crown the exclusive right to impose all duties+taxes, and finding anyway to do so is illegal. -
Townshend Revenue Act of 1767
This act stated that there would be tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and tea to help pay governing taxes -
Boston Massacre of 1770
The Boston Massacre was when the colonists protested against the British troops and threw snowballs at them which caused the British troops to shoot back and kill 5 colonists. -
The Tea act of 1773
This act made it where the colonists could only accept tea from Britain to help the East India company. -
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea party was when the Sons of Liberty protested against the tax tea by throwing tea into the harbor. -
The Intolerable Acts of 1774
This act stated that the royal navy could barricade the Boston Harbor to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea party. -
Battles of Lexington and Concord
The American Revolutionary War's opening battles were the Battles of Lexington and Concord. [9] The conflicts took place on April 19, 1775, in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, all located in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay. They signaled the start of hostilities between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen American colonies. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The British were preparing to send men from the city to defend the vacant hills surrounding the city, giving them control of Boston Harbor, the colonial forces besieging Boston learnt on June 13, 1775. 1,200 colonial soldiers led by William Prescott in reaction took over Bunker Hill and Breed's Hill covertly. Breed's Hill was fortified throughout the night by the colonists, who also built lesser fortified lines all along the Charlestown Peninsula. -
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a document that declared the independence of the 13 colonies from England and declared that they were free. -
The Battle of Trenton
The Battle of Trenton was led by George Washington and his troops fought against German mercenaries. America won and captured lots of Germans. No Americans were killed. The victory at the first Battle of Trenton turned around the face of the war. After months of defeat and retreat for the American Army, this victory changed the morale of both the army and the country. -
The Battle of Saratoga
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The American defeat of the superior British army lifted patriot morale, furthered the hope for independence, and helped to secure the foreign support needed to win the war. Horatio Gates led the Americans and John Burgoyne led the British. -
Valley Forge
Valley Forge was a training camp for George Washington's continental army. Valley Forge has harsh conditions as in lack of food, diseases, lack of supplies, and low morale. Valley Forge helped the continental army beat the British and win the Revolutionary war. -
The Battle of Yorktown
The American Revolution's turning point came at the Battle of Yorktown. The British capitulation signaled the beginning of a new country and the end of British sovereignty in the colonies. This was the last battle in the Revolutionary war. -
The Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was the Treaty between Britain and America. It was the official ending to the war. The British has excepted defeat and their loss of reign on America. -
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Westward Expansion
Westward Expansion was the spreading west and moving west by the Americans. The Americans were moving west because of wealth, jobs, and other issues. Examples of wealth was the gold rush in California and since many people were moving to California for the gold rush many people started to put more businesses and stores there. Westward Expansion was nationalism because people were spreading to make their nation bigger and did not care about making their state bigger. -
3/5 Compromise
3/5 Compromise was an agreement that said 3 out of every 5 enslaved people are counted towards the state population. The 3/5 Compromise was sectionalism because the north did not want slaves to count because they did not have as many as the south did. But the south wanted the slaves to count because they had more than the north. This is sectionalism because they were focusing on what their section needed and not their nation. -
The Whiskey Rebellion
The Whiskey Rebellion was a protest because the government put a taxes on spirits to pay off debt from the war. The people of Pennsylvania burned down the tax collectors house and wanted to kill him. George Washington sent a militia to the protest to fight and calm the protesters down. -
Amendment 10 and Sate Rights
The tenth amendment was the amendment that gave states their freedom and could make their own laws. The U.S. gave power to the states and let them make decisions on their own. The amendment let them do things such as make their own laws about slavery and make their tax laws. The 10th Amendment was sectionalism because it made it where each individual state could do what they wanted that the government did not have a law on. -
XYZ Affair
France began attacking American ships as England once had. In 1797, President Adams sent three Americans to negotiate peace. The French foreign minister refused to meet and instead sent three representatives in his place. They demanded money to speak to the minister. Americans representatives were insulted. When the news broke many federalists wanted war with France as clearly they did not respect the United States and would not change their ways. -
Alien and Sedition Acts
American citizens we worried about European immigrants who might side with the French. So in 1798 Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts. -
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
Democratic Republicans thought the Alien and Sedition Acts were and abuse of power. These political statements argued the Acts were unconstitutional because they interfered with the Constitutional rights granted to the states. The Kentucky Resolution went so far to insist states could nullify laws they found unconstitutional. While the resolutions did not change the law it did show the states could challenge the federal government. -
Embargo Act
The Embargo Act of 1807 was a general trade embargo on all foreign nations that was enacted by the United States Congress. -
War of 1812
The war of 1812 was fought from June 18 1812 until February 17, 1815.Conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent. -
McCulloch V. Maryland
In 1791 Congress created the First Bank of the United States to serve as a central, national bank for the country. McCulloch wanted Congress to be able to create a national bank but Maryland did not. -
Missouri Compromise
The Missouri compromise made Maine and Missouri free states and slave states. It said that any state under the line of Missouri would be a slave state and that all remaining states were to be free states. The Missouri Compromise was nationalism because it was a compromise for the country and not the states. -
Fredrick Douglas
Fredrick Douglas was once a slave. Fredrick Douglas fought hard to end slavery and free all slaves. Fredrick Douglas was once a slave and escaped from his owner in Maryland. In 1843 Fredrick became the leader of the abolitionist movement. Fredrick Displayed Sectionalism because he cared about freeing slaves and not the slave owners. -
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman was a former slave you helped save nearly 100 slaves from slavery. Harriet was slave until she escaped in 1849. After she escaped she set her mind to a mission of freeing slaves. Harriet went on around 13 missions in the underground railroads and saved many slaves. Harriet Tubman displayed sectionalism because she only cared about freeing slaves and did not care about the entire country. -
Compromise of 1850
The Compromise of 1850 made California a free state, banned the slave trade in D.C. There was a fugitive slave law that passed where that if slaves escaped their owners they were required to be returned to their owners even if the slaves were found in a free state. The Compromise of 1850 was sectionalism because it focused on making California a free state and made a law that is different for the south and the north. -
Fugitive Slave Law
The Fugitive Slave Law was a law that was passed in 1850. It stated that if a slave is caught or found no madder if they are in a free state are not that they are to be returned back to their owner. This is an act of sectionalism because the owners only cared about if they would get their slaves back our not and did not care about the country. -
John Brown
John Brown was considered a terrorist to some. John Brown raided Harpers Ferry and the Pottawatomie raid. John Brown was raised to be a anti slave and killed many slave owners in protest to free all slaves. John Brown's main focus was to protest to free all slaves. John Brown Displayed Sectionalism because all he cared about was freeing the slaves and killed many slave owners as he did not care about anything else. -
Secession
The Secession was where states such as Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas bailed out and stopped being a rebelled state so that they could keep slavery in their state. The emancipation proclamation stated that all slaves in rebelled states were free but Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas did not want to stop slavery. The Secession was sectionalism because the states were focusing on what they wanted and what they wanted was slavery to be legal. -
Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a proclamation made by president Abraham Lincoln. It stated that all people that were slaves would be free if they were in a rebellious state such as South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Arkansas, and South Carolina. The emancipation proclamation was sectionalism because it only freed the states that were rebelled and not the entirety of the nation.