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Boston Massacre
The Confratation of Samuel Adams and other citizen with the British Troops. -
Boston Tea Party
The colonies refused to pay taxes to the British, some men o disguised themselves as Mohawk Indians, boarded the three vessels and dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water -
Intolerable Acts by King George
A series of laws passed by the British relating to Britain's colonies in North America.British merchants had lost huge sums of money on destroyed goods shipped to the colonies. It was aimed for bringing the colonies back into submission of the King. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independance. He had served as governor of Virginia, as U.S. minister to France, as secretary of state under George Washington. -
Declaration of Independence
It created an independent nation with a very limited and almost powerless government in the Continental Congress. -
Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation was an agreement among the 13 states which gave the government power over foriegn affairs, war and borrow money. It was the document that organized a “perpetual Union” among the 13 states that had declared independence from Great Britain. -
Treaty of Paris
The ending of the Revolutionary War that was signed in paris. Between both parties, America agreeed to let British troops that were stil in america to leave, and pay all the money they owe to Britian. Britian reconised the independent nation and agreed to move all british troops from te new nation. -
Shay's Rebellion
A former Revolutionary War army captain named Daniel Shays lead a group of three hundred and fifty men in rebellion.The cause of shay's rebellion was because farmers were unable to pay debts and taxes so their farms were being taken away.
Many soldiers were not paid enough in service during the struggle, as the colonies were revolting. These soldiers were farmers who had to leave their homes to fight. When the colonies were freed from Britain, there was no strong enconomic ablilities -
Federalism
Federalism is a system of government in which power is shared between the central, or federal, government and the states. -
Thomas Jeffferson and the Anti-federalsit
Thomas Jefferson was a well known anti-federalist. These opponents of the new Constitution had many objections. Mainly they felt that the Constitution gave too many rights to the National government. Many of them were appeased with the addition of the Bill of Rights. -
Two Party System
A two-party system is a system where two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government and, as a result, all or nearly all elected offices are members of one of the two major parties. Under a two-party system, one of the two parties typically holds a majority in the legislature and is usually referred to as the majority party while the other is the minority party -
Bill of Rights
A bill of rights was originally proposed by James Madison which is the list of the most importants rights in the united states for citizens. The first 10 admendments to the constitution. -
George Washington becomes President and creates the Cabinet
George Washington made the cabients because he knows that he could not possibly lead angrowing nation singlehandedly, so he created a "cabinet" which was designed to aid him with major decisions. -
Three Branches of the Government
The three branches of the government are Judicial, which interpets laws, Executive, which enforces laws. and lastly the Legislative, which make laws. Each branches of the goevrnment have these powers divided up between them so not one branch has absolute control and dictates one another. -
Alexander Hamilton and his plan for creating the bank of united states
Alexander Hamilton wanted to create the Bank of United States because he believed a central bank was necessary to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, and to improve handling of the financial business of the United States government under the newly enacted Constitution.
