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AH M1 Review
American History Module 1 Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Boston Tea Party | Protesting taxes on tea, dressed as natives. |
| Committees of Correspondence | Method of colonial communication and leadership group. |
| Non-Importation Movement | Protesting British imports to force recognition of rights. |
| Townshend Act | More taxes on items such as glass, lead, paint, tea, and paper. |
| Declaratory Act | Parliament's authority is the same in the American colonies as it is in Britain. |
| Sons of Liberty | Protest group who sometimes used violence and intimidation to get their point across. |
| Stamp Act Congress | Meeting to convey grievances. |
| Quartering Act | Lodging and support must be given to loyal soldiers- even if the colonist doesn't want to. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | No westward settlement beyond the original boundary line over the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Virtual Representation | Colonists were represented in Parliament the same as other British citizens. |
| Stamp Act | Direct tax on colonists for newspapers, pamphlets, licenses, legal documents, and playing cards. |
| Vice-Admiralty Courts | Courts utilized to protect trade as a result of the Sugar Act. |
| Sugar Act | Act passed to protect trade, taxes sugar and molasses in an effort to pay down war debt from the French & Indian War. |
| Salutary Neglect | Colonies benefit by being left alone, as long as they remain loyal to Great Britain. |
| Outremer | Antioch, Jerusalem, Tripoli, Edessa. The land beyond the sea. |
| Knights Hospitallar | A highly trained groups of knights who acted as a Christian border patrol. They created many hospitals. |
| 1187 AD | Third Crusade. Truce is made between Christians and Muslims. |
| Saladin | An Egyptian-Muslim who took Jerusalem into Muslim hands but allowed Christians to worship there. |
| 1192 AD | The date in which Richard I and Saladin made their truce. |
| Jihad | An intense, private religious struggle to bolster ones face. A holy war in defense of Islam. |
| Moors | Spanish Muslims. |
| Stephen of Cloyes | The child who started the Children's Crusade. |
| Thomas Paine | American patriot who authored the pamphlet Common Sense leading to wider support for declaring independence from England. |
| Battle of Saratoga | Turning point of the American Revolution in which the Continental Army who a major victory over the British leading to the Treaty of Alliance with France. |
| Battle of Yorktown | Final battle of the American Revolution which resulted in a blockade of Yorktown by the French allies of the patriots and Washington's Continental Army's siege of the city. |
| Treaty of Paris of 1783 | Formal agreement to end the American Revolution and recognized the independence of British North American colonies; granted lands from east coast to Mississippi River to the new United States even though most land west of the Appalachian Mountains was controlled by Native American groups. |
| Republican Motherhood | Idea popularized in the Revolutionary era; argued that the role of women was to raise and support young men who supported republicanism; limited women to domestic sphere while allowing for education of upper class women so to better raise their sons for leadership in the new republic. |
| Articles of Confederation | First government created for the United States; created during the American Revolution; very weak central government with each state remaining independent. |
| Land Ordinance of 1785 | Law passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation; established system for sale of land in the West to allow for raising funds and organizing western settlement. |
| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 | Law passed by Congress under the Articles of Confederation; established system for settled territories in the West to become states; prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory (Ohio Valley). |
| Shays' Rebellion | Uprising of farmers in Massachusetts in response to foreclosure on farms; angry over policies of the states; led to a call for stronger central government. |
| Virginia Plan | Proposal introduced at the Constitutional Convention to create a strong central government with power largely centered in states with large population. |
| New Jersey Plan | Proposal introduced at the Constitutional Convention to create a strong central government with power equally distributed between all states. |
| Federalists | Group who supported the ratification of the US Constitution; argued that the US Constitution would balance interests of different groups and did not need a Bill of Rights. |
| Anti-Federalists | Group who opposed the ratification of the US Constitution because they feared the new government would have too much power and would infringe on the rights of citizens. |
| Proclamation of Neutrality | 1793 policy enacted by George Washington that declared the US neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. |
| French Revolution | A period of civil unrest in France resulting in the widespread adoption of democratic ideals such as equality and liberty for all. |
| Jay's Treaty | Signed in 1794 between the US and Great Britain; finally negotiated the removal of all British troops in the US since the American Revolution. In exchange, the British would receive favorable trade status with America. |
| Battle of Fallen Timbers | Native American defeat resulting in American expansion into what is present day Ohio. |
| XYZ Affair | Incident between the French and US that led to an undeclared war between the two nations. |
| Isolationism | A policy of remaining apart, especially when it comes to political affairs. |
| Diplomacy | Managing a country's international affairs. |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Farmers resisted a tax on whiskey by attacking tax collectors. |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | Allows the president to arrest and deport non-citizens who criticized the federal government. |
| Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions | Resolutions drafted by Jefferson and Madison declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts unlawful. |
| Marbury v Madison | Established the power of judicial review. |
| Judicial Review | The power of the Supreme Court to decide whether the acts of a president or laws passed by Congress are constitutional. |
| Cabinet | Leaders who head major government departments of the executive branch and advise the president. |
| Political Party | Organization of people that seeks to win elections and hold public office in order to shape government policy. |
| Precedent | Act or statement that becomes a rule or tradition to follow. |
| Tariff | Tax on imported goods. |
| Revolution of 1800 | Peaceful transition of presidential power from one political party to another. |
| Midnight Judges | Judicial appointments made by President John Adams just before he was succeeded by President Thomas Jefferson. Adams saw the appointments as a way to preserve Federalist influence in the federal government during the Jeffersonian tenure. |
| Electoral College | Group of presidential electors who gather for the sole purpose of electing the president every four years. |
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