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APUSH 2
Extra Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Security Vs. Liberty | Enlightenment thinkers thought that increasing freedom leads to more harm; however decreasing the freedom inreases ones security. |
| Virtual Representation | When James Otis said NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION; the brittish claimed they did not need to do so since in doing the Sugar ACTs the colonials needs were already thought about. |
| Torries (Loyalists) | Colonials who still pledge alligance to the Brittish |
| Middling to Lowe class people | took part in the Mob action |
| Republican Govenment | With the new colonial governemnt the woman would be responsible for educating the children. |
| Boston Tea Party | In anger to the tea act the sons of liberty dress up as native americans and board british ships and dump all of the tea into the water. |
| Nathanial Hale | Was a captured american spy who claimed to be a teacher when caught. He was hung. |
| Campaign of 1777 | 3 British Armies: Howe- NYC- north to Albany St. Leger-Montreal- SW to Lake ontario then east to Albany Burgoyne- Montreal- south to Albany |
| Newburgh Conspiracy | the govenrment was broke, officers threaten to revolt and offer support to washington to be the King, Washington rejects the offer. |
| Spain Closes the Mississippi to America | Spain controls the misssissisppi so they shut down New Orleans port in order to prevent American trade, |
| Treaty of Paris not enforced | Americans pay off british credators debts. The US does not pay off their debts. America government had no power to enforce the Treaty of Paris. |
| Edmond Randolph | Presents the virgina plan even though he did not write it. |
| Roger Sherman | He proposes the great Connecticut compromise. |
| Slave Trade and Commerce clause | The southern farmers built slavery into the fabric of our government. Never use the term slavery in the constitution. prohibited the federal government from limiting the importation of “persons” (Slaves) |
| Charles Beard | A historian. Looks back at the socioeconomic conflict in his examination of the constitution |
| Bill of Rights Purpose | To please the Anti-federalists who refused to sign the constitution. They state individual freedoms, required to prevent the country from falling into tyranny. |