| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Federalists 1780-1801 | strong central government, loose interpretation, encouraged comerce and manufacturing,order and stability, NE, Britain |
| Republicans 1780-1801 | States' rights, strict interpretation, encouraged agriculture and rural life, South and West, France, Civil liberties and trust in people |
| Democrats 1836-1850 | TRADITION, opposed banks and corporations as state legislated economic privilege, anti state legistlaed reforms and preferred individual freedom of choice, TJ agrarians, expansion, progress thru external growth, SOUTH |
| Whigs 1836-1850 | modernization, hopeful, use federal and state government to promote economic growth, for temperance and school and prison reform, pro industry and urban growth and favored expansion (ANTI MEXICAN WAR), believed in progress thru internal growth NORTH |
| Zenger case | almost gave complete freedom of the press; encouraged newspapers to take greater risks in criticizing a colony's government |
| King William and Queen Anne's Wars | English launched expeditions to capture Quebec and failed |
| King George's War | Land squabble between France and Britain. France tried to retake Nova Scotia (which it had lost to Britain in Queen Anne's War). The war ended with a treaty restoring the status quo, so that Britain kept Nova Scotia). |
| French and Indian War | Britian and France fought over OH Valley and Canada. Indians and Fr. and Spain v. Iroquois and colonists and Br. Br. won and got fr. possessions in Canada and Spanish Florida in exchange for Louisiana |
| Albany Plan of Union | During Fr. and Ind. War; Franklin proposed unification of colonies under 1 gov't. under Br. control; colonies were too jealous of their own taxation powers to accept the plan |
| Molasses Act of 1733 | British legislation which had taxed all molasses, rum, and sugar which the colonies imported from countries other than Britain and her colonies. The act angered the New England colonies, which imported a lot of molasses from the Caribbean as part of the Triangular Trade. The British had difficulty enforcing the tax; most colonial merchants did not pay it. |
| Sugar Act of 1764 | replaced the Molasses Act of 1733, and actually lowered the tax on sugar and molasses; created vice-admiralty courts |
| patrick henry | a leader of the American Revolution and a famous orator who spoke out against British rule of the American colonies (1736-1799) |
| Internal taxes | For activities within the colonies ex) stamp act |
| External taxes | For activities outside the colonies ex) customs duties and Sugar act |
| Declaratory Act 1766 | Declared that parliament still had absolute power ove the colonies and could still tax them |
| Quartering Act 1765 | Make colonists provide food, house, and supplies for British troops |
| Townshend Acts 1767 | Taxed luxury items imported into the colonies; colonists outraged and started another movement to stop importing Br. goods |
| John Dickinson | "letters from a farmer in PA" to protest townshend acts; opposed revolution but still said br. mistreated colonies |
| Circular letter 1768 | Urged colonies not to import goods taxed by townshend act |
| Gaspee incident 1772 | British customs ship land at colonial coast and colonistis burned it. they were sent to br. for trial and colonial outrage led to Committees of Correspondence by Sam adams |
| Boston tea party | Boston was boycotting the tea in protest of the Tea Act and would not let the ships bring the tea ashore. Finally, on the night of December 16, 1773, colonials disguised as Indians boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard. They did so because they were afraid that Governor Hutchinson would secretly unload the tea because he owned a share in the cargo. |
| Marbury v. Madison | 1803; judicial review |
| Fletcher v. Peck | 1810; Contracts and state law; interfere with a person's property rights |
| Martin v. Hunters Lessee | 1816; Federal appelate jurisdiction over state courts |
| Dartmouth College v. Woodward | 1819; Contracts and state law; private corporation charters to be contracts and immune form impairment by states' legislative action |
| McCulloch v. Maryland | 1819; the elastic clause and federal state relations; upheld the power of Congress to charter a bank as a government agency, and denied the state the power to tax that agency |
| Republicans/Democrats- Gilded Age | Not as many party differences, pro-business |
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