american history taks test review notes. what happened in 1492?
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Christopher Columbus sailed across to the America’s
establishing Spanish rule to much of the New World.
Only 60 of more than 900 Jamestown colonist survived
because of it was a very swampy location & disease spread easily.
The Virginia House of Burgesses in 1619 was the first representative
legislature in the English colonies.
New England couldn't rely on farming because of poor soil, so their main economic activity was shipbuilding, forestry & fishing.
The Southern Colonies relied on mainly agricultural products like
tobacco, indigo & rice “cash crops”
Causes of the Revolution
• The British taxed the colonies for revenue to pay for the French and Indian War
• “No taxation without representation”
The colonists resented being taxed without having a voice in parliament.
Colonist resented the British for telling them were they couldn’t settle after the Proclamation of
1763.
• In 1774, as punishment for the Boston Tea Party, the Coercive Acts are enacted against Massachusetts.
• What did the colonists call those acts?
The Intolerable Acts
King George III's decision
not to repeal theIntolerable Acts
or any of the other taxes
finally caused the
Revolutionary War
that led to theColonies
Independence
Loyalists vs. Patriots• Loyalists- Americans who supported
Great Britain during the revolution
• Patriots- Americans who favored
independence from Great Britain during the revolution
The Boston Massacre in 1770 was used as propaganda to rally Patriots against the British.
Could you be next?
George Washington
• Commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
• 1st President of the United States
Thomas JeffersonAuthor of Dec of Independence
Founder of Univ of Virginia3rd President
Louisiana Purchase
• In 1776, a committee meets to draft a Declaration of Independence, which justified the right to revolt. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
• After independence is won in 1781, the colonies needed a government, so the government adopted what?
Some states were afraid of having a strong federal government
because they didn’t want to be another England.
Constitutional Convention of 1787
• Delegates drafted a new constitution to replace the Articles of Confederation.
Great Compromise was splitting the legislative branch into 2 parts.
• Senate – each state gets 2 senators in congress
• House of Representatives – states that have a large population will get more representatives in congress.
Alexander Hamilton was the Secretary of Treasury and favored a strong central government with a
National Bank.
He was a Federalist
Democratic-Republicans favored a weak central government and a strict interpretation of the US Constitution
Principles of the U.S. Constitution
• What is the correct term for power that is shared between the states and national government with the national government having more power?
Federalism• What is a system called in which people
vote for the elected representatives to run the government?
Republicanism• What is it called when the people hold
supreme power? It is addressed in the
preamble “We the people..”
Popular Sovereignty
• To prevent any branch of the new government from being too strong, the new Constitution designed a system known as what?
Checks and Balances
This system is designed to ensure that not one branch of government will gain too much power.
You need 2/3 vote in both houses of congress or 75% of state legislators to ratify the US
Constitution.
Many in America believed that the US should stretch from the Atlantic
to the Pacific. This is called Manifest Destiny
14th Amendment
Citizenship to Freed slaves
Resources
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•www.constitutioncenter.org/.../cw02_11926.html