US History 8

Proclamation of 1763

• Punished massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party

• Use of machines to make goods through factories

• Law prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

• The movement of people from farms to cities

Trail of tears

• Cherokee refuse to leave their territory under Indian removal act; Jackson sent troops who marched west through the long cold and harsh winter

• Required tribes to settle west of the mississippi river who were force by Jackson to leave

• Cherokee refuse to leave their territory under Indian removal act; Jackson sent troops who marched east through the long hot and harsh dessert

• When blacks had no rights and were forced to be slaves for a very long time

Republicanism

• Approval by states

• Authority to govern come from the people

• Distribution of powers between state and federal governments

• Elected representatives who make and enforce laws

Quakers

• To reform or purify Church of England (Massachusetts)

• To escape religious persecution in Europe (Pennsylvania)

• To escape religious persecution in England (Maryland)

• To escape persecution and seperate from Church of England

Magna Carta

• British power shared by monarchy and parliament

• Plan for self-government signed by pilgrims in 1620

• English power shared by monarchy and parliament

• First elected lawmaking body in colonies; colonial legislatures shared power with royal governors

Battle of Yorktown (Virgina)

• Continental army victor; turning point in war that convinced french to support patriots

• First battles, small colonial victories (MA)

• Officially ended war; defined U.S. borders

• British surrender to Washington

Haym Salomon

• Rode all night to warn of the British invasion

• Died at Boston Massacre

• Helped finance war effort

• Volunteered for Continental army

Alexander Hamilton

• For Central bank

• Against Central bank

Thomas Jefferson

• For taxation

• Against taxation

Tarriffs

• For Alexander Hamilton

• Against Alexander Hamilton

• For Thomas Jefferson

• Against Thomas Jefferson