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Unit 2 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Jonathan Edwards - America's Great Awakening Minister
        
        attacked science
    - - Albany Plan of Union
        
        called for more centralized form of govt, plan was rejected but important b/c laid mold for future revolutionary congress
  - - - provided GB enormous territorial gains in North America
        
        Proclamation 1763
        
        tension btwn Indians and colonists, GB wanted to keep trade relations favorable & protect colonists
        
        forbade colonies from taking territory west of the Appalachian mountains
        
        deeply frustrated colonists
- - - - Shay's Rebellion
        
        farmers had fallen into debt while fighting in Revolutionary war, unable to pay their debts and made formal petitions for relief, Shay was one of those farmers and gathered militia of farmers, was squished but displayed weakness of AOC b/c the uprising alarmed state leadership, no pres or national army
        
        Constitutional Convention 1787
        
        Compromises
        
        Great Compromise
        
        legislative branch split into two houses - bicameral congress
        House of Representatives - states represented by population
        
        Senate: equal votes, 2 votes per state
        
        1808
        
        3/5th Compromise
        
        3/5th of slave population in each state would be counted towards their representation
        
        Madison - Father of Constitution
        
        Federalists
        
        urban people, wanted stronger central govt
        
        Hamilton
        
        Federalists Papers - defend Constitution
        
        Anti-Federalists argued against ratification of Constiution b/c it lacked Bill of Rights
        
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        supported property qualifications for voting
        
        supported a supreme court
        
        agreed with Jefferson on religion, but not France or States power
        
        Anti-Federalists
        
        rural people, wanted state power, opposed increase in federal govts power
  - - - Land Ordinance of 85 and 87 initiated policy for creating new states
        
        provided plan for how unformed territories could be occupied and applied to the union for state hood
        
        abolished slavery in the northwest territory
- - - - Stamp Act 1765
        
        tax on all paper items, threatening to colonists who were experienced declining wages & rise of unemployment
        
        Sons of Liberty - organization that fought against this
        
        Stamp Act Congress - even as the colonists were rejecting the Stamp act they were doing so as loyal subjects to GB, wanted to have full rights of BR citizens
        
        repealed stamp act & sugar act
        
        Declaratory Act 1766
        
        GB: "we have the right to pass any law, Parliament is supreme"
        
        Townshend Acts 1767
        
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    - - virtual representation
        
        GB: members of Parliament "represented" all classes
        
        colonists: no, taxation w/o representation is tyranny