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| Why did slavery become a major issue in the 1840s and 50s despite earlier attempts to settle the issue? |
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| Western expansion -- how would slavery be addressed in the territories? |
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| How did the Seven Years' War change Anglo-American relations? |
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economic: put Britain into debt, making them tax the colonies
political: kept settlers from moving West of the Appalachians with the Proclamation of 1763, which made America angry; and in getting rid of the French, took away American's primary reason for wanting them there
ideological: helped America realize that Britain was not invincible; just how separate the cultures had grown; and that the British disliked them |
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| Why did the British institute the Proclamation of 1763? |
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Definition
| trying to appease the Indians after Pontiac's Rebellion |
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| How was the Stamp Tax eventually overcome? |
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| the Stamp Act Congress and nonimportation agreements; organizations such as the Sons/Daughters of Liberty |
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| What led to the Boston Tea Party? |
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| The British East India Company was granted a monopoly on the American tea market |
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| What event set off the War of Independence? |
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| British troops marched to Lexington and Concord to try and seize gunpowder as well as capture Samuel Adams and John Hancock. they defeated the Americans and Lexington but were themselves defeated at Concord |
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| what were some British advantages and disadvantages? |
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Definition
| greater population, more money to hire foreign soldiers and Indians; their soldiers were mistreated, they had bad supplies, and also had to concentrate on Ireland and France at the same time |
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| American advantages and disadvantages: |
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| advantages: fighting on home soil, better access to supplies, brilliant leadership, |
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| What events led to Americans starting to consider independence? |
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| after Bunker Hill, they were now committing treason -- they couldn't back out now. Resented the Hessians -- thought it was bad for Britain to bring in foreigners to deal with a 'family affair.' Common Sense by Thomas Paine argued that a small nation should never control a large one |
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| 3 stages in British strategy during the War of Independence: |
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.1. British concentrated their forces in New England
.2. shifted to the Middle Colonies, trying to separate N and S. After Saratoga, they gave up and move on to
.3. South -- they tried to get loyalist help and supplies from the West Indies. they took Charleston, and eventually Cornwallis surrendered in Yorktown and the war ended. |
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| What were some American reform efforts after the War of Independence? |
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| separation of church and state, push to emancipate slaves, and education for women |
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