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Significance: justified British control over colonies
1. Wealth was power
2. A country's wealh (and hence its military and political power) is measured by amount of gold or silver in treasury
3. To obtain wealth, country needed to export more than they import |
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Colonial Reaction: protested, didn't pay, began to deny parliament, contemplated political independence, rival colonies interacted to rebel, boycott all british goods
British Response: tried offenders in admirality courts, stamp agents resign due to lack of business, law nullified by defiance, repealed eventually |
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Protesting the monopoly on tea sales in the colonies to the British East India Company, colonists dressed as Indians and threw tea into Boston Harbor
British Response: Coercive Acts, Boston Port Act (closed Boston Harbor until further notice) |
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Author: Thomas Paine
1. called for union and independence
2. republic: established a govt. that recieves power from governed |
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| Actual vs. Virtual Representation |
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Actual: a representative from the colonies in parliament
Virtual: parliament representatives represent all british citizens which includes colonists |
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| John Locke's Social Contract Theory |
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1. Gvts. get power from governed (natural rights)
2. Gvt. protects the rights of the people (law)
3. people agree to obey the law
4. people have the right and obligation to replace the gvt. |
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| Colonial Advantages in Revolutionary War |
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1. Leadership (Washington, Franklin)
2. Foreign aid (Lafayette)
3. Odds favored defense
4. Colonies self sustaining
5. Moral advantage (belief in just cause) |
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| Colonists felt they earned the Ohio River Valley and should be allowed to utilize it. |
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| Parts of Declaration of Independence |
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1. Preamble: Thomas Jefferson, Locke's ideas, "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
2. Biggest Portion: Complaints against George III (taxes, acts, etc)
3. Declaration: Statement of Independence |
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| Fighting of Revolutionary War: What Areas? |
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| Fate of Loyalists after Revolutionary War |
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Three possibilities:
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3. Property taken |
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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| Constitutional Convention: Purpose |
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| Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists |
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| Representation based on population |
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| Representation based on equality |
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House of Representatives: representation by population
Senate: Equal representation |
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| Victory; French agree to aid colonists |
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1. Britain recognized America's Independence
2. America's Boundaries set (Atlantic Ocean to Mississippi River, Great lakes to Florida)
3. Spain got Florida
4. France got land west of Mississippi |
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| Results of French and Indian War |
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England: all land from East Coast to Mississippi
France: St. Lawrence gulf fishing rights, lost all political influence on North America
Spain: all land west of Mississippi
Issue: Colonists had to pay for stationing troops |
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| Permanent European Settlements |
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1. Last major battle of Rev. War
2. American Victory
3. Peace treaty between Britain and America followed |
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| First Continental Congress |
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| Wealthy in Colonial America |
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| Second Continental Congress |
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| Characteristics of the Three Regions of Colonies |
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| People began to question traditional authority. If the priest wasn't being honest, was the politician? |
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| Where was religion used as a reason for founding a colony? |
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| "No Taxation without Representation" |
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| Colonies in rebellion: when? |
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