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| Relationship between New England and the Colonies prior to 1750s |
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Loose Control
Salutary Neglect
Economic Policy of Mercantilism
Navigations Acts - 1650s |
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| series of laws that restricted use of foreign shipping for trade between england and its colonies. Their goal was to stop direct trade with European countries. |
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1754-1763
The French and Indians versus the British
General Braddock is sent from Britain to defeat the French |
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1756-1763
Britian: 1.2 milliion colonists
French 100,000 colonists
French and Natives were allies.
Struggle at Ohio Valley (Fort Duqense)
George Washington
surrenders |
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| Effects of the French and Indian War |
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French had the advantage
There was scalp taking which was a British Tactic
Indians chose the lesser of two evils- the French
General Braddock brought 1400 redcoats only 500 survived
Washington escaped and Braddock was killed |
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Frensch lost N. American Empire, but kept New Orleans
Great Britain returned Cuba and Philippines to Spain and got Florida in return.
France and Spain were destroyed.
Americans took pride.
Greate Britain dominated New World |
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passed in 1764
-3 pence per gallon on all imported molasses, wine, coffee, indigo, sugar
-enforced by port authority and vice admiralty courts
disrupted the trade with other countries
protests and boycotts result of this |
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Tax on legal documents, pamphlets, leases, deeds, insurance policies, playing cards, college diplomas. Exaggerated "no taxations without representations"
-caused the most protest because it affected everyone: parades, bonfires, and near riots occurred. |
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*Stamp Act Congress Resolutions
*Declaration of Rights and Grievances
*Sons of Liberty
_Boycot of British merchandise
*Stam Act reprealed and Sugar Tax reduced when London Merchants' screamed |
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| showed the lietenant governor Thomas Hutchinosn whose howse had been destroyed in riots 9 years earlier. The devil carries a list of Hutchinson's crimes. |
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| British attempted to control the colonies through |
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Declaratory Act 1766
Townshend Act 1767
Quarter Act - 1767 |
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| affirmed Parliament's authority to "make all laws and statutes" binding on colonies |
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| tax on paint, glass, paper, and imported tea |
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| colonists were ordered to provide the basic needs of soldiers stationed on the border |
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New boycotts united for common cause; New York refuses to comply with the Quartering Act,
Daughters of Liberty begin spinning |
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March 5, 1770
15,000 Boston citizens
4,000 British army
*5 die
*Committees of Correspondence formed |
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consisted of women who displayed their laoyalty by participating in boycotts of British goods.
*used thier skills to weave and spin yarn and wool into fabric which made America less dependent ofn British products |
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| What was the Boston Tea Party about? |
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Monopoly on Tea from East India Company
Tea had to pass through loyal merchants
150 men dressed as Natives
3 tons of tea dumped |
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| Intolerable Acts and New Quartering Act |
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Could occupy any building
Trials could be transferred to Britain |
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| Thoman Paine's influential pamphlet denouncing the idea of hereditary rule and calling for American independence |
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September 1774 in Philadephia with 56 delegates. Not Georgia
Suffolk resolves.
Opposed to coercive acts |
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| Program of Economic Retaliation |
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nonimprtation, non consumption, commercial warfare
* Britain claims it an illegal assembly and will not send a delegate to negotiate |
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*Decide to raise and army
*Appoint George Washington to lead it
*Thomase Paine publishes Common Sense and gives argument for independence
*French help the colonists |
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| Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence |
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*Appealed to the natural rights of man
*Listed imperial oppressions
*Justified actins by indicting the King
*Celebrated individual liberties and right ot popular sovereignty |
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*Wealthy Virginia Family
*Militie leader during French and Indian War
*Member of the House of Burgess and Continental Congress
*Led the Continental Army
*Christmas Day attack |
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| John Adams describes George Washington |
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| "I had but one gentelman in my mind for that important command, and that was a gentelmen from Virginia who was among us and very well nown to all of us, a gentlemna whose skill and experience as an officer.... |
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| donned men's clothes to fight in the War of Independence |
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| How was the war paid for? |
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Borrowed 8 million from citizens
5.5 million financed by states
240 million issued in paper money |
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| How was the war paid for? |
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Borrowed 8 million from citizens
5.5 million financed by states
240 million issued in paper money |
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September 3, 1783
Recognized American Independence
Set Boundaries:
West - Mississippi
North 49th parallel
South 31st parallel |
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