Period 3: 1754-1800 Flashcards
Colonial Rivalry between Britain & France
WAG wars, French + Indan war, Washington leads militia, the Albany Congress, Treaty of Paris 1763
Consequences of Britain beating France
Treaty of Paris 1763, Britain gets land, needs to tax colonies
British stop colonists westward
Pontiac’s Rebellion, Proclimation of 1763
Taxation Without Representation
Patrick Henry, Stamp Act Protest, Stamp Act Repeal
Colonial Leaders’ ideas of self-rule
Stamp Act Congress, Continental Congress, The Enlightenment
American Independence Energized
Ben Franklin’s “Join or Die”, Townshend Duties, Boston Massacre, Committees of Correspondance, Townshend Tea Act, Sons of Liberty, Daughters of Liberty
Help to support Patriot movement
Aid to Boston after Tea Party and Coersive (intolerable) Acts, Quebec Act
America won the War
Washington’s leadership, devotion to the cause, Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Ft. Ticonderoga, Saratoga, Yorktown, British vs American strengths and weaknesses, Second Continental Congress, Olive Branch Petition, Attack on Canada, Loyalists, Roles of Black Americans and Women, Main ally; France, Treaty of Paris: 1783
Enlightenment Ideals and Philosophy
Locke (natural rights), Rousseau (social contract), Adam Smith (free market), Montisqieu (separation of powers), Republicanism, Whig ideas (down with monarchy)
Documents about why we left Britain
Thomas Paine’s Common sense, The Declaration of Independance
Pollitical Democracy, Abolition of Slavery
“remember the ladies”, Republican motherhod, Quakers outlaw slavery, no voting tho
Republican Motherhood
Abigail Adams: “Remember the Ladies”
Reverberations in Other Countries
French Revolution, Toussaint louverture in Haiti
Legislative Branch
States had a bill of rights
Articles of Confederation Problems
Power in states, no grade with GB, large amount of debt, Shay’s Rebellion