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1
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Treaty of Paris 1763 results

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British gain Florida and Canada

Supreme power in North America

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Albany Plan of Union

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Ideas of Ben Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson
First attempt to Unite the colonies
Internal taxation for common defense
Fail: colonies have their own thing

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Proclamation of 1763

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prohibited colonists from settling West of the Appalachian Mountains

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Tea Act

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made price of the British East India Company’s tea cheaper than the smuggled Dutch tea

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why were Americans against Tea Act?

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the taxes paid british ppl

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Coercive Acts

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Intolerable Acts

restructured MA gov
closed Boston harbor
permitted certain murders to be tried in England

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Sugar Act vs. Stamp Act: Sugar Act…

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an internal tax.

external tax would’ve only affected merchants etc.

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Brits claimed Americans had virtual representation because

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parliament represented “all citizens of the Brit empire”

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Mayflower Compact

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A document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government.

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House of Burgesses

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he first elected legislative assembly in the New World established in the Colony of Virginia in 1619.

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Types of colonies

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proprietory,
join stock
royal

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Navigation Acts

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Only benefit Brit trade

could only trade w/ Britain

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Positives of Nav. Acts

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ship building in NE boom

Eng. military protection

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Neg. of Nav. Acts

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colonial manufacturing limited
only low prices (protected economy)
had to pay high prices for imports (spur American independence)

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Dominion of New England

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NE
try to increase Brit control
fall after The Great Revolution

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True or False: English layed off after Great Revolution

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False

More English officials to increase Mercantilism

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17
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Slaves in Brit-America

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grow to support Merchantilism

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18
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where did 90% of the imported blacks live?

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South

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Democracy in the colonies

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Except for RI and CT either appointed by crown or proprietors

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Social mobility in colonies

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OK if non-black

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American Board of Customs COmmissioners

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Pursued a program that was little more than a system of legalized piracy

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TOWNSHEND DUTIES

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Popular name for the Revenue Act of 1767 which taxed glass, lead, paint, paper and tea entering the colonies

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23
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letter from a pennsylvania farmer

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written by John Dickinson; protested against the Townshend Acts and questioned the right of Parliament to levy “external” duties to raise revenue in the colonies.

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circular letters

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James Otis
Samuel Adams

Sent by the Massachusetts General Court to legislatures of other colonies to express that the Townshend Acts were infringements on their natural and constitutional rights.

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25
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power of the purse

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Constitutional power given to Congress to raise and spend money

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26
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committees of correspondence

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organized network for passing along news of British activity to the colonies

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coercive acts

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Also known as the Intolerable Acts. Several British laws designed to punish colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party. The most famous of the acts shut down Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for.

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first continental congress

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Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence

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29
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Lexington

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town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought

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30
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common sense

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a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that claimed the colonies had a right to be an independent nation

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second continental congress

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The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence

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32
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olive branch petition

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An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll

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33
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saratoga

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Turning point of the war

French decide to help US.
Out of enemy feeling toward Brit

34
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Great Migration

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when more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times

35
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New England Way

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The Puritan commonwealth was based on cooperation between church and state

36
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Blue Laws

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named for the blue paper on which they were printed on in New Haven, CT in 1781–prohibit work and require businesses to close on Sundays

37
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**Half-way Covenant

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Offered partial membership rights to people who have not yet converted. For church member’s children

38
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Lord Baltimore

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Founded the colony of Maryland and offered religious freedom to all Christian colonists. He did so because he knew that members of his own religion (Catholicism) would be a minority in the colony.

39
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Society of Friends

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Quakers

40
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First Great Awakening

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Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.

41
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George Whitefield

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Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the “New Lights.

42
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Jonathan Edwards

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powerful preacher during Great Awakening, his message was of hell and an angry God. ‘Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”

43
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Albany Plan

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attempt from Ben Franklin to unite the 13 colonies and protest

Didn’t work

Set precedence

44
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Pitt’s promise

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“england will pay for the French and Indian war if the americans will fight it”

45
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Writs of assistance

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egal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled

46
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Thomas Paine

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Author of Common Sense

47
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Second Continental Congress

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The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence

48
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Olive branch petition

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An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll

49
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First continental congress 1774

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Everyone but Gerogia

Determine how the colonies should react to what, from their viewpoint, seemed to pose an alarming threat to their rights and liberties; no talk of secession from England

Restore the relationship they had with Britain before the French and Indian War

50
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How did the Revolution “move”?

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From North to South

South:most British sentiment

51
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John Locke

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Natural Rights

Inspire Declaration of Independence

52
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Adam Smith

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Inspire American capitalism mentality

Ambition and economic freedom

53
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Article of Confederation

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More power to the states

Not a unified power

No Jefferson’s philosophical fanciness as in the Declaration

54
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French and Indian War

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More Brit troops in America

Quartering Act

Brit supremacy in NA
Naval power

Low opinion of Colonial contribution
Tension b/w Brit and Americans start

55
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Declaratory Act

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Brit response to repeal of Stamp Act

“right to tax and make laws for colonies “in all cases whatsoever”

56
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Stamp Act

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First direct tax
People felt like THEY were directly paying Brit gov. officials
Before: masked as import tax

57
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Sugar Act

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stricter nav. act
tried by Brit jurors
place duties on foreign goods

58
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Coersive Acts 1774

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Port Act close Boston Harbor
Mass. Gov Act reduce power of Mass legislature
People tried in England
Quartering Act

59
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Quebec Act

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Organized Canadian lands

Canada– Catholic

60
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First Continental Congress: Radical faction

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greatest concessions from Brit
Patric Henry
Sam/John Adams

61
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First Continental Congress: Moderates

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George Washington

John Dickinson

62
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First Continental Congress: Conservative

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John Jay Joseph Galloway

63
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African Americans

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Brit and Americans both offered freedom to slaves who joined
Most freemen from North
Some mixed-race forces

64
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Articles of Confederation: Ratification

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dispute over states having to giveup their Western lands

65
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Articles of Confederation: gov. structure

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central government
unicameral legislature
each state one vote

66
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Articles of Confederation: powers

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wage war
make treaties
send representatives
borrow money
couldn't enforce taxes
couldn't enforce own laws
67
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Articles of Confederation: Accomplishments

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Winning war

Land of ordinance 1785: surveying and selling Western lands
Set aside land in each township for public education

Northwestern Ordinance 1787: no slavery in developing territory, grant self-governance

68
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Articles of Confederatoin: Problems

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  1. Financial
    war debts
    $$ worth nothing
    no taxing power
  2. Foreign
    Europeans don’t respect them
  3. Domestic
    Shay’s rebellion
69
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Shay’s Rebellion

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realize must have unity in order to stop radicals like Shay

farmers against high state taxes, imprisonment for debt, and lack of paper money

turned violent

70
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Abolition of Aristocratic titles

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no more titles

take away big estates and sell to repay war debts

71
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slavery

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south: slavery is essential for our economy

gave religious and political justification for slavery

72
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triangular trade

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r

73
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Jamestown

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First successful Brit settlement

74
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Wampanoags

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r

75
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New England Confederation

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r

76
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Northwest Ordinance did…

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forbid slavery in NW territory

start of state making process

77
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Ordinance of 1785

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Beginning basic unit of settlement in north of the Ohio River

78
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State constitutions in the 1780s did ___ than ones written in the 1770s

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Balance power more among branches

79
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Continentals

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Paper money issued by Congress, because of inflation became worthless

80
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Who made the constitution?

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a bunch of college-educated pish posh middle aged white guys

81
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Bacon’s Rebellion

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Bacon, rich planter

indentured servants not provided with land

clashes b/w ind. servants and NAs

Rich didn’t want to hash w/ NAs because of trade

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