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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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Slaves in Brit-America

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grow to support Merchantilism

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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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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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power of the purse
Constitutional power given to Congress to raise and spend money
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committees of correspondence
organized network for passing along news of British activity to the colonies
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coercive acts
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
Delagates from all colonies except georgia met to discuss problems with britain and to promote independence
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Lexington
town in eastern Massachusetts near Boston where the first battle of the American Revolution was fought
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common sense
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
The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence
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olive branch petition
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll
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saratoga
Turning point of the war French decide to help US. Out of enemy feeling toward Brit
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Great Migration
when more than 15,000 Puritans journeyed to Massachusetts to escape religious persecution and economic hard times
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New England Way
The Puritan commonwealth was based on cooperation between church and state
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Blue Laws
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
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****Half-way Covenant
Offered partial membership rights to people who have not yet converted. For church member's children
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Lord Baltimore
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.
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Society of Friends
Quakers
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First Great Awakening
Religious revival in the American colonies of the eighteenth century during which a number of new Protestant churches were established.
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George Whitefield
Credited with starting the Great Awakening, also a leader of the "New Lights.
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Jonathan Edwards
powerful preacher during Great Awakening, his message was of hell and an angry God. 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
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Albany Plan
attempt from Ben Franklin to unite the 13 colonies and protest Didn't work Set precedence
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Pitt's promise
"england will pay for the French and Indian war if the americans will fight it"
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Writs of assistance
egal document that enabled officers to search homes and warehouses for goods that might be smuggled
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Thomas Paine
Author of Common Sense
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Second Continental Congress
The meeting of colonial delegates that approved the Declaration of Independence
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Olive branch petition
An offer of peace sent by the Second Continental Congress to King George lll
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First continental congress 1774
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
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How did the Revolution "move"?
From North to South | South:most British sentiment
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John Locke
Natural Rights Inspire Declaration of Independence
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Adam Smith
Inspire American capitalism mentality Ambition and economic freedom
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Article of Confederation
More power to the states Not a unified power No Jefferson's philosophical fanciness as in the Declaration
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French and Indian War
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
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Declaratory Act
Brit response to repeal of Stamp Act "right to tax and make laws for colonies "in all cases whatsoever"
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Stamp Act
First direct tax People felt like THEY were directly paying Brit gov. officials Before: masked as import tax
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Sugar Act
stricter nav. act tried by Brit jurors place duties on foreign goods
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Coersive Acts 1774
Port Act close Boston Harbor Mass. Gov Act reduce power of Mass legislature People tried in England Quartering Act
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Quebec Act
Organized Canadian lands Canada-- Catholic
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First Continental Congress: Radical faction
greatest concessions from Brit Patric Henry Sam/John Adams
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First Continental Congress: Moderates
George Washington | John Dickinson
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First Continental Congress: Conservative
John Jay Joseph Galloway
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African Americans
Brit and Americans both offered freedom to slaves who joined Most freemen from North Some mixed-race forces
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Articles of Confederation: Ratification
dispute over states having to giveup their Western lands
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Articles of Confederation: gov. structure
central government unicameral legislature each state one vote
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Articles of Confederation: powers
``` wage war make treaties send representatives borrow money couldn't enforce taxes couldn't enforce own laws ```
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Articles of Confederation: Accomplishments
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
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Articles of Confederatoin: Problems
1. Financial war debts $$ worth nothing no taxing power 2. Foreign Europeans don't respect them 3. Domestic Shay's rebellion
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Shay's Rebellion
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
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Abolition of Aristocratic titles
no more titles | take away big estates and sell to repay war debts
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slavery
south: slavery is essential for our economy | gave religious and political justification for slavery
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triangular trade
r
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Jamestown
First successful Brit settlement
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Wampanoags
r
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New England Confederation
r
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Northwest Ordinance did...
forbid slavery in NW territory start of state making process
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Ordinance of 1785
Beginning basic unit of settlement in north of the Ohio River
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State constitutions in the 1780s did ___ than ones written in the 1770s
Balance power more among branches
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Continentals
Paper money issued by Congress, because of inflation became worthless
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Who made the constitution?
a bunch of college-educated pish posh middle aged white guys
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Bacon's Rebellion
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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