I.
A.
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- 1600:
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- French start late
on colonizing along with
- Friendly to Indians
- mainly wanted beaver skins
- Indians in
- Jesuits – French/Spanish priests
II. French and Indian War 1754-1763
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1st war to start in
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War for
territory beyond
- 1754 George Washington stakes claim along Ohio R.
- Runs into French, gets crap kicked out of him – retreats with no land.
- Starts French and Indian war.
- French give Indians weapons to reclaim their lands.
- To kill – settlers
- British dispatch General Braddock to stop the war with French/Indians.
- Rough terrain to march through, British have no clue where they’re at.
- Braddock’s armies were surrounded by Indians they were massacred.
A.
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Attempt by Ben Franklin to unite a bunch of people to
along to come up with a plan to unite against
- Doesn’t work, not enough unity
- Comes up with united we stand divided we fall cartoon.
William Pitt (wolf) –
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captured
Treaty of
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total defeat for
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No
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No
III. American in 1763
-a split occurs
between British and
British tax Americans to help fight war
- don’t want to pay taxes
Americans flood over the
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Indians lead by
British issue a law called Proclamation of 1763
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It States: don’t cross the
- Makes Americans very angry, setting up the Revolution.
The #@$% Hits the Fan…literally
I. Economic Factors
-Mercantilism
- Colonies to make Mother country rich
- no religious freedom
- no wealth for themselves
-American didn’t ah veto worry about army/navy
-part of
-Navigation Acts
- attempt to regulate colonial trade
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-Salutary neglect (1763)
- Americans get used to not paying taxes
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-tries to lighten the American colonies
- Bad guy
- a little crazy
- ends salutary neglect
II. Attack of the acts.
1764 – Sugar Act
- put tax on all sugar coming out of W. Indies
- first attempt to tax
- didn’t really work
1765 Quarterly Act
Americans must open homes to soldiers
British
attempt to reduce cost of keeping troops in
Forbidden in the Bill of Rights
1765- Stamp Act
Placed on anything that involves paper
Affects the rich
Samuel Adams
Sons
of
1766- Stamp Act was repealed
1766- Declaratory Act
Does nothing but say that British Parliament had the right to tax
1767- Townsend Act
Taxes many anonymous items
III Trouble in
Colonies throw snow balls and burning sticks
Chispus Attics grabs gun from Brit. Causing British to open fire
Major propaganda
Committees of correspondence
Spies, mainly women: report British troop movement
Colonists hated the British troops who were there for controlling
colonies
Partially against taxes
Mostly against the monopolization of tea trade
Sam Adams
Dress
like Indians and throw tea into
British are pissed
Post Intolerable Act 1774
Declares Marshal Law
First Continental Congress
To resist the Intolerable Acts
An
embargo against
Calls for the Foundation of Colonial Militia
IV The War begins
Minute men= militia men
April 1775- commander receives country report
States where British guns are kept
Go
to
Sam Adams rounds up Militia men to resist against British troops in
The “shot heard around the world” was fired
British open fire killing eight
Americans run
On British track back home to
men hiding on trees w/ guns
British almost didn’t make it back
Forging the
I Confederation
1781- Post
No real laws over all of the colonies
Articles of Confederation
First attempt at national law
Incredibly weak form of government
Only created a congress
Deadly flaws
No gov’t authority over state militaries
No ability to tax
1783-
Soldiers who weren’t paid decided to utilize the army to force congress
to pay
George Washington stops conspiracy
1786- Shay’s Rebellion
Farmers who were promised land if they fight didn’t receive any land-
led by Daniel Shay
Rich people feared poor people
Causes constitutional congress to convene
1787- Northwest Ordinance
Law that was made for the creation of New States
Says that slavery wasn’t good
Religious tolerance
II. Constitutional Convention
Summer of 1787- a group of “demigods” write new law
James Madison is “Father” of Constitution
Ben Franklin was a guiding genius
Federal vs. State
Constitution gives state authority over everything not given to Federal
How are the states represented in Congress
The Great Compromise
Creates two houses- Senate and House of Reps
The 3/5 compromise
Every 5 blacks count for 3 whites
III Federal System
Separation of Powers (checks and balances)
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Executive |
Judicial |
Legislative |
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President |
Supreme court |
Congress |
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Governor |
Federal court |
State assembly |
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Mayor |
County |
City council |
1st ten amendments are the Bill of Rights