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Two Treaties of Civil Government (1690)
- State of Peace
- Conflict over property means war
- Constitutional Monarchy/Limited Government |
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Leviathan (1660)
- Self-preservation, everyone is free
- "Peace treaty" between government and people
- State of War |
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- NO government
- Natural rights
- State of war
- Social contract |
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Hobbes: - Every man for himself
Locke: - Property conflicts |
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- The Lost Colony
- Sir Walter Raleigh requested charter from Queen Elizabeth I in 1584
- 1585 commanded by Ralph Lane
- 1587 commanded by John White
- 1588 Spanish Armada attached England
- 1590 White returned to Roanoke, colonists completely vanished
- Colonists might have been killed by Native Americans, raft and try to get to mainland, or absorbed by Native societies |
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- Wants religious freedom
- Economic profit
- Adventure
- Glory to "king and country" |
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- Acquire gold and silver
- Balance of trade (ideal to sell more than buy)
- Necessitates colonies
- Colonial production depended on geography
- Most goods shipped to England; colonies stayed near coast |
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| - Leads to desire for self government among colonists |
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- Seven Years' War (1754-1763)
- Struggle for Ohio Country
-1749, French began building forts in Ohio and told British to leave
- Fort Le Boeuf (1753)
- Fort Necessity taken by French and Native American
- Albany Congress
- War begins at Battle of Ft. Necessity (French, Algonquin, and Huron vs. English and Iroquois)
- War in colonies 1754-1763
- War in Europe 1756-1763: Seven Years' War
- Fort Dequesne (1755)
- British won, French lost Louisbourg, Quebec; captured by General Wolfe in 1758 |
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Abuse #1
- Proclamation of 1763
- Colonists restricted from setting west of Appalachian Mountains
- Wanted to avoid conflict w/ Natives and keep settlements close to coast for trade |
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Abuse #2
- March 1765 by Prime Minister George Grenville
- Tax on all products using paper
- Tax used to pay for debts from French & Indian War and other wars in Europe
- Stamp costs money, and required on almost all objects
- Only colonists were taxed |
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Abuse #3
- In 1767 by Charles Townshend
- Tax on glass, lead, paint, and paper imported under Britain
- Also tax on tea
- Boycotts and protests around |
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- King George has Parliament pass in 1774
- Shuts down Boston Harbor
- Declares martial law in Boston
- Suspends Massachusetts legislature |
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- March 5, 1770
- Fight between soldiers and colonists for jobs
- That evening, colonists return to taunt soldiers
- Insults hurled, snowballs thrown
- Soldiers fire into crowd, 5 colonists killed |
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- Tea boycott threatens British East India Company in 1773
- P.M. Lord North allow BEI Co. to sell tea tax-free
- Colonial merchants cut out of tea markets
- Group of colonists dress as Mohawk Indians to get aboard
- 3 ships loaded w/ tea, dumped it into Boston Harbor |
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- Peace petition
- July 1755 by Continental Congress to send to King George III
- Written John Dickinson
- Says that colonies were still loyal to the king and asked him to call off hostilities and resolve the situation peacefully
- King George III refused to look at this document |
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- Colonists got organized
- Independent government for colonists
First Continental Congress:
- Declaration of colonists' right (Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Virginia Declaration of Rights)
- Protest against Intolerable Acts
- Leads to start of Revolutionary War (battles at Lexington and Concord)
Second Continental Congress:
- Olive Branch Petition
- Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"
- Declaration of Independence |
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- January 1776
- Lively and pamphlet
- Almost everyone viewed Parliament, not king, as the enemy
- Paine attacked King George III and thought he was a tyrant |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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- July 4, 1776 by Continental Congress
- Colonies now became United States of America and Revolutionary War started
- Committee comprised of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, and Thomas Jefferson |
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- April 19, 1775 at Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Dr. Samuel Adams warned the colonists at Concord
- Colonists won |
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- June 17, 1775 at Charlestown, Massachusetts
- Some battle on sea and some on land at Charlestown Peninsula
- Americans lost hill but felt uplifted that more British troops were wounded
- British won |
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- Sept. 19 - Oct. 17, 1777 at Saratoga, New York
- British wanted to isolate New England from other American colonies
- Colonists wanted to keep Hudson River from the British
- Colonists won; Boosted their morale and gained France as allies |
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- July 3, 1776 at New York
- British began attacking be recapturing New York
- General George Washington defended Long Island and Manhattan
- Ordered to withdraw N.Y. to British
- British won |
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- December 26, 1776 on Trenton, New Jersey
- Against Hessians (General Rahi)
- Not many casualties for colonists
- Colonists won |
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- One of the last battles, helped independence for colonists
- Sept. 20-Oct. 19, 1781 in Virginia
- French soldiers aided the colonists
- French and colonists captured two redoubts
- More British casualties, British surrendered and gave weapons to colonists
- Battle was road to freedom
- Colonists won |
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- Winter of suffering; Camp
- Not enough food, clothes, warmth
- General George Washington
- Continental Army arrived at December 19, 1777 |
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- Signed on Sept. 3, 1783
- Britain recognized the USA as a new nation
- Also gave Florida back to Spain
- November 24, 1783, all British troops left New York City
- American Revolution was over |
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- Hobbes: Right of self-preservation
- Locke: Right to life, liberty, and property |
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| - Ability to make people do something |
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| - Legitimate power given to the government by the People |
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| - Ultimate power/ruler like a king |
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- Locke: When the People give up some of their rights
- Hobbes: All of their rights so the government will protect them |
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| - First successful British colony in America (1607) |
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| - Where the Mayflower (from England) first landed in 1620 |
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