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- 1756-1763
- AKA French & Indian War
- Britain Against France
- Important because it was the colonies and Britain vs a common enemy, also pretty much marked the indians for termination
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| Articles of Confederation |
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- Written 1777
- Ratified 1781
- Pretty much the first real attempt at a unified document to describe everybody.
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- Turning point of the revolution
- Proved Americans could fight the British, convinced the French that we could win as well
- Burgoyne surrendered 5000 troops as security for loans and diplomatic recognition
- 1777
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- End of the war
- 7800 Frenchman 5700 Continentals and 3200 Militiamen
- Cornwallis surrendered
- Developments in India West Indies and Fl force British to cut losses on America
- Treaty of Paris 1783
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- Provoked the colonies
- Really the first act of violence that was official between the two sides
- Set the stage, kind of the point of no return
- Except for they semi-returned for a few years
- March 5, 1770
- Restless unemployed
- British fired into a group of unarmed men women and children
- Free Black who became the first martyr of the revolution
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- Also called the intolerable acts
- 1774
- Boston Port bill closed boston harbor until tea was paid for
- Mass govt act (killed their self govt)
- Administration of justice act (British soldiers and officers accused of capital crime can be tried elsewhere
- Quartering Act done again
- Quebec act, quebec gets to administer the ohio river region and roman catholic religion is allowed
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| Declaration of Independence |
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- Final straw where all the colonies united against britain
- Means they had weighed the consequences and it wasnt worth putting up with anymore
- Third continental congress
- 1776
- Written by TJ
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Led the Great Awakening in 1739
Response to Enlightenments challenge to religion
Franklin fell in love with him
He turned the church into a theater |
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Led by George Whitefield in 1739
Response to the Enlightenment's challenge to religion.
look inside of self rather than society for problems in life (individualism)
made church into theater for fun |
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| Indentured Servitude in the 1620's sold labor for 5-7 years for rights to come to America to mainly harvest robacco. VA company promised that everyone gets 50 acres of land for every citizen, when you buy the person you get their land while they work. |
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PUSH : Escape religious persecution, fear about religious future, anxiety about political change, economics need for farmland, restlessness.
Pull - Word of Mouth about America, good recruiting, promise of land and economic future, desire to join migrants, safe pursuit of religious beliefs, hope of educating and converting Indians. |
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| Helped France for first 3 years of French and Indian war then England convinced them to side with the British. Had been trading with the French forever, mainly interacted with the Europeans for the first 3/4 of the 18th century. |
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| Some indian (pontiac) had a dream about native americans banding together to dispel intruders in the ohio river valley. Scots irish getting raided in the mountains, paxton boys slaughtered many innocent indians, skirmishes taught the british something, they didn't have enough funding. |
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| Basically kept Jamestown going for the first 15 or so years of the colonization. Had a broad reaching confederacy that encompassed pretty much the whole area surrounding Jamestown. |
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| Proclamation Line of 1763 |
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| Basically saying that the colonists couldn't go west over the Appalachain mountains, they did anyway, creating tension with the Indians. |
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| The War of the Regulation (or the Regulator Movement) was a North Carolina uprising, lasting from approximately 1765 to 1771, in which citizens took up arms against corrupt colonial officials. Although unsuccessful, some historians consider it a catalyst to the American Revolutionary War. Showed that some colonists were radical besides Massachusetts. |
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| A radical Boston group that played a large part in inciting the revolution, boston tea party. |
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| Just showed that they could pretty much do whatever they want, basically the first of many acts that caused a stir in the colonies. Repealed the Molasses act in 1764. |
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