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| The Grand Settlement- Def and importance |
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| Before the Seven Year's war. The Iriqois declared that they were neutral from UK and France. Let France pursue the fur trade and UK could still buy land from the Iriqois. |
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| New economic policy adopted by the British gov to keep wars funded. They would borrow from the elites and only pay the annual interest. Allowed for more wars to be fought and funded.Large war advantage. The bank of England was established |
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| Representation of districts of England in Parliament. Controversial to colonies because although they viewed themselves as British citizens, they were not represented in Parliament. |
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| The Eldest son of an english family inherited property. This sparked one of the many reasons for english to immigrate to the colonies where land was plentiful. It was hard to acquire land in England because of this. |
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During the King George's War, a raised army of colonial fishermen, farmers, traders and fontiersmen attack a French stronghold in Nova Scotia.
-Harassment of british ships cease
- Treaty of Aix La Chapelle, UL gives back fort and undermines and upsets colonial war effort. |
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| After the Seven year's War, settlement of the back country by more settlers sparks anger in inidian nations. Pontiac organizes a rebellion to encourage French to come back due to poor relations with British. Leads to the Proclimation line of 1763 to protect indian-UK relations. |
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| British government in order to preserve Indian relations and stop another rebellion, place a boundary along Appalacians outlawing settlement further west of the line. The Proclamation also established new colonies of quebec and allowed the British to place forts along the appalacians. |
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A tax placed upon any paper article used within the colonies. Colonists opposed it because it:
- Was put in place without representation in parliament by authority of virtual representation.
- Britain wanted hard money- colonists feared that the money would not stay in circulation within NA
- Patrick Henry wrote and passed the Virginia Stamp Act Resolution to oppose it |
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Parliament has he power to do whatever it wants in all cases. A warning and response from British Gov to Stamp Act Repeal.
The colonists and parliament alike realize that power has now been given to colonists to oppose Parliament. |
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A period of inductive vs deductive reasoning.
Advances and changes in:
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- Rational thought
- Questioning the divine rite
- Individual rights and natural laws (Locke)
- contributed to adoption of Republican ideology within colonies |
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| Influenced by the country party. The view that the government is corrupt and will take away liberty if not unchecked or stopped. This ideology spread through the colonies and heavily influenced the colonists perspectives on taxation as unfair and fueled fear of a British conspiracy to take away liberties. |
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| A tax on paper, tea, lead and glass from Britain. Used to pay colonial governors salaries. Through a republican ideology veiw, the colonists were afraid that the british government now has more influence over colonial government. Defies self governance. Also makes colonists angry because by law, nothing was to be manufactured in the colonies, and everything had to be purchased from the UK. |
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| Conflict between soldiers stationed in Boston and protesters. Killing of protesters fueled fear of British conspiracy to take away colonists liberties through a republican ideology veiw. It angered colonists because it is against British policy to keep a standing army while in peace time. |
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- closed port boston -quartering act- troops housed - mass gov act- house app by british leaders -Admin of justice- soldier would be tried in another colony -quebec act- govern non UK made colonists afraid becuase french gov naturally does not have freedoms |
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