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Prepare to identify the three intellectual traditions that Patriot writers drew up when protesting.
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Prepare to describe the main elements of the sovereignty debate.
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- The sovereignty debate is the main issue that causes the American Revolution.
- The main argument is that parliament does not have the right to impose taxes, since the people are not represented there. (Benjamin Franklin)
- parliament claimed to have absolute power
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Prepare to name individual battles of the American Revolution and describe their significance.
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Lexington & Concord: Was a disaster for Britain, lost many soldiers. This was the beginning of the Revolution.
Battle of Long Island: The british forced Americans off , but the british had more casualties and wounded than americans.
Battle of Bunker Hill: Americans lost too many men, but were still able to control Bunker Hill.
Battle of Saratoga: Turning point of the revolution, British lost an entire army, and Americans created an Alliance with the french. |
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Prepare to describe the difference between fighting in the North and the South during the Revolution.
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Prepare to explain key elements of the Treaty of Paris signed in 1783.
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| Recognizes the independence of the US. Gives the US the ohio river valley the entire trans Appalachian west , all land west to mississippi. |
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Prepare to describe specific aspects of the Northwest Ordinances.
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Prepare to explain how the Constitution protected and even encouraged slavery.
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- It completely ignores slavery
- allows slave trade to continue for 2 decades
- declares a slave to be worth 3/5ths of a person for representation, therefore more people purchase more slaves in order to have more representation.
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Prepare to describe the main elements of Hamilton’s financial plan.
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| Tax on whiskey. Proposed a bank of the united states, mercantilist economy policy. |
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Prepare to identify issues that led to the creation of the first party system.
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Prepare to identify the main elements of the Revolution of 1800.
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Prepare to name individual battles of the War of 1812 and describe their significance.
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Prepare to indentify the three ways a slave could legally gain their freedom.
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Prepare to identify cultural movements that originated in the ideas of the Second Great Awakening
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| Emphasizes piety, economy has exploded, |
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Pepare to identify the main elements of the Missouri Compromise
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Proclamation Line of 1763
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Created after pontiac's defeat.
It prohibited whites to settle west of the Appalachians
This was for the most part ignored by white settlers |
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Pontiac, a chief, led a group of tribes and seized nearly every British garrison west of Fort Niagara, besieged the fort at detroit and killed/captured more than 2000 settlers. The indian alliance weakened, and were defeated , and accepted the British as their new political "Fathers". This led to the creation of the Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac had anti-British sentiments, and also said he was French and wants to die French. |
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tiny electoral districts whose voters were controlled by wealthy aristocrats and merchants
Radical Whig John called for the elimination of rotten boroughs in order to make parliament more representative of the proerty owning classes. |
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| Was prime minister in 1763, at the time Britain was in debt and British taxpayers were paying five times as much in taxes as free Americans were. He decided that new revenue would have to come from America. He created the currency act of 1764, the Sugar Act, and the Stamp Act. |
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The Sugar Act lowered the duty on foreign-produced molasses from 6 pence per gallon to 3 pence per gallon, in attempts to discourage smuggling. The act further stipulated that Americans could export many commodities, only if they passed through British ports first. The act allowed customs officials to transfer smuggling cases from colonial courts with juries to juryless vice- admiralty courts
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| A trial with no jury. The stamp act required that smugglers be tried in a vice admiralty court rather than in a common law tribunal. A judge would earn more money if they find someone guilty rather than if they fond someone innocent. |
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This tax would cover part of the cost of keeping British troops in America.
Require stamps on all court documents, land titles, contracts, playing cards, newspapers, and all printed items.
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| Met in New York City in October 1765. issued a set of resolutions protesting the loss of American "rights and liberties" especially the right to trial by jury. They began boycotts of british goods, but others took more violent forms, such as disciplined mobs. |
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| Colonists (merchants and artisans) who banded together to protest the stamp act and other imperial reforms. They originated in boston in 1765 but spread to all the colonies. |
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| Claim made by British Politicians that interests of American colonists were adequately represented in Parliament by merchants who traded with the colonies and by merchants who traded with the colonies and by absentee landlords who owned estates in the West Indies. |
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| He replaced William Pitt, and was not sympathetic toward America. He was a member of the Board of Trade in the 1750's, he supported restrictions on the colonial assemblies, and he was an outspoke advocate for the Stamp Act. He imposed the Townshend Act of 1767. |
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| Rockingham repealed the Stamp Act, and pacified imperial reformers and hardliners with the Declaratory Act of 1766, which reaffirmed parliament's full power and authority to make laws and statutes to bind the colonies and people of America in all cases what so ever. |
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Had both fiscal and political goals. Imposed duties on colonial imports of paper, paint, glass and tea and would raise about 40,000 a year. Most money would fund a colonial civil list paying the salaries of royal governors, judges, and other imperial officials. Also devised the Revenue act of 1767.
Invisible taxes |
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| Suspended the New York assembly. declared that american representative assemblies were completely dependent on the will of Parliament. |
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| Cloth spun and woven by American women. During the boycotts of British goods in the 1760's, wearing homespun clothes took on a political meaning, even the rich wore it, This allowed women to contribute directly to the Patriot movement. |
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| The women who spun cloth, during the Stamp Act boycott of 1765. Daughters and wives of patriot leaders, and even farmwives, spun cloth. Newspapers celebrated the amount of cloth spun per year. |
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| He accused Massachusetts leaders of "Treasonable and desperate Resolves" and advised the ministry to "Quash this Spirit at a Blow." |
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| Incident where a half drunken mob of colonial protesters cornered british soldiers, the british soldiers fire at the mob. This confirmed the belief that "Standing armies" were instruments of tyranny. |
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| A british ship that was burned by smugglers in Rhode Island, the British government set up a royal commission to investigate the incident. |
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Were formed to state the rights of the colonists, and to communicate with the other colonies. Was first formed in November 1772 when Samuel Adams persuaded to Boston town meetings to establish one.
The committees of correspondence organized resistance to the Tea Act. |
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| held public bonfires to persuade their fellow townspeople to consign British tea to the flames. On December 16, 1773 a group of artisans and laborers disguised as Indians boarded the Dartmouth, broke open chests of tea and threw them into the harbor. |
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Four acts to force Massachusetts to pay for the tea.
Port Bill- closed Boston harbor
Government Act- annulled the Massachusetts charter and prohibited most local town meetings
Quartering Act- required the colony to build barracks for british troops
Justice Act- allowed trials for capital crimes to be transferred to other colonies or to Britain.
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Recognized Roman Catholicism in Quebec, this reignited religious passions in New England.
Although this act was not intended to be a coercive measure many colonial leaders saw it as Parliament's intention to intervene in American domestic affairs. |
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A new continent-wide body, created in response to the Coercive Acts, by Patriot leaders, to invite all colonial assemblies to send delegates. Only 12 did.
Unity throughout the colonies. |
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Declaration of Rights & Grievances
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| Demanded the repeal of the Coercive Acts. They also repudiated the Declaratory Act of 1766. |
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| This is the beginning of the revolution. It is also a disaster for the British. Too much British blood had been spilled. |
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Second Continental Congress
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| Gathered in Philadelphia on May 1775. They created a continental army and nominated George Washington to lead it. |
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| Radicals in Congress had support for an invasion of Canada. Wanted to add a fourteenth colony to the rebellion. And take over Quebec. It was the first major initiative by the Continental Army. |
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| Published "Common Sense". Served as a minor bureaucrat in the customs service in England and was fired for protesting low wages. |
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A call for independence and a republican form of government. Reached out to farmers, saying it is a good thing to revolt, if not things would get worse.
The pamphlet blasted the British system of Mixed government, a personal attack at George III. |
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| Colonial militiamen who stood ready to mobilize on short notice during the imperial crisis of the 1770's . The defensive force was raised by the concord town meeting. They stood at minutes warning in case of alarm. |
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| On july 4th 1776 the congress approved the Declaration of Independence. The main author was Thomas Jefferson. |
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| skirmishes between patriots and loyalist. Royal governor created two armies, one white and one black. This was the Ethiopian Regiment, that enlisted some one thousand slaves who had fled their patriot owners. |
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| Power to create a government, gives the right to create a government to the people through ratification. |
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The Virginia Plan was notable for its role in setting the overall agenda for debate in the convention and, in particular, for setting forth the idea of population-weighted representation in the proposed national legislature.
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| Supporters of the constitution. |
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| Those against the constitution. |
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| The Bill of Rights is the name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.[1] They were introduced by James Madison to theFirst United States Congress in 1789 as a series of legislative articles and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the States. |
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| The decision settled the nature of public versus private charters and resulted in the rise of the American business corporation.[1] |
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| This case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia but whose commission was not subsequently delivered. Marbury petitioned the Supreme Court to force Secretary of State James Madison to deliver the documents, but the court, with John Marshall as Chief Justice, denied Marbury's petition, holding that the part of the statute upon which he based his claim, the Judiciary Act of 1789, was unconstitutional. |
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| Three Frenchmen secretly visited and met with members of the United States. As it was a known fact that France had continued its practice of seizing America's ships, those three Frenchmen gave the United States an offer or more precisely a deal – the deal stated that if the United States paid France a sum of ten million dollars, then the French would stop seizing the ships that belonged to the United States. |
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| The idea that the primary political role of American women was to instill a sense of patriotic duty and republican virtue in their children and mold them into exemplary republican citizens. |
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A burst of American literature during the 1840's
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| He created the first independent black religious denomination in the US, African Methodist Episcopal (AME) |
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| African Methodist Episcopalian church. Black evangelical movement. |
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| 1793 the cotton gin is a machine that will pick cotton faster than by hand, this was a disaster for African Americans. Producing 100 million bushels of cotton. |
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