Exploration American Revolutionary War

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Exploration American Revolutionary War

• SOL Review
• US History

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Native Americans

• Settlement led to violent attacks against Native
  Americans
• Native Americans lost traditional territories
• Native Americans were exposed to diseases from
  Europe

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European Settlers

• Caribbean and Latin America Spanish
• Canada French
• Eastern Coast - English

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Settlers

• New England Puritans looking for Religious
  Freedom
• Middle Colonies/Mid Atlantic Settled by those
  looking for Political/Religious Freedoms AND
  Economic Opportunity
• Southern Colonies (Virginia) Settled by those
  looking for Economic Opportunity

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Jamestown, Virginia

• Settled in 1607
• First permanent English Settlement
• First to use slaves in the New World
• Established Virginia House of Burgesses (1940)
  today General Assembly

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New England

• Puritans settled for Religious Freedom
• Economy based on shipbuilding, lumbering, fishing
  and eventually MANUFACTURING
• Puritans practiced direct democracy through town
  meetings

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Middle Colonies

• Economy based on small scale farming and TRADE
• Settled by English, German, and Dutch speaking
  immigrants
• Major cities developed as commercial centers New
  York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore

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Southern Colonies

• Economy based on large scale agriculture
  Plantations
• Social Structure based on family status and
  ownership of land
• Closer social ties with England
• Use of slaves on plantations

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Cash Crops

• Plantations in Southern Colonies developed cash
  crops
• Tobacco, rice, and indigo
• Cheap labor was supplied through Indentured
  Servants and mostly Slaves

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Slaves in the New World

• Slavery was introduced because of the large
  landholdings in the New World and the Caribbean
• Africans were forced to the South through the
  Middle Passage
• The development of this slavery based agriculture
  in the South will eventually lead to the conflict
  between the North and the South (Civil War)

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French and Indian War

• English settlers continue to take lands away from
  Native Americans
• France and Britain have a strained relationship
• France and the Native Americans work together to
  fight off the settlers
• Britain and the Settlers win the war and gain
  control of the Ohio River Valley

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Proclamation of 1763

• After the war the King of England signed the
  Proclamation of 1763
• Gave the Native Americans back the Ohio River
  Valley and all colonists had to move back East
• Leads to growing tension between colonists and
  England

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Growing Tensions

• Stamp Act Tax on all legal documents
• Tea Act and Sugar Tax were all meant to cover
  costs of French and Indian War
• Boston Tea Party
• Boston Massacre

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No Taxation Without Representation
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The Boston Massacre
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The Boston Tea Party
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Patrick Henry gives a speech to the Virginia
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Independence Grows

• Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
• Pamphlet that challenged the power of the King of
  Englands rule over the colonies
• Many Americans read it

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Continental Congress

• Colonists Send a petition to the King No
  Taxation without Representation
• Second Continental Congress meets where Thomas
  Jefferson drafts the Declaration of Independence

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Continental Congress
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Declaration of Independence

• Influenced by ideas of John Locke and Thomas
  Paine
• We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
  all men are created equal, that they are endowed
  by their Creator, with certain unalienable
  rights, that among these are life, liberty, and
  the pursuit of happiness.

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Creating the Declaration of Independence
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Shot heard around the world

• Minutemen (colonial soldiers) fought the British
  at Lexington and Concord started the American
  Revolutionary War
• Battle of Saratoga turning point of the war
• The French aided the colonists
• General Cornwallis (Britain) surrendered to the
  colonists at the Battle of Yorktown

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Battle of Lexington
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America Becomes Independent
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Colonists Positions

• Loyalists (Tories) are those who remained loyal
  to the King of England
• Neutralists Those not taking a side
• Patriots Those wanting independence
• Patrick Henry Give me liberty or give me
  death
• Led by George Washington