2 KEY IDEAS

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CHAPTER 7 ROAD TO REVOLUTIONHow does America
go from complacent colony to fiery revolution?

• 2 KEY IDEAS
• 1-REPUBLICANISM
• The rights of the people to control their destiny
• 2-INFLUENCE OF THE WHIGS
• Those who dislike the king

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INSURRECTION OF THOUGHT USUALLY PRECEDES
INSURRECTION OF DEED

• COLONIES
• HAPHAZARD ACCUMULATION OF NEW WORLD LAND
• LAND OWNERSHIPPOLITICAL POWER

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MERCANTILISM

• BRITISH VIEWCOLONISTS EXIST TO BENEFIT BRITAIN
• WEALTHPOWER
• MEASURE WEALTH WITH GOLD SILVER
• FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE
• STRONG CENTRAL GOVT

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COLONISTS

• TREATED AS TENANTS
• 1-furnish products
• 2-buy goods
• 3-ensure navy is best by building ships, stores
  increasing trade

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HOW TO ENFORCE MERCANTILISM??

• 1-NAVIGATION LAWS
• Use English ships only
• Not allowed to compete with English industries
• Colonists not allowed to
• develop Banks
• Print
• drains gold reserves

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BENEFITS OF MERCANTILISM

• 1-Price supports for ship parts
• 2-Virginia has a monopoly on tobacco
• 3-no cost for defense
• 4-trickle down prosperity
• 5-used by Spain France too
• still used todayprotective tariff

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PROBLEMS WITH MERCANTILISM

• 1-stifled economic initiative
• 2-southern colonies more profitable
• 3-New England coloniesdislike favoritism-lack of
  econ. freedom
• 4-Virginialand grab
• 5-Colonies being used for the benefit of the
  British crown

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Impact of French Indian War on Colonies

• 1-Proclamation Line of 1763no colonies can go
  west of Appalachia
• British cant protect colonists from tribes
  Frenchso not allowed to go west
• 2-Sugar Act of 1764
• Increased the tax on foreign sugar imported from
  West Indies

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Impact continued

• 3-STAMP ACT OF 1765
• MANDATORY USE OF STAMPED PAPER TO CERTIFY PAYMENT
  OF TAX
• TAX PAYS FOR PROTECTION OF COLONISTS BY TROOPS
• ----repealed in March 1766
• 4-ORDER NAVY TO ENFORCE NAVIGATION ACTS
• 5-QUARTERING ACT
• 6-USE ADMIRALITY COURTS FOR OFFENDERS

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Acts of Parliament continued

• Declaratory Act of 1766
• -make laws for Americans in all things
• Parliament had to be powerful or it would have
  no power at all
• Townshend Acts of 1767
• -tax on importslead, glass, paper, paint tea
  (indirect/internal tax)
• -reorganize customs service
• -pays for Royal Govr judges

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NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!

• Prime Minister-Grenville
• Virtual representation
• direct representation impossible
• Americans make distinction betweenlegislative
  actions taxing

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PROTESTS

• Boston Massacre 1770
• British fire on colonists
• Starts as a snowball fight
• Samuel Adamsmaster of propaganda leader of
  Sons of Liberty
• Brit reaction-----repeal all but tea tax

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MORE AMERICAN PROTESTS

• Stamp Act Congress-1765
• Non-Importation Agreements
• ¼ of all Brit exports go to colonies
• ½ of all British shipping to colonies
• Sons of Liberty
• Customs agents racketeers
• 1772-Committees of Correspondence

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BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773

• Britain gave Brit. East India Company a monopoly
  on tea
• Sell tea to colonists at a low price, but Brit.
  Govt still gets
• Protest-throw tea
• into Boston Harbor

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INTOLERABLE ACTS OF 1774

• Closed port of Boston
• Forbid govt meetings
• Troops take over homes
• Quebec Actextend Quebec to Ohio River
• Trials held in England for those accused of a
  crime in the colonies

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How does America go from complacent colony to
fiery revolution?

• Reasons/Answers

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1774-1st Continental Congress

• complete boycott
• No revolution/no independence
• The association
• April, 1775shots fired at Lexington Concord

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BRITAIN COLONIES

• Advantages
• Disadvantages

• Advantages
• Disadvantages

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Battle of Concord
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Loyalist Strongholds
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Phase I The Northern Campaign1775-1776
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Phase II NY PA1777-1778
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Phase III The Southern Strategy 1780-1781
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North America After theTreaty of Paris, 1783
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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCEJULY 2, 1776

• "Yesterday the greatest question was decided
  which ever was debated in America and a greater
  perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among
  men. A resolution was passed without one
  dissenting colony, that those United Colonies
  are, and of right ought to be, free and
  independent States." (Letter to wife Abigail
  Adams, July 3, 1776)