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Board of Customs Commissioners
To curtail smuggling in Boston
Tea Tax
Repealed Townshend Taxes except on tea.
Boston Massacre (1770)
Hugh white outside of customs house. Fight breaks out. Crispus Attocks gets shot leading to massacre. Troops leave Boston. 3 year peace.
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre
Suggested massacre over riot.
Commitees of Correspondence
By Samuel Adams to keep up enthusiasm for British Resistance.
Philosophical Influence of American Revolution
Colonist felt English gov. corrupt.
Formation of Regulators because of...
under-representation and corruption of colonial authority.
Gaspee Affair
Burning of British schooner. Led to Royal Commission of Inquiry.
Boston Tea Party
In response to Tea Act. Felt they validated tax by buying tea. Led to Intolerable/Coercive Acts
Sons of Liberty
Throw tea in harbor.
Intolerable/Coercive Acts (1774)
Quartering Act
Reaction to Intolerable Acts
Massachusetts Provisional Congress wrote Suffolk resolves. VHOB creates 1st Continental Congress.
Suffolk Resolves
Said to boycott British goods and raise militia.
1st Continental Congress (1774)
Radicals (war)
Battle of Lexington
Gage sent to arrest Sons of Liberty and destroy weapons stockpile. British win but Paul Revere and William Dawes warn SOL before British arrival.
Battle of Concord led to...
Seige of Boston
2nd Continental Congress
Continental Army created led by George Washington
Possible Reconciliation = Olive Branch Petition
Committee of 5 write the Declaration of Independence.
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Directly displays ideas of independence.
After Declaration America Divided
Patriots vs. Loyalist (Tories).
British Army vs. Continental Army
Pros vs. Garbage (until Washington)
The American Crisis (Thomas Paine)
Moral boost for soldiers after win at battle of Trenton
British Stratagy (1777)
Sever New England
Battle of Sartoga (1777)
Heratio Gates beats Bergoyne. Treaty of Alliances with France.
Southern Campaign in American Revolution
New Plan for Britain. Probelm = Promise of freeing slaves led to less support.
Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Americans and French led Cornwallis to surrender. Evacuation of British troops.
Treaty of Paris
Ben Franklin
Revolutionary War and Slaves
Many joined British or fled. Slavery not consistent with DOI. Eary abolition efforts rejected by South. Quakers create 1st Anti-Slavery society.
Revolutionary War and Women
Support roles in camp (Molly Pitcher). Role not altered after war.
Revolutionary War and Economy
Greater emphasis on domestic manufacturing and self-suffeciency
Creating State Governments
Bicameralism. Seperation of Powers. Limited Gov. Written Constitutions. Republicanism vs. Democracy.
Separation of church and state
Thomas Jefferson - Statute of Religious Freedom
Creating a National Government
Articles of Confederation - John Dickinson. Unicameral legislature. 1 state= 1 vote. Could wage war
Success of the Articles of Confederation
Land Ordinances of 1784/85 - Statehood application and land surveying. Northwest Ordinance - 5 territories. Banned Slavery.
Problems under AOC
Post-war depression. No tax. Poor money supply
Shay's Rebellion
Rebellion by farmers to stop foreclosures.
Annapolis Convention (1786)
Want to fix gov. and improve economy by revising AOC.
Constitutional Convention
Wrote new Constituion. Virginia + New Jersey Plan = Connecticut (Great) Compromise. 3/5 Compromise. Creation of Executive branch elected by electoral college. Trade/Slave compromise - Interstate trade controlled by Congress. Slave trade left alone until 1808.
Virginia Plan
3 branches. Bicameral. Proportional Representation.
New Jersey Plan
Unicameral. Equal Representation.
Connecticut (Great) Compromise
Bicameral with House (Proportional Rep.) and Senate (Equal Rep.)
3/5 Compromise
Each slave would count for 3/5 of a person for taxation and representation purposes
Debates over ratification of the Constitution
Federalists (in favor) vs. Anti-federalist. Federalist papers invalidated problems.
Constitution
Federalism
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