The American Revolution

The land proclamation act of 1763 is about?

It meant the colonies can not cross the mountains one because of the Native Americans and two because of the mercantilism which meant they cant be too far from Britain.

What is the big question of the American revolution?

The big question is why did the colonist revolt?

The American revolution was separated into three schools

The economical school, The imperial school, and the ideological school.

Which school was extrinsic and intrinsic?

The imperial school was extrinsic because they wanted the benefits of being free, while the ideological school was intrinsic because they wanted the right to be free/for the things of freedom itself.

The imperial school

They believe to own the land and be independent which was autonomous/ self ruling/ and patriotism. Again they wanted the benefits of being free. Their defense is they were fighting for a constitutional relationship of the two wars but it was suspicious.

What was the two were suspicious in the imperial school?

In 1763 which was the end of the French war to 1776 which was the Indian/British war we could see was an action causing a reaction of a war. After the French were gone admit that the colonies no longer needed protection from France but British on the land which didn’t make sense if they want to be independent that means they will have to battle the super power of the world which is British it also didn’t make sense because it seems that it would be easy to take over them. This shows there’s not enough cause for a war because no one‘s going to do suicide fighting a superpower just to be by themselves and be independent.

The economical school

The founding fathers conspired to become rich by convincing the masses that Britain would eventually make them dirt poor. The founding fathers and the pamphleteers also Convinced them that they lived on the coast which would make them rich if they owned the land Because the land was Costal with shipping and it was mereautilism.

What was the economical school’s argument?

It was all revolutions and wars were about money therefore this one had to be about money to mathematically but in this particular history this argument was false. Because a man named Gardon wood Bailey found out that they did not actually live there on the coast. This argument was also false because it will only explain why they would revolt if they were dirt poor, but they said they would be dirt poor that means they’re still rich at that time and also means that they wouldn’t revolt if they still are rich because they will also be suicide it wouldn’t make sense to fight against a big army for more money than you already have.

The ideological school

They revolted to protect their unalienable rights . The idea was to fight for limited government in uphold the social contract for freedom/the right to be free. They said all this with 5000 pamphleteer.

What’s the counter argument of the ideological school

The only counter argument is they lied because it’s too good to be true that 5000 people said this. There’s no way it’s true that all 5000 would say the exact same story.

They all revolted because of what?

They were voted because they were treated bad and went up to fight against the king and his army.