- Role of colonies in Seven Years War?
- Worked with GB
- Albany Congress: Made to plan treaty with Natives, failed
- Native life changes in the 18th century?
- Natives began losing more land
- Pontiac’s Rebellion, failed
- Impact of French & Indian War on GB & colonies?
- GB: Land increase, tensions with colonists, debt
- Colonies: More military experience, optimism towards future, tensions with GB
- How did England raise money from colonists?
- Higher taxes (Various acts)
- How did violence in Boston Spring 1775 affect Second Continental Congress?
- Continental Army was proposed, Washington in charge
- Olive Branch Petition: Asked GB to delay military attacks
- Why did US declare independence?
- End of salutary neglect
- Mercantilism
- Enlightenment thinking
- Taxes
- What is the three part structure of DOI?
- Preamble
- Body
- Conclusion
- What Enlightenment philosopher most influenced Thomas Jefferson and DOI?
- John Locke
- Why was it difficult of Continental Congress to make an army?
- No trained soldiers
- Colonies did not want to donate ppl and supplies
- Turning point in revolution?
- Battle of Saratoga, convinced France to help USA
- Why did America win?
- French help
- Fighting on their own land, had time to strategize before GB could arrive
- How did war disrupt US lives?
- Men left for war, women stepped up
- Battle was close to civilians
- How radical was the Revolution?
- Very, wanted liberty & equality
- Helped marginalized groups
- AOC successes and failures?
- Successes: Won revolution, Land Ordinance, Northwest Ordinance
- Failures: No trade regulation, no tax power, no enforcing power
- Role of Shay’s Rebellion in Constitutional Convention?
- States did not give money to stop rebellion, claimed it was MA problem
- Father of the Constitution?
- James Madison
- Proposed Virginia plan
- Federalist papers
- Why is the Constitution a bundle of compromises?
- Great Compromise: Virginia and NJ Plan, House is pop rep and Senate is equal
- ⅗ Compromise: Five slaves add three to population of a state
- Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise: National gov regulates trade except no taxing exports or banning slave trade for twenty years
- What are the underlying principles of the Constitution?
- Limited government: Gov is not all powerful (no nobility)
- Popular Sovereignty: The ppl have power & right to vote
- Separation of Powers: Gov has 3 branches
- Checks and Balances: Each branch can restrict others
- Federalism: National gov and state govs