A.k.a., Things you’ve studied 4 times before. American Revolution Review
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- a.k.a., Things youve studied 4 times before. American
Revolution Review
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- A. Britain as Superpower British advantages: 1) Military Royal
Navy
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- A. Britain as Superpower (cont.) 2) Economics Colonial trading
empire. Mercantilist system. Export > Import.
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- A. Britain as Superpower (cont.) First of the 13 colonies:
Jamestown (Virginia) 1607 Last colony: Settlers trickled in over
150 years. 1750 Population reached 1 million. Georgia 1732
GOLD
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- A. Britain as Superpower (cont.) Why a trickle and not a flood?
California experience: 1848 Gold discovered. 1849 Gold Rush. 1850
Statehood. 1880s Population = 1 million
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- A. Britain as Superpower (cont.) A territory which is:
Economically important (Resource rich with easy money-making
opportunities) Politically important. (Great powers want to own it,
control it, and decide what happens there.) =
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- A. Britain as Superpower (cont.) How were the colonies
governed? British govt. = unitary system. Due to salutary neglect,
the colonies were run by: locallyelectedassemblies.
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- A. Britain as Superpower (cont.) British govt.: American govt.:
Central control. Local control.
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- B. The Seven Years War British v. French 1) North America (F
& I War). 2) Indian subcontinent. 3) Central Europe. Winston
Churchill: Seven Years War = First World War
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- B. The Seven Years War (cont.) Huge British victory. Huge war
debt. Parliament put TAXES directly on the colonies for the first
time.
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- B. The Seven Years War (cont.) We objected for 2 reasons: 1) No
taxation w/o representation. 2) We rejected to the usurpation of
our local decision-making power. To usurp = to take away w/o legal
right.
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- C. Declaration of Independence Two audiences: PROPAGANDA! 1)
Unconvinced colonists. 2) Potential foreign allies.
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- C. Declaration of Independence Based on Social Contract Theory:
Free people created governments, Governments that dont, to protect
their rights. should be overthrown. Main author = Main ideas =
Thomas Jefferson. John Locke.
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- C. Independence! (cont.) 1775-76 Lexington & Concord (1775)
Lexington & Concord (1775) Declaration of Independence
(1776)
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- C. Independence! (cont.) 1777-78 Victories at Saratoga (1777)
Treaty of Alliance w/France (1778)
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- C. Independence! (cont.) 1781-83. Victory at Yorktown (1781)
Treaty of Paris (1783)