1700-1800 in America

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  • Delaware

    proprietary

  • Privy Council

    regulating value of foreign coins according to silver content, print money (tax anticipation, asset-backed currency)

  • Board of Trade

    royal governors to veto any paper issues
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    The Enlightenment

    John Locke, Ben Franklin
    Human reasoning, natural rights, progressive improvement of society.
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    The Great Awakening

    Deism- clockwork, natural philosophy of religion
    Halfway Covenant
    George Whitfield (18,000 sermons)
    Jonathan Edwards (Sinners at the hands of an angry God)

  • Georgia

    buffer zone, John Barnwell, refuge for the poor and debtors, Became royal after the Spanish War

  • Georgia allowed slavery

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    French and Indian War

    Ohio River Valley, 7 years war, Treaty of Paris 1763

  • Sugar Act

    replaced molasses act, vice-admiralty courts, coffee silk and wine

  • Currency Act

    threatened to destabilize the entire colonial economy

  • Stamp Act Congress

    9 delegates from colonies petition to the king.

  • Stamp Act

    1st direct tax, must bear stamp, wills newspapers pamphlets bills dice playing cards, violators will be tried without juries.
    Raised "innocent until proven guilty, trial by jury, and not taxation without representation" rights.

  • Quartering Act

    each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers

  • Declaratory Act

    repeals stamp act, parliament has dominion over colonies

  • Townshend duties

    paper, paint, lead, glass, tea, repealed in 1770

  • Revenue Act

    created board of customs, commissions

  • Boston Massacre

    5 Bostonians and 2 boys laid dead. John Adams rep'd soldiers

  • Tea Act

    to save east india company, trojan horse,

  • Boston Tea Party

    thomas hutchinson, 30-130 men dressed in mohawk costumes dumped 342 chests of tea

  • Coercive Acts (intolerable)

    1. port bill (closed boston port)
    2. Mass Regulating Act (ended self-rule)
    3. Administration of Justice Act (Protect royal officials in Mass)
    4. New Quartering Act (All American colonies provide housing)

  • First Continental Congress

    56 delegates, free debate, declaration of rights and grievances. disbanded October 26, 1774.

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

    "shot heard round the world"

  • Capture of Fort Ticonderoga

    Benedict Arnold and the Green Mountain Boys

  • Second Continental Congress

    named George Washington head of continental army

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

    did the british really win?

  • Common Sense Pamphlet

    Thomas Paine

  • Declaration of Independence

    Unanimously voted for independence.

  • Congress Adopts the Declaration

  • Washington's Risky Plan

    wanted to boost moral and support

  • France recognizes our Independence

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    Valley Forge

    most difficult winter, von stuben (imposter)

  • Battle of Saratoga (NY)

    Turning point of war, British surrendered

  • Benedict Arnold

    tried to sell west point to British, got caught

  • Articles of Confederation

  • Cornwallis Surrenders at Yorktown

    The colonies and France had the British surrounded

  • Treaty of Paris

    terms: independence, land, give back loyalists
    *we didn't help France until 1941
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    Shay's Rebellion

    demanded reduced property taxes

  • US Constitution Adopted

    signed on September 17, 1787
    but we had to wait for dumb New Hampshire

  • Judiciary Act

    est judiciary system

  • First President

    George Washington (unanimously elected by electoral college)

  • Election of 1796

    John Adams (Fed)

  • Alien and Sedition Acts

    designed to repress freedom of speech. 4 acts in total

  • Death of George Washington

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