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This was to create their own assembly
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Regulating value of foreign coins according to silver content
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Ordered royal governors to veto any paper issues
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This colony was very poor and a refuge for debtors in jails
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Catholic governor fo Florida promised freedom to fugitive slaves.
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Georgia allowed a small community of Jews settle during the 1740's
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Parliament passed an act forbidding anyone from accepting as legal tender any paper money issued by New England colonies
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Britain's success in this was one of the important causes of the American Revolution
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Ships of neutral countries could not trade with ports in which they had been excluded before the war
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Honor promises made to Delaware and Iroquois "Forthwith to remove themselves from such settlements
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Threatened to destabilize the entire colonial economy
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Replaced Molasses Act of 1733. Vice-admiralty courts
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Each colonial assembly was directed to provide for the basic needs of soldiers stationed within borders. Colonial reaction: traditional fear of standing Armies and cost of expenses was no small matter
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Delegates from 9 colonies, petition to the King, and Parliament alarmed at violence of colonial protestors
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Townshend demanded full compliance
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First direct tax on American colonies and must bear a stamp.
Taxed items: wills, newspapers, pamphlets, bills, licenses, almanacs, dice, playing cards. Violators will be tried and convicted without juries in vice-admiralty courts -
“had, hath, and of right ought to have full power and authority to make laws and statues of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever”
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Taxed paper, paint, lead, glass, tea
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Created Board of Customs and Commissioners
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Resolutions written by George Mason and opposed taxation without representation. Royal governor of Virginia dissolved House of Burgesses
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It was on a cold winter day, British patrolling streets. Shots fired and five Bostonians and two boys laid dead. John Adams represented soldiers, blamed incident on mob. Jury agreed.
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George Washington formed the Continental Army. Olive Branch Petition was appealed to George III and hoped to avoid war. The committee that wrote, were Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Rutledge, John Jay, and William Livingston. King George refused to receive It.
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Not enacted to generate revenue, proposed to give monopoly to East India Company on direct sales to the colonies. Did not boycott instead destroyed tea/sent back to England
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Bostonians would not let tea be unlocked. 30-130 men dressed in Mohawk costumes and many witnesses and spectators to the event that night.
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Greatly upset American colonists
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There were 56 delegates. It was structured with emphasis on equality of participants and to promote free debate. Great Britain reacted to Continental Congress as an illegal assembly
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This abolished property ownership as test of citizenship and protected citizens from imprisonment for debt.
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This book explained his thoughts on sharing of power and bicameral legislature.
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In Yorktown, the British had to surrender from the British and American as they were surrounded by American and French armies.
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The impact of the British surrender at Saratoga lead to French supporting them, which helped France being recognized independence of the United States.
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General Horatio Gates jumps on Burgoyne at Saratoga and British surrendered
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George Washington's Army marched out of Valley Forge in pursuit of British who left Philadelphia. This impacted Washington as he could not force a do or die battle strategy as General Clinton moved land operations to the South. The British captured Savannah, but the war was tiring on the colonies shortly after.
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This created procedures of 5 future states, survey of northwest territory and sale of land. This became asserted and principles were adopted by governments established by Constitution of 1787
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This rebellion threaten to collapse the young nation and tax laws favored trade at expense of agriculture. In 1786, Daniel Shay demanded property taxes to be reduced. He showed the need for a stronger central government
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Delaware - December 7, 1787
Pennsylvania - December 12, 1787
New Jersey - December 18, 1787
Georgia - January 2, 1788
Connecticut - January 9, 1788
Massachusetts - February 6, 1788
Maryland - April 26, 1788
South Carolina - May 23, 1788
New Hampshire - June 21, 1788
Virginia - June 25, 1788
New York - July 26, 1788
North Carolina - November 21, 1788
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Established a federal judiciary system with a federal district court and circuit court
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Proposed a charter for 20 years in 1791 with a purpose to secure repository for government, provide loans to federal government, and manage nation's money supply
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Grain was the most valuable cash crop at the time. Hamilton's whiskey tax is a burden on western farmers. In the fall of 1791, they adopted methods from Revolutionary War and Shay's Rebellion in Pennsylvania. The farmers then scattered years later.
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This election had John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and Thomas Pinckney run for presidency. John Adams won with Thomas Jefferson as Vice President. This is important to mention as they come from different parties.
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John Jay sent to Britain. This treaty had compensated ships seized, opened trade in India, evacuated western forms, and no words of Impressment.
