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| defined a just society as one in which citizens willingly subordinated their private, selfish interests to the common good...like Greece and Rome |
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| According to republicanism, society functions on.... |
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| selflessness, self-sufficiency, courage, and civic involvement |
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| What were the ideals of radical Whig commentators? |
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Feared the threat to liberty posed by arbitrary power of a monarch and his ministers relative to elected representatives in Parliament.....
against corruption and conspiracies |
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| How many of the 13 colonies were made by the British gov't? |
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| How did the English gov't justify their interference in the colonies? |
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| mercantalism...wealth=power...need gold/silver in treasury, and more exports |
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| What, according to Britain, are the colonies set up to do? |
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Make mother country rich...
make tobacco, sugar, ships' masts, not woolen cloth/beaver hats, buy British stuff, and not rebel |
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| Name 4 English Navigation Laws |
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-Don't trade with Dutch
-Only trade in British vessels
-Goods heading to America must land in Britain, get tariffs, and give money to British middlemen
-Only ship certain products (like tobacco) to Britain |
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| What happened regarding currency as a result of the English Navigation Laws? |
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| There was a huge shortage of it!! |
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Because of the currency shortage, what were colonies forced to do?
What happened because of that? |
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-print paper money
-British merchants/creditors made Parliament prohibit paper money and bankruptcy laws |
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| V/F: Parliament was able to nullify laws in the colonies |
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| In what year were British Navigation laws enforced? |
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| To whom did London pay lots of $ to ship WHAT? |
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| Colonial producers, ship parts |
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| Why did VA tobacco planters benefit from English Navigation Laws? |
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| Why did all colonists benefit from being in the British empire? |
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| Protected by best navy in the world, & redcoats |
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| What stifled economic initiative in the colonies? |
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NAME THAT MAN:
George Grenville |
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-British prime minister
-Told navvy to enforce Navigation Laws in 1763
-Passed Sugar Act (1764)
(first time Parliament raised colonial taxes!!) |
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| Tax on sugar & molasses from W. Indies, lowered by colonists |
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-Tax on paper goods
-Much heavier in Britain
-Colonists saw it as impeding on rights |
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| Why didn't the colonists see a need to pay for defense? |
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| French, Pontiac troops gone |
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| According to colonists, what kind of laws can Parliament pass/ |
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| laws for empire and trade, not taxes in America...only the local gov't could do that |
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| Define: virtual representation |
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| Our representatives are supposed to represent all British citizens |
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DEFINE:
Stamp Act Congress (1765) |
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-27 delegates in NY
-made a statement of grievances
-largely unnoticed. |
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What did the widespread non-importation agreements that followed the Stamp Acts entail?
Why did this catch on so quickly? |
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-Lamb chops: bad....woolen garments: good
-Gave ordinary people chance to participate |
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-What was the motto of the sons/daughters of Liberty?
-What did the sons do? |
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-"Liberty, Property, and No Stamps."
-ransacked houses of officials |
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| When the Stamp Act was supposed to go into effect, what happened? |
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| No one was left to enforce it |
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| DEFINE: The Declaratory Act |
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| -reaffirmed Parliament's right to "bind" the colonies "in all cases whatsoever" |
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| When the stamp act was repealed, what did NYers do in regards to the British monarchy? |
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| Made a statue of King George III |
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NAME THAT MAN:
Townshend (not Pete) |
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-"Champagne Charley"
-Got Parliament to pass Townshend Acts of 1767
-Taxed glass, white lead, paper, paint, and tea |
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| Why didn't colonists like the Townshend acts? |
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| The revenue was earmarked to pay royal governors |
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| Why was the NY legislature suspended in 1767? |
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| Did not comply with Quartering Act |
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| While non-importation agreements did not come back as strongly when the Townshend Acts were pass, THIS illegal act still ensued |
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| What were colonists' reactions when two regiments of red coated "ruffians" showed up in 1768? |
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| Thought they were drunken and profane. |
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| On what date was the Boston Massacre? |
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-60 townspeople throw snowballs at redcoats
-still mad at 11 year old boy shot during protests
-11 died
-John Adams defended soldiers |
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| Who was among the first to die in the Boston Massacre? |
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| King George III was a bad ruler, and surrounded himself with these people in his court who agreed with everything he said |
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| V/F: Lord North was in charge of the "yes men" |
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| While Parliament repealed most of their taxes, which one did they keep alive, and why? |
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| Tea...brings revenue, and wanted to keep Parliament's ability to tax the colonies alive |
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| Who organized the Committees of Correspondence in 1772 Boston? |
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-What was the purpose of the Committees of Correspondence?
-What was their other name? |
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-Keep opposition to British alive
-Committees of Public Safety (minutemen/stockpiled weapons) |
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| How did all colonies get to the point of setting up a standing committee for grievances towards the British? |
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| House of Burgesses started it |
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| In 1773, THIS company got a nice monopoly on tea. How did the colonists see this? |
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British East India Co.
The prices were cheaper, but the colonists thought they were being duped into actually paying the taxes |
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-How did citizens of Philly and NY protest the tea monopoly?
-In Annapolis?
-In Charleston?
-In Boston? |
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-demonstrations
-burned cargo, vessels
-officials seized tea for nonpayment when merchants refused delivery
-Threw tea overboard |
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NAME THAT MAN:
Thomas Hutchinson |
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| Wouldn't let tea ships clear Boston harbor until they had unloaded their cargoes. |
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| On what date was the Boston Tea Party? |
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| How did conservatives see the Boston tea Party? |
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| -breaking the law, anarchy |
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| V/F: Some saw tea as a "badge of slavery" |
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| Closed harbor until damages were paid, and order ensued |
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| What law concerning British soldier murderers angered colonists? |
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| Law said that soldiers murdering colonists in the line of duty would be tried in Britain, where colonists figured they could get off Scot-Free |
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NAME THAT LEGISLATION:
Quebec Act |
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-Colonists thought it was a reaction to the tea party
-gave Frenchmen a right to Catholicism, old customs, old boundaries
-Upset Catholics, land speculators looking beyond the Alleghenies, and colonists who noticed that the Intolerable acts were focused on MA, but the Quebec Act had a much broader range |
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-When did the first Continental Congress meet?
-Who led it?
-What did he convince delegates to do? |
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-1774
-John Adams
-Go the revolutionary route, not the moderate route of home rule with British discretion |
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| Name 3 things to come out of the 1st Continental Congress |
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-Declaration of Rights
-Solemn appeals to British American colonists, king, and British people
-The Association |
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NAME THAT DOCUMENT
The Association |
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-No British imports, exports, or consumption
-meet back in May 1775 if this doesn't work |
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| Describe what happened in Lexington in April, 1775 |
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-British Boston commander sent troops to nearby Lexington to bag "revel" regulators John Hancock and Sam Adams
-8 killed in what was essentially a Lexington massacre |
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| Describe what happened in Concord in April, 1775 |
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| The British retreated from the rebel militiamen!! (minutemen) |
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| What did the British have in their favor going into the war? (4) |
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-7.5 mil British against 2.5 mil Americans
-Large, professionally trained army
-Treasury to hire German soldiers (Hessians), and American Loyalists
-Kickass navy |
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| What was going against the Britsh going into the war? (8) |
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-Ireland wanted to revolt
-France wanted revenge
-No more Willam Pitt - just George and North
-British Whigs wanted Tories to lose
-Second-rate generals dispatched in America
-Poorly treated soldiers
-Distance factor to soldiers
-Redcoats had to deal w/ whining colonists |
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| What did the Americans have going for them going into the war? (6) |
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-no one city/center to crush
-Great leaders
-French foreign aid
-European officers volunteering
-Defensive position
-Belief that their side was a just cause |
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NAME THAT MAN:
Marquis Lafayette |
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-19-year-old French (American serving) major general
-Helped secure aid from France |
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| What did the Americans have going against them going into the war? |
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-Bad organization/unity
-Poorly trained army
-Starved militiamen
-continental money |
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| Where did Americans get a lot of military supplies? |
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NAME THAT MAN:
Baron von Steuben |
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| German who whipped American militamen into shape |
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| Name a famous black rebel soldier |
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NAME THAT MAN;
Lord Dunmore |
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-VA governor
-Promised freedom for any slave who joined British army
-kept word to some...evacuated them to Nova Scotia, Jamaica, and England at the war's end |
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| For merchants, profit came from selling to which side? |
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| Define: both quartering acts |
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1765: funding to provide lodging for troops
1774: station troops in your private homes-intolerable act |
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| Why did continental currency fluctuate? |
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| No regulation - currency has arbitrary value anyway |
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| Why was the stamp act a direct tax? |
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-directly from Parliament
-bypassed colonial legislatures
-Directly pay for stamp |
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| THIS MAN's speeches rallied against the stamp acct |
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| Who came up with the phrase "no taxation...[blah, blah blah]" |
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| Sam Adams was a radical of THIS ideology |
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| The Declatory Act came as a reaction to what? |
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| Repealing of the Stamp Act |
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Define: writs of assistance
What act are they associated with? |
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Stuff that law enforcement can use to enforce laws
Townshend |
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| The Gaspee was a British anti-smuggling ship of 1772 |
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| Why was the British East India company granted a monopoly? |
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| Parliament members had stakes in the company |
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| V/F: All the British wanted was repayment for the damage incurred by the Boston Tea Party |
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| not really. They cracked down on colonists instead |
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-What were the Intolerable Acts?
-What is another name for them? |
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-1. Boston Port ACt
2. MA Government Act
-royal governor chooses all MA gov't officials
-suspended town meetings to 1/yr/where/governor said
3. Administration of Justice Act(AKA "Muder Act")
-violators of MA laws tried in England
4. Quartering Act
-Colonists had to allow soldiers in their private homes
-Coercive Acts |
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| The 1st Contintental Congress was the colonist reaction to what Parliamentary action? |
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| Who lead the British side of Lexington? |
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-Lieutenant Colonel Smith
-Major Pitcairn |
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| Name one rider that joined Paul Revere |
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| On what days did the battles of Lexington and Concord occur? |
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| V/F:Patriot troops at Concord had abt 77 men, while the British had 700 |
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| Who was the captain of the American militia at Concord? |
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| What military advancement did the British have at Concord? |
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| What was the American musket at Concord called? |
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| THIS Colonel saved people at Lexington |
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