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- Less religion
- Education
- Communication w/ printing press |
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| - Bypassed mercantilism w/ tri trade + producing items themselves |
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| Colonial Gov't (Start of unit) |
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- Passed laws, made taxes
- Elections
- Depended more on these gov'ts than Britain |
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- Parliament forces king to sign
- Freedom of speech ( in Parl.)
- No tax w/o represent.
- Cruel + unusual punishment
- Petition, bear arms, + trial by jury |
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- Property owners vote
- Assemblies pass laws + taxes
- Magna Carta privileges
- Own court system |
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- Salem witchcraft
- Peter Zenger (freedom of press) |
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- Bypasses Mercantilism
- For this Colonists must be taxed! |
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| - Scares people on frontier to keep us from settling West |
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| Proclamation Line of 1763 |
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- First PM
- Raise money
-Sugar, Stamp, and Currency Acts |
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- Sugar: Make money, enforced by troops
- Currency: Can't print 'worthless' money
- Stamp Act: Taxes on all documents |
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- Colonists form Stamp Act Congress
* Patrick Henry: No tax w/o represent.
- Sons of Liberty form too
- Act repealed, Rockingham elected |
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| - Declaratory Act, gave parl. full power over colonies |
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- Replaces Rockingham
- Very fair, but Townshend looks over him
- Resigns after position over colonies taken |
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- W/ Will Pitt
- Townshend Acts
* A lot of things, but w/ very little on each
- Dies and replaced by Lord North |
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- Colonist angry at soldiers stationed, attack them
- 8 die
- Sons of Liberty gain support
- Also John Adams
- Lord north repeals Townshend acts to make colonist's happy, but bad thing, was a tax they liked better |
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- Colonists burn down ship that was stopping smuggling
- English unhappy
- Causes king to put own people in charge of courts and places of power in colonies |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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- Formed first in Boston
- Spread to other colonies
- Sons of Liberty revival
- Decide to collectively boycott things |
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- Tea act: Tax on all tea except gov't tea
- Intolerable Acts |
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- Sons of Liberty
- Organized, nonviolent
- Against tea act |
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Boston Port bill sieges ships going/coming to/from Boston
- Mass. Gov't Act takes away colonial gov't
- Quartering act gives search warrants, infallibility, and right to live in people's homes to soldiers
- Quebec act restricts colonial travel |
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| First Continental Congress |
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- All colonies
- Boycott Brit. goods
- Declaration of Rights + Grievances
- Meet again |
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- Leader of the Brit. army
- Orders to get Sons of Liberty leaders (SAM AD and J HAN!)
- Fails at a bridge, retreats |
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- Start of the war
- Also Paul Revere (+ Will Daws)
- Lexington: 8 colonists die, Brits bust through
- Guerrilla tactics give Brit's heavy casualties, they retreat |
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