Chapter 1 THE NEW NATION

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Chapter 1THE NEW NATION

• Section 1 Early Exploration and Settlement
• Section 2 The English Colonies
• Section 3 Independence!
• Section 4 Founding the Nation

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Objectives
Section 3 Independence!

• What British laws and acts angered colonists?
• How did the colonists respond to British actions?
• Why did the colonists declare independence?
• How did the colonists win the Revolutionary War?

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British acts that angered colonists
Section 3 Independence!

• Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Coercive Acts
• Tea Act
• Townshend Act
• sugar and molasses tax

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Colonists response
Section 3 Independence!

• boycotts
• Sons of Liberty
• Stamp Act Congress
• Boston Tea Party
• First Continental Congress

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Reasons for declaring independence
Section 3 Independence!

• King George IIIs misdeeds
• establishment of the doctrine of inalienable
  rights
• belief that people have the right to abolish a
  government that deprives them of those rights

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Reasons for colonists victory
Section 3 Independence!

• Surprise attacks compensated for troop shortages.
• British mistakes at Saratoga and Yorktown allowed
  colonial victories.
• Colonists took advantage of terrain with
  guerrilla warfare.
• Alliance with France provided arms and troops.