EVENTS LEAD to WAR

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EVENTS LEAD to WAR
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• Pre-Game
• Triangle Trade
  Navigation Acts
• Salutary Neglect (self-rule)
• French Indian War
• Albany Plan / Congress (NO
  cooperation)
• AFTER THE WAR!!!!!!!!!
• 1st Quarter
• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar/Quartering/Stamp
• Patrick Henry (others)
• Stamp Act Congress
• Sons /Daughters of Liberty
• Boycotts
• Stamp Act Repealed

• 2nd Quarter
• Declaratory Act (king)
• Townshend Acts
• (Americans Respond)
• Public Actions
• Samuel Adams / others Open Articles
• Protests (Open)
• Boston Massacre -Crispus
  Attucks
• Committees of Correspondence

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• 3rd Quarter
• Lord North
• Gaspee Affair
• Boston Tea Party - East
  India Co.
• 1774 Intolerable Acts
• Gen. Gage Martial Law
• 1st Continental Congress
• 1st Bloodshed-
  Lexington Concord

• 4th Quarter
• 2nd Continental Congress
• Siege of BOSTON
• Ft. Ticonderoga -Ethan
  Allen Green Mtn.
• Bunker Hill
• Olive Branch Petition
• Thomas Paines COMMON
  SENSE
• Declaration of
  Independence
• NEW BALLGAME
• THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGINS

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Ch. 4 1 CLASS NOTESEvents Lead to WAR
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How We Went from Loyal British Subjects
toFIGHTING FOR INDEPENDENCE

• Pre-Game
• (The FRENCH INDIAN WAR)
• We change They change
• 1st Qtr (FAIR) (Quiet Boycott)
• 2nd Qtr (FIRM) (Louder Violent)
• 3rd Qtr (NICE) (Stay Stirred Up)
• 4th Qtr (HARD) (Defend Ourselves)
• NEW BALLGAME (Declare WAR)
• NO Govt, No Army-Navy, NO Money,
• NO Majority Support for War -30

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• Pre-Game
• Triangle Trade
  Navigation Acts
• Salutary Neglect (Lenient Self-Rule)
• French Indian War
• Albany Plan / Congress (NO
  cooperation)
• AFTER THE WAR!!!!!!!!!
• 1st Quarter
• Proclamation of 1763
• Sugar/Quartering/Stamp
• Patrick Henry (others)
• Stamp Act Congress
• Sons /Daughters of Liberty
• Boycotts
• Stamp Act Repealed

• 2nd Quarter
• Declaratory Act (king)
• Townshend Acts
• (Americans Respond)
• Public Actions
• Samuel Adams / others Open Articles
• Protests (Open)
• Boston Massacre -Crispus
  Attucks

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• 3rd Quarter
• Lord North
• Committees of Correspondence
• Gaspee Affair
• Boston Tea Party - East
  India Co.
• 4th Quarter
• 1774 Intolerable Acts
• Gen. Gage Martial Law
• 1st Continental Congress
• 1st Bloodshed-
  Lexington Concord

• 2nd Continental Congress
• Olive Branch Petition
• Siege of BOSTON
• Ft. Ticonderoga -Ethan
  Allen Green Mtn.
• Bunker Hill
• Thomas Paines COMMON
  SENSE
• Declaration of
  Independence
• NEW BALLGAME
• REVOLUTIONARY WAR BEGINS

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Britain sends Troops/Taxes

• Navigation Acts (1660)
• SMUGGLING EVERYWHERE
• Royal Proclamation of 1763
• 1764 - SUGAR ACT
• 1765
• -STAMP ACT
  -QUARTERING ACT
• PATRICK HENRY ( 7 resolutions )
• NO Taxation W/O Representation
• Samuel Adams

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ORGANIZED RESISTANCE

• SONS/DAUGHTER OF LIBERTY
• Samuel Adams
• BOYCOT or NONIMPORTATION
• Stamp Act Congress
• John Adams (9) 1765
• MARCH 1766 STAMP ACT REPEALED
• DECLARATORY ACT
• Parliament and the King have the FULL RIGHT to
  TAX the colonies

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RESISTANCE CONTINUES

• 67 TOWNSHEND ACTS
• Indirect Taxes/Duties
• American Responses
• 1768 Liberty seized
• John Hancock
• PUBLIC ARTICLES
• SAMUEL ADAMS
• March 1770 Boston
  Massacre -Crispus Attucks

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TENSIONS CONTINUE

• 1770-1773 NORTH
• GASPEE AFFAIR
• COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE threats to liberty
• British East India Co.
• Tea Monopoly
• Tea Act (free of tax)
• Dec. 1773 Boston Tea
  Party
• 1774 PASSES INTOLERABLE ACTS

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AMERICANS REACT

• GEN. GAGE declares
  MARTIAL LAW in Boston
• 1ST (SEPT/1774)
  CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
• APRIL 19, 1775
• LEXINGTON CONCORDE
  shot heard round the WORLD

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FIRST BLOODSHED
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FIRST BLOODSHED
Siege of Boston ____________________ 2nd
Continental Congress
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2nd Continental Congress

• Military Actions

• Peace Actions

Siege of BOSTON Ft. Ticonderoga
Bunker Hill
Peace Delegations Olive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence
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After Lexington Concord

• Siege of Boston
• 20,000 Troops
• Fort Ticonderoga
• Ethan Allen Green Mtn. Boys
• Cannons for the Siege
• Burgoyne, Clinton Howe
• Battle of Bunker Hill
• Breeds Hill

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Fort Ticonderoga
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence
Battle of Bunker Hill
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Ch. 4 - 2 "Ideas Influence Independence"

• SQR-3 Reading Notes Chapter 4 - 2
  IDEAS INFLUENCE INDEPENDENCE
  and the Last Events Leading to Revolution
• The Declaration of Independence (pg. 109)

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• IDEAS that INFLUENCE
• DECLARING INDEPENDENCE
• 1215 Magna Carta -
  Limits Power of the KING
• 1689 English Bill of Rights
• Age of Enlightenment
  IDEAS GROW-SPREAD

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New Ideas Spread

• John Locke Natural Rights (1689)
• GOD gave people rights (pyramid)
• Iiteracy - America vs. Europe (protestant)
• What made the Am. colonies different?
• 1- English History
• Magna Carta (limited the power of the King)
• Charter (Salutary Neglect) Self-Rule
• 2- Puritans (beliefs traditions)
• Religion Education

People (God) The King (to
serve)
King (God) The people (to serve)
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• Education Expands (Great Awakening)
• Harvard, William Mary, Yale, Princeton,
  Columbia, Penn., Brown, Rutgers (Ivy League)
• Written Word
• Almanacs
• Newspapers
• Pamphlets
• John Peter Zenger Trial - Precedent
• (Freedom of Press) 1734

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Ideas Behind the Revolution

• Thomas Paine Common Sense
• 500,000 copies (47 page pamphlet)
• Declaration of Independence

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Reasons EncourageDeclaration of Independence

• Treatment of War Prisoners v. Traitors
• Military confidence from Early Incidents
• Lexington/Concord
• Siege of Boston
• Ft. Ticonderoga
• Bunker Hill
• Colonists Angry British use of mercenaries

• John Locke, Thomas Pains others Ideas
• Common Sense
• Financial Advantages
• Trade/Commerce
• American Destiny
• Better Society

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• May 1776 2nd Continental Congress
• Richard Henry Lee - These United Colonies are,
  and of a right ought to be, free and independent
  states
• John Adams(Ma)
• Thomas Jefferson(Va)
• Benjamin Franklin(Pn)
• Robert Livingston(NY) Roger
  Sherman(C)
• SLAVERY PARAGRAPH
• Abigail Adams ( womens rights )

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Basic Ideas of theDeclaration of Independence

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Democratic Philosophy of Govern
• 3. List of Grievances w/ England
• 4. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

• -decided to dissolve the political bonds which
  have connected them with England to declare
  Independence
• declare to the world the reasons they are
  seperating from Britian

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2. Democratic Philosophy

• All men are created equal, endowed by their
  creator with certain inalienable rights
• GOD gave us rights
• To secure these rights, govt is constituted
  derive their powers from the consent of the
  governed
• Govt must protect those rights

• Whenever govt does not follow its social
  contract, people have the right to abolish it
• People have the right to change the government if
  it doesnt protect those rights

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Basic Ideas of theDeclaration of Independ.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Democratic Philosophy of Govern
• 3. List of Grievances w/ England
• LONG LIST of wrongs from the KING
• Excuse WHY we are declaring Independence
• 4. Conclusion

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BRITISH

• NAVY (LARGE)
• FACTORIES
• ENGINEERS
• NONCOMMISSION OFFICERS
• CENTRAL GOVT
• WEALTH
• SUPPORT at Home

• -
• SHORT TROOPS (MERCENARIES) -Hessians
• 3,000 M ILES
• UNFAMILIAR GROUND
• SMOOTHBORE WEAPONS

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AMERICANS

• Idealistic Cause
• Familiar Ground
• Warfare Tactics
• Rifles
• Foreign Support

• -
• NO Navy
• NO Organized Military
• NO Central Govt
• NO Finances