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Unit 2 Foundations of American Govt

Unit 2 Foundations of American Govt. Colonial Tensions. Seeds of Revolution. Navigation Acts: 1660. Colonies could ONLY trade their goods to England C reated a FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADE for England. England is Exporting (sell) more goods than it is importing (buy)

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Unit 2 Foundations of American Govt

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  1. Unit 2Foundations of American Govt Colonial Tensions

  2. Seeds of Revolution

  3. Navigation Acts: 1660 • Colonies could ONLY trade their goods to England • Created a FAVORABLE BALANCE OF TRADEfor England. • England is Exporting (sell) more goods than it is importing (buy) • Mercantilism – Making money for the mother country.

  4. Triangle Trade Route

  5. French & Indian War: 1754-1763 • War between the British & French over control of the colonies

  6. FRENCH & INDIAN WAR MAPS BEFORE AFTER

  7. Salutary Neglect F & I war: started a period of time of self govtin the Colonies • England was so concerned with the war that they left the colonies alone to govern themselves. • They did not try to regain control until after the war was over.

  8. Post F&I War

  9. The Proclamation of 1763: • British passed this law that prohibited Colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains into French territory. The red line is the Proclamation line

  10. REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD Period in the Americas betweenthe late 1750’s & the mid 1770’s.This period led to the Declaration of Independence & the Revolutionary War.

  11. CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION Navigation Acts (1660) Proclamation Line (Act) (1763) Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765) Quartering Act (1765) Townshend Acts (1767) Writs of Assistance Boston Massacre (1770) Tea Act (1773) Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1774) Battles of Lexington & Concord (Massachusetts) COLONIALOPPOSITION Albany Plan of Union (1754) Sons of Liberty – Stamp Act Stamp Act Congress Boston Tea Party Thomas Paine – Common Sense COLONIAL SOLUTUIONS 1st Continental Congress – drafted letter to King & Parliament demanding rights be restored. 2nd Continental Congress – DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

  12. Sugar Act: 1764 • colonial merchants were required to pay a tax per gallon on imported foreign sugar & molasses

  13. Stamp Act: 1765 Tax on ALL materials printed on paper • All printed goods had to have a special stamp on it • Colonists response to tax: cried “no taxation without representation” (in Parliament) • Stamp Act seemed to hurt the freedom of speech

  14. Quartering Act: 1765 Under this act, if asked, colonists were required by law to provide temporary housing & food to British soldiers. • The colonists considered this an invasion of their privacy

  15. Townshed Acts: 1767 • Tax on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper& tea

  16. Writs of Assistance Blanket searches that allowed soldiers to search whatever, whenever they wanted

  17. Boston Massacre 1770 • By the late 1700’s the British government was very alarmed by colonial protests. • Britain sent regiments of soldiers to keep order. • Colonists provoked a British regiment, & they killed five colonists. • As word spread through the colonies, it became known as the Boston Massacre, a violent confrontation between British soldiers & colonists.

  18. Tea Act: 1773 Tax on tea that was designed to prop up the East India Company (chief tea import company in VA) & was burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea

  19. Boston Tea Party: 1773 Members of Sons of liberty disguised as American Indians boarded British ships in Boston & dumped their tea in the harbor to protest the tea tax.

  20. Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts):1774 Passed to punish the colonists for the Boston tea party. • Closed the Boston harbor • Made colonists pay back the lost tea • Implemented the quartering Act • Stopped town meetings

  21. First Continental Congress: 1774 Appealed to the King about the taxation & lack of representation

  22. Second Continental Congress: 1775 Drafted the Declaration of Independence

  23. 13 Colonies in 1776

  24. Declaration of Independence • Signed July 4, 1776 • Explained why the American Colonies were separating from Great Britain • Listed many abuses the colonies suffered under the British king

  25. 4 parts of Declaration of Independence 1. Preamble (purpose) Introduction Explanation of Separation from England 2. Declaration of Rights General theories of Government People are born with Natural Rights Origin of government was a social contract 3. Grievances **Largest Section Charges against King George III 4. Declaration of Independence Goal was to preserve peace, but forced towards independence

  26. Common Sense: 1776 Written by Thomas Paine arguing it was “common sense” to fight for independence

  27. United States in 1783

  28. Lexington & Concord: 1775 “shot heard round the world” 1st battles of the Revolutionary War

  29. Yorktown: 1781 Last battle of Revolutionary War

  30. Treaty of Paris (1783) • United States gains Independence • British troops to leave US soil • United States gains land to the Mississippi River

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