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MR. LIPMAN’S APUS REVIEW

MR. LIPMAN’S APUS REVIEW. Unit II Chapters 6-9. Spain, England, and France are fighting for control of the New World and World domination (1688-1763) Albany Congress (1754) 1 st attempt to bring colonies together (want Indian help against French) but plans voted down by colonies

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MR. LIPMAN’S APUS REVIEW

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  1. MR. LIPMAN’S APUS REVIEW Unit II Chapters 6-9

  2. Spain, England, and France are fighting for control of the New World and World domination (1688-1763) • Albany Congress (1754) 1st attempt to bring colonies together (want Indian help against French) but plans voted down by colonies • 1756-1763 (French and Indian War aka the 7 years war) ends with Treaty of Paris • Americans allied with English but just 12 years later they will be fighting England • Debt from French and Indian war changes everything

  3. Steps to the Revolution: • Proclamation of 1763 • End of Salutary Neglect • No Taxation without Representation • Sugar Act • Quartering Act • Stamp Act and the Stamp Act Congress • Townsend Act {Indirect taxes instead of direct} • Boston Massacre (1770) • Boston (and others) Tea Party (1773) • Intolerable Acts passed in response

  4. First Continental Congress (1774) • Lexington and Concord (April 1775) • Bunker Hill (June 1775) • Second Continental Congress and Olive Branch • Common Sense (January 1776) • Lee’s Resolution leads to Jefferson’s Declaration • Loyalists vs. Patriots • Hope for foreign aid (French) will not come until Saratoga brings turning point of the war

  5. The Revolutionary War: • Battle of New York • Battle of Trenton • Battle of Saratoga ( Oct. 1777) • Battle of Monmouth (1778) • Yorktown (1781) brings final major victory and leads to Paris Peace Treaty of 1783 • Formal recognition of American Independence • Issue of Property Rights and acknowledgment of private debts will remain a problem

  6. Problems following the War: • Debts and Inflation • Lack of strong central government (Articles of Confederation are not working) • Shay’s Rebellion (1786) • Land claims by different colonies • Loyalty to colony not to United states • Annapolis Convention (Maryland) 1786 • Land Ordinance of 1785 and Northwest Ordinance of 1787 are two good things to come out of the Articles of Confederation

  7. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (1787) • Great Compromise (Virginia Plan vs. NJ Plan) leads to Bi-Cameral legislature (aka Conn. Plan) • 3/5ths Compromise (& 20 year importation) • Electoral College • Checks and Balances • Separation of Powers • Federalism Ratification and the fight between Federalists and Anti-Federalists (need 3/4th of states) Federalist Essays (Hamilton, Madison, Jay)

  8. A Republican Form of Government has three great Principles: Government based upon consent of the People Powers of Government should be limited Each branch of Government must be checked and limited by another Locke; Hobbes; Montesquieu; Rousseau

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