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REVOLUTION. Long term causes. 1. Mercantilism -colonies used to make money -no manufacturing allowed 2. Navigation Acts -colonies can only trade with England Salutary Neglect. Tradition of self government -Mayflower Compact -House of Burgesses -Fundamental Orders
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Long term causes 1. Mercantilism -colonies used to make money -no manufacturing allowed 2. Navigation Acts -colonies can only trade with England • Salutary Neglect
Tradition of self government -Mayflower Compact -House of Burgesses -Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -TOWN MEETINGS
French and Indian War -Proclamation of 1763 -DEBT--------> TAXES!!!!!! -Sugar -taxed imports -strengthened smuggling laws
Short term causes • Stamp Act (1765): -special stamps for all documents -taxed every colonist -Sons of Liberty -Samuel Adams -Stamp Act Congress -boycotts -tarring and feathering
2. Quartering Act -colonists must house troops -Writs of assistance: searching homes
3. Townshend Acts (1768) -glass -lead -paint -paper -TEA (3 penny tax) -Sons of Liberty NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!!!! 4. Boston Massacre -March 5, 1770 -Crispus Attucks + 4 others killed
-committees of correspondance -communication between colonists 5. Boston Tea Party (1773) -Sons of Liberty -18,000 pounds of tea -Coercive Acts INTOLERABLE ACTS (1774) a. closed Boston harbor b. New Quartering Act c. Martial Law d. English officials tried in England e. NO TOWN MEETINGS
6. Continental Congress -Philadelphia -56 delegates -minutemen created -colonial militia 7. Lexington and Concord -British are marching on Concord -Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott -THE BRITISH ARE COMING!!!! - “The Shot Heard Round the World”
Making a break 1. 2nd Continental Congress -Radicals: John Adams -independence -Continental Army -Conservatives: John Dickinson -”repair the relationship” -Olive Branch Petition -return to harmony -KING REJECTS IT
-Solution -Continental Army -George Washington -colonial money -committee on foreign relations • COMMON SENSE -Thomas Paine -independence is America’s destiny -a society free from tyranny
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE -Thomas Jefferson -influenced by Enlightenment -John Locke: Natural Rights -Montesquieu: separation of power -Rousseau: Social Contract -JULY 4, 1776 -INDEPENDENCE!!!!