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Becoming American: The American Revolution. Jessica R. Stern, PhD California State University, Fullerton. SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK “NO MORE KINGS” http:// www.youtube.com/watch?v =p0LmYEjXNIg. Agostino Brunias , Market, Dominica, West Indies, 1770s. LAND AND AMERICAN IDENTITY.
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Becoming American: The American Revolution Jessica R. Stern, PhD California State University, Fullerton
SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK “NO MORE KINGS”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0LmYEjXNIg
LAND AND AMERICAN IDENTITY A View Of Savannah, Georgia, 1734
Navigation Acts • Primary mechanism by which the British made money off of the colonies. • 1650&1651: had to be transported in English ships with a predominantly English crew • 1660: “Enumerated” colonial goods (tobacco, sugar, cotton, indigo, other dyes) can only be sent to English ports. Import tax on every pound of colonial tobacco. • 1663: All goods sent to the colonies must pass through English ports
LEUTZE, Emanuel Gottlieb, 1851, Washington Crossing the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776
Proclamation of 1763 Boundary Line Between British and Native American Territory
Duties: Regulate Trade Taxes: Generate Revenue
Popular Protest • Sons of Liberty
"Address to the Ladies”The Boston Post-Boy & Advertiser16 November 1767 • http://shaysrebellion.stcc.edu/shaysapp/music.do?shortName=address