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Forces for Change

Forces for Change. American and French Revolutions. Leading to Revolution. America growing in its own identify Intellectual (science and philosophy, Economic Wealth: cotton, tobacco, rise of middle class) Political: most part self rule

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Forces for Change

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  1. Forces for Change American and French Revolutions

  2. Leading to Revolution • America growing in its own identify • Intellectual (science and philosophy, Economic Wealth: cotton, tobacco, rise of middle class) Political: most part self rule • Influence of the ideas of the enlightenmentJohn Locke Natural Law and Natural Rights • Second paragraph of DOI See enlightenment hound out. • The Trigger :Stamp Act 1776to pay for French Indian War

  3. Leading to Revolution American Reaction (taxation without rep.) Enjoyed never being taxed directly (Spoiled) Enlightenment ideas spread, Sons of LibertyThomas Payne Common Sense… Independence becomes ingrained in based on Natural Laws principles.

  4. Stamp Act Reactions

  5. King George 3rd repeals the Stamp Act

  6. Declaratory Act: King and Parliament can declare anything they want regarding the American colonists • This begins the down road spiral leading to Revolution • Townsend Acts (more taxes) • Boston Massacre not a massacre propaganda used by Paul Revere and others to stir up anti British sentiment

  7. Tea ACTLeadsto Boston Tea Party Result (Effect) The Intolerable Acts, Closing the Port of Boston , quartering of Soldiers Suspending state legislators etc. • Cause • Reaction from the Tea Act which required Colonists to get tea from the East India Co. exclusively Symbolic for breaking cultural ties with England (tea) ( a new identity forming) and moral symbolism of the “noble savage” the Mohawk Indian. Why did this lead to the intolerable Acts?

  8. 1775 Lexington/Concord British Soldiers move to find stolen cannons. Fighting breaks out. “Shot Heard Round the World.”

  9. Jefferson and the DOI • Thomas Jefferson: Drafter of the Declaration of Independence, Secretary of State, 3rd President, Founder of the University of Virginia, Author of the Virginal Declaration of Religious Rights, Inventor, Planter, Slave owner

  10. War 1776 -1783 • American used Indian Gorilla techniques • Supported financially and with military help from France • American Torres and King loyalist largely unharmed • Many move (Migrate) to Canada, back to England and Bermuda other British colonies • After War • Articles of Confederation created at start of Revolution first National Government created purposely weak, Shay’s Rebellion show need for stronger central government, based on Locke, Roam • 1787 – 1989 Constitutional Convention, Federalist Papers, ratification, Washington sworn in • 1791 Bill of Rights amended to Constitution • 1791 French Rev. Begins

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