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How do you react if you feel like you are being treated unfairly?. Write your best response to the question in your notes. The French and Indian War 1754–1763. Parliamentary Acts. Economic Strain on the Colonies. Timeline . 1651 – The Navigation Act of 1651
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How do you react if you feel like you are being treated unfairly? Write your best response to the question in your notes
Parliamentary Acts Economic Strain on the Colonies
Timeline • 1651 – The Navigation Act of 1651 • 1763 – Great Britain issues the Proclamation Act of 1763 • 1764 – Parliament passes the Sugar Act to raise revenue in the colonies • 1764 – The Currency Act forbade further issues of paper money in the colonies • 1765 – The Stamp Act places new taxes on American colonists • 1766 – Parliament repeals the Stamp Act, but then passed the Declaratory Act • 1767 – The Townshend Revenue Acts are passed
Timeline – cont. • 1767 – The Townshend Revenue Acts are passed • 1770 – Five colonists are killed by British troops in the Boston Massacre • 1773 – The Tea Act is passed by Parliament • 1773 – Sons of Liberty destroy British tea at the Boston Tea Party • 1773 – The Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) are passed to punish protestors in Boston • 1774 – The First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia
The Boston Tea Party How do the colonists react?
James Madison • Father of the U.S. Constitution • Author of the Bill of Rights
The American Experiment • "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." --George Washington’s Inaugural Speech
George Washington • The President of Precedence
Jefferson’s Conundrum • Strict interpretation vs. needs & opportunity • The Louisiana Purchase
The Monroe Doctrine • “In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part….We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.”