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Seven Years’ War
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North American battles
of the Seven Years’ War
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European and Indian Portions of theSeven Years’ War
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The American RevolutionSpecial Thanks to Anne Stewart
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Revolutionary War Timeline
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The Hanoverians
• The United Kingdom of Great Britain came into being in 1707, when the governments of England and Scotland united
• The term British came to refer to the English and the Scots
• A new dynasty, the Hanoverians, took power in 1714
• The early Hanoverian kings depended so much on their prime ministers because they were not familiar with the customs and language of Britain since they came from the German state of Hanover
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The Nature of Colonies
• Colonies existed to make the mother country rich
• The middle class wanted Britain’s trade and empire expanded
• One place for expansion was North America, where Britain controlled Canada and 13 colonies on the eastern coast of the present United States
• Merchants in the colonial ports of Boston, Philadelphia, New York, and Charleston did not want the British government to run their affairs
• Colonies had their own legislatures and often acted independently
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Effects of Seven Years’ War
• After the Seven Years’ War, Britain needed more revenue from the colonies
• In 1765 Parliament imposed the Stamp Act
• Printed material such as legal documents and newspapers (even playing cards) had to carry a stamp showing that a tax had been paid to Britain
• “No taxation without representation”
• After strong opposition, the act was repealed in 1766
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The Boston Massacre
• The Boston Massacre was a conflict between the British soldiers and colonists that occurred on March 5, 1770
• A group of soldiers opened fire on an unfriendly crowd of colonists when they started throwing things at the soldiers
• This resulted in the death of five Americans
• PROPAGANDA!
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The Shot Heard Around the World
• The American colonies and Great Britain had numerous crises throughout the 1770s
• The First Continental Congress convened in 1774• Fighting between Britain and the colonists erupted at
Lexington and Concord in 1775
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Declaration of Independence• Signed in 1776 • Written by Jefferson (mostly)• Formally declared the colonies’
intent to be independent
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The War
• The help of foreign countries was essential to the colonies’ cause
• France supplied arms and men and formally recognized the American state in 1777
• It supplied troops and arms, and the Spanish and Dutch joined in against Great Britain
• The volunteer American forces finally beat the well-trained professional British army after defeating Cornwallis at Yorktown (1781)
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The Treaty of Paris 1783
• Recognized the independence of the American colonies and gave the Americans control of the western territory from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River
Benjamin West, The Treaty of Paris (1783)-unfinished painting — from left to right: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin. The British commissioners refused to pose, and the picture was never finished.
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Treaty of Paris
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The Birth of a New Nation
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The New States
• The 13 former colonies were now states, having created a new social contract
• They had little interest in forming a country with a strong central government
• Each states kept to its own affairs, as the weak Articles of Confederation showed (weak central government)
• Soon it was clear the government under the Articles lacked the power to deal with the new nation’s problems
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Federal System
• In 1787 delegates met in Philadelphia to revise the Articles
• That meeting became the Constitutional Convention
• The delegates wrote a plan for a new national government
• The proposed Constitution created a federal system = Power shared between the national and state governments
• The national (federal) government had the power to levy taxes, raise an army, regulate trade, and create a national currency
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Branches of Federal Government
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Executive Branch
• The federal government was divided into three branches in a system of checks and balances
• The president (executive) had the power to execute laws, veto the legislature’s acts, supervise foreign affairs, and direct military forces
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Legislative Branch
• The second branch (the legislative) consisted of the Senate, elected by the state legislatures, and the House of Representatives, elected directly by the people
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Judicial Branch
• The Supreme Court and other courts made up the third branch (judicial)
• The courts were to enforce the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land”
Old Chamber in the Capitol
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Bill of Rights
• These 10 amendments guaranteed freedom of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly
• They gave Americans the right to bear arms and to be protected from unreasonable searches and arrests
• They guaranteed a trial by jury, due process of law, and the protection of property rights
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Declaration of Independence
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Constitution
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Bill of Rights