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The War for Independence
Chapter 4
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Events that lead to the War
The French and Indian War (1754) created debt for the English.
The British wanted colonists to pay their share.
So they began to enforce taxes that they had never enforced before. (Salutary Neglect)
The colonists won’t be taxed unless represented in parliament.
The British sent troops.
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Proclamation of 1763Prevented the colonists
from getting lands in the west, won from the French.
The British wanted no problems with the natives.
The British sent troops to enforce it.
The colonists ignored it.
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Events that led to organization and resistance…
The Stamp Act
The Townsend Acts
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
Lexington and Concord
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Ideas Behind the Revolution
The Olive Branch Petition- Members of the Second Continental Congress urged the King to restore harmony between England and the Colonies.
The king rejected it and sent a naval blockade.
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Common Sense by Thomas Paine
A pamphlet arguing for American independence.
Convinced many Americans to support creating their own republic.
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The Declaration of IndependenceWritten by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia.
Borrowed ideas from John Locke.
“life, liberty and property” became…“life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”
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Key Ideas in the D. of I.
Governments get their power from consent of the governed.
People may abolish governments that threaten their “inalienable rights”.
All men are created equal.
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American’s choose sides
Patriots
Loyalists
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Chapter 4 Section 3
The Battles
Saratoga- Importance?
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Winning the War
Friedrich von Steuben
Marquis de Lafayette
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Fighting the War
The battles moved to the South.(The movie “The Patriot”)
The Americans win at Yorktown.Washington’s sword.
The Treaty of Paris ends the War but…
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Egalitarianism
A belief in the equality of all people.