section 1: colonial resistance and rebellion. four wars with france in 100 years=massive debt. ...
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Chapter 2
Section 1: Colonial Resistance and Rebellion
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Four wars with France in 100 years=MASSIVE DEBT.
What to do about this debt? How do countries raise money?
Taxes Who should they tax? The Colonists
Britain’s Financial Position
Lowered taxes on imported sugar Put new taxes on goods that hadn’t been
taxed before Smugglers are no longer tried by peers, but
those strictly loyal to the crown
Sugar Act
Tax on documents and printed items
Paper would be stamped when tax was paid
First direct tax that effects ALL colonists
Before tax starts Sons of Liberty boycott British goods “No taxation without representation”
Stamp Act
Britain’s Reaction
Declaratory Act Townshend Acts
Parliament had the right to bind the colonists and people of America in all cases whatsoever.
New tax on lead, glass, paint, paper and TEA!
Most popular drink in the colonies.
March 5, 1770 Mob gathers and starts name calling
soldiers and throwing things at them Soldiers fire without orders and 5 colonists
die as a result. Paul Revere and other Patriots call it a
“massacre” and propagandize the event
Boston Massacre
Paul Revere’s Depiction of the Boston Massacre (silversmith)
Tea Act to save the British East India Company
They can sell their tea directly from India to colonists without paying taxes
Where does this leave colonial merchants? Sons of Liberty gather to come up with a
solution At first colonists refuse to unload the tea, but
as the deadline approaches (20 days) they must come up with a more dramatic solution.
Boston Tea Party
Meet at Old South Meeting House to discuss solution
“This meeting can do nothing further to save the country” –Adams
Signal for Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians to kindly dump 18,000 lbs of tea into Boston harbor.
Boston Tea Party Continued
Shut down Boston Harbor House soldiers in vacant colonial homes Boston under Martial Law Colonists react with First Continental
Congress to declare colonial rights and threaten British with retaliation if they used force against the colonists.
Intolerable Acts
British general orders soldiers to march from Boston to Concord to seize weapons
Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride and the true story
The real story of Paul Revere
Paul Revere’s Ride
Paul Revere
More Paul Revere
700 British troops marching from Boston to Concord meet 70 minutemen at Lexington (5 miles from Concord)
Minutemen were told to lay down their weapons and leave, they left with their weapons and someone fired first so British shot the retreating men.
8 minutemen killed, ten injured
1 British soldier killed Lasted 15 minutes and the
British continue to march to Concord.
Had a skirmish with the minutemen
Found an empty arsenal and started marching back to Boston which becomes a slaughter
Minutemen surround Boston
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord
Monuments for Lexington and Concord
More Monuments
Second Continental Congress called to decide what to do next.
Independence or Reconciliation? Either way they need and army so militia
now becomes Continental Army and George Washington is appointed the commander
Always dress for the job you want
Pause for a Meeting
Didn’t take place on Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
British march on chilling minutemen because they are sick of waiting for action
2400 British march on colonial troops who hold fire until the last second and now down the British troops.
Because colonists retreat and British take the hill it is a British victory, but they lose 1000 vs 450 colonial loses.
The Battle of Bunker Hill
Bunker Hill Monument
After Bunker Hill the Second Continental Congress was still hoping for peace.
Felt loyal to King George and angry at Gage’s men who started the fight
Sent Olive Branch petition asking the king for peace
King refuses and tells Parliament that the colonists are in rebellion=war
Olive Branch
Independence Hall
Second Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia (kinda capital)
Declare Independence from England using British philosopher’s ideas (John Locke) printed in Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
Thomas Jefferson drafts it, changes are made and then the document is approved and signed July 4, 1776
Independence Video
Declare Independence
Chapter 2 Section 2The War for Independence
Two Sides
Loyalists Patriots
Opposed Independence
Loyal to British King Joined because of pay,
or fear of losing, or belief that Britain was stronger and could better protect their rights than the Colonial Government could
Support Independence King George is a
tyrant Joined because they
could make more money and have more opportunities in business if America was no longer tied to Britain
British act quickly and take New York with a force of about 32,000 soldiers which included German mercenaries (soldiers who fight for any government that pays them)
Continental Army is driven across the Delaware river into Pennsylvania
On Christmas Eve Continental Army surrounds the drunk Germans for an easy victory in NJ (because of ending contracts)
British retaliate by capturing Philadelphia (they should win and war should be over)
Early Battles
British General Burgoyne was supposed to come from Canada to Albany and meet up with other troops so the could isolate the rebellion in New England (Boston to New York), other troops were in Philadelphia waiting for surrender and couldn’t meet Burgoyne so he had to surrender Colonial troops at Saratoga
This win convinces the French to openly join the colonists so they can watch the British humiliation
Saratoga
Where Washington’s troops spend the winter running low on supplies
Harsh condition cause 2000 soldiers to lose their lives
Valley Forge
Valley Forge
More Valley Forge
Ran out of gold and silver to pay the troops so they start printing paper money called Continentals
Supply and demand causes inflation, rare things are valuable and common things are not
Continental has less value so you need more of them to buy stuff
Continental Problems
French General who helped whip the Continental Army into an effective fighting force
Marquis de Lafayette
Capturing the “capital” didn’t work Isolating the rebellion didn’t work New plan is to start in the South where the
colonists are indifferent to the war and conquer one colony at a time as the British move north
Captures South Carolina moves north to capture North Carolina and then Virginia
Has the strategy to camp on a peninsula, fortify it, receive aid by sea. Ends up surrounded and has to surrender instead.
British Change Tactics
Official end of the Revolutionary War after the surrender of Cornwallis
Peace talks in Paris in 1782-83 Confirmed independence and set
boundaries of the new nation (Atlantic to Mississippi, Canada to Florida)
Treaty of Paris
Since the Americans won they became a symbol of egalitarianism (everyone’s equal)
Other nations all over the world begin rebelling against monarchies and oppressing governments too because they saw that like America they could win too.
Shot heard round the world
Chapter 2: Section 3Confederation and the Constitution
New plan of government set up by the Second Continental Congress
Gives the federal government the power to declare war, make peace, sign treaties, borrow money, set coin standards, establish a postal service.
Weaknesses: Can’t tax, each state gets 1 vote no matter how many people, 9/13 states must agree on important laws, must be unanimous for amendment, no executive or federal legislative branches, 13 separate states and no unity.
Articles of Confederation
Independence Hall where the Constitution was created
A bunch of angry farmers get together to protest rising taxes in their state.
The federal government has no power to help them in getting fair taxes, or to stop their rebellion when it turns violent.
This event shows that The Articles of Confederation gave too little power to the national government because they were so afraid it would turn into a monarchy.
Shay’s Rebellion
America gets a chance to peacefully come up with a better system of government, but everyone has different ideas.
Two main ideas are the Virginia Plan (calls for 2 house legislature based on population) and the New Jersey Plan (calls for 1 house legislature based on equal vote).
Great Compromise proposed which calls for two house legislature with one house based on population and other on equal vote.
Redo
If representation is based on population in one house who should be counted in the population (slaves?)
North says slaves should not be counted because the South has so many it would give them more power. South suddenly decides in this debate alone that slaves are people not property and therefore should be counted in the population even if they are not represented in government.
New problem
3/5 slave compromise
To make both the North and the South happy the Three-Fifths Compromise is proposed which says that 3/5 of the slave population of every state will count towards the number of representatives that state gets in the House.
Another Compromise
The new Constitution calls for 3 branches of government (executive, judicial, legislative) and a system of checks and balances to prevent any one branch from dominating the other two. (Like what happened in England)
Separation of Powers
In order to adopt the new Constitution as the law of the land and get rid of the Articles of Confederation 9 out of 13 states need to ratify the document or agree to it.
Ratification
Federalists want to ratify the Constitution because it is better than Articles of Confederation
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay publish The Federalist to convince others.
Anti-Federalists do not want to ratify the Constitution because it does not include a Bill of Rights.
Patrick Henry, George Mason and Richard Henry Lee publish Letters from a Federal Farmer to convince others.
To Ratify or Not to Ratify
Federalists agree to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution so the Anti-Federalists will agree to ratify it.
Bill of Rights guarantee individual rights like freedom of religion, speech, press, political activity, rights to the accused, and rights to limit the federal government’s power.
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Our founding fathers realized they could not predict the future so they built in a way to change the Constitution to meet the changing needs of society.
Ours is the oldest Constitution because we allow for change when needed which makes it a living document.
In 200 years, there have only been 27 amendements.
Living Constitution
Constitution
Establishes the Federal Court System Supreme Court at the top, federal circuit
courts, and district courts. State decisions can be appealed to Federal
Courts when constitutionality is questioned.
Judiciary Act of 1789
Heads of the departments (State, War, Treasury)
Secretary of State (Thomas Jefferson) Secretary of Treasury (Alexander Hamilton) Secretary of War (Henry Knox)
Cabinet
Federalist Strong Central Gov Only smart people
get a say Loose
interpretation (if it doesn’t say you can’t, you can)
Trade economy National Bank
Democratic-Republican
Strong State Gov Everyone gets a say Strict interpretation
(if it doesn’t say you can, you can’t)
Farming economy No National Bank
Hamilton vs Jefferson
Bunch of people get together and protested the new tax on whiskey (like in Shay’s Rebellion)
13,000 militiamen are sent by the federal government to put down the rebellion
Proves the government has power to handle problems
Whiskey Rebellion
Pinckney’s Treaty with Spain in 1795. Spain gives up East of Mississippi except Florida at the 31st parallel.
Jay’s Treaty with Great Britain in 1794. British agree to evacuate their posts in the Northwest Territory, but continue their fur trade in U.S.
Treaties
Washington’s second term is up and he refuses to run for another.
Several people run including the former vice president John Adams against one of his closest friends (Thomas Jefferson)
They are from different parties. John Adams wins, Jefferson is runner up so President and Vice are in opposite parties which makes for inefficient government.
New president
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
U.S. Representatives go to talk with French foreign minister (Talleyrand) about French angry with Jay’s Treaty seizing our ships.
Instead of sending Talleyrand to talk with them, 3 zeros come (XYZ) and ask for bribe to talk with Talleyrand.
Huge insult to America, which becomes anti-French.
XYZ Affair
Makes it harder and take longer to become a citizen.
Says people can be fined or imprisoned for speaking out against the government. (Clearly goes against our guaranteed rights to freedom of speech and political activity)
Alien and Sedition Acts
These two states are the only ones gutsy enough to tell the federal government that what they are doing is unconstitutional and they refuse to obey the unconstitutional law.
This new idea is called nullification, where states can disregard new laws if they feel they go against the constitution
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions