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=== French Indian War === | |||
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* 1754-1763 | |||
* the immediate cause of the war was the growing presence of English colonials across the Appalachian Mountains and into the Ohio Valley | |||
** the French and their indian allies opposed these settlements | |||
** a site of considerable contention was Fort Duquesne at present-day Pittsburg, as the location was at the confluuence of two major rivers leading into the Ohio River | |||
* sparked by an unsuccessful British and colonial attacks on French forts in Pennsylvania | |||
* in 1753, George Washington 1753 delivered a message to the French at another Fort in Pennsylvania demanding French evacuation from the region | |||
* on July 3, 1754, as a colonel in the Virginia Militia, Washington led an attack upon the French Ford Necessity; he lost and had to surrender | |||
* British regular Army, along with colonial militias (and including Washington), reorganized and attacked another French fort, Fort Duquesne on Sept. 14, 1758, and also lost | |||
** there were 500 French and Indian soldiers | |||
** and 400 British regulars and 350 colonial militia | |||
* the British eventually took Ft. Dusquesne in 1758 (renaming it Ft. Pitt), and the focus of the war moved toward Canada and the St. Lawrence River waterways, particularly the French city Quebec. | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Albany Conference, 1754|or Albany Congress; at the start of the French-Indian War, a gathering of representatives of seven, northeastern colonial legislatures in Albany , New York, with the purpose to manage relations with Indian tribes and create collective defense against the French; Albany was at the time an important city but "western" in that it was not coastal; although called for by Great Britain with the specific goal of mending relations with the Iroquois Confederacy in order to fend against the French and their indian allies, the Conference was the first convention of colonial legislatures; the Congress adopted Benjamin Franklin's "Albany Plan", but it was rejected by the British and colonial governments}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Albany Plan|proposed by Benjamin Franklin at the 1854 Albany Congress to create a central colonial government that would have powers of treaty-making, taxation, and self-defense; the Albany Plan is considered a precursor to the Articles of Confederation}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Fort Duquesne|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Treaty of Paris of 1783|}}</ul></li> | |||
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<ul><li>{{#tip-text:ABC Boards|American Board of Customss, "commissioners" created by the Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 and appointed by the powerful London Board of Trade, who enforced customs and other tax collections; notoriously corrupt, customs officials were targets of American ire and at times violence; the British government struggled to control colonial trade, especially stopping smugglng, which is simply trade of goods wihout paying duties; whenever trade rules were enforced, it outraged colonists; from the British point of view, the taxes were for the benefit of the colonists, as they funded colonial operations}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:ABC Boards|American Board of Customss, "commissioners" created by the Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 and appointed by the powerful London Board of Trade, who enforced customs and other tax collections; notoriously corrupt, customs officials were targets of American ire and at times violence; the British government struggled to control colonial trade, especially stopping smugglng, which is simply trade of goods wihout paying duties; whenever trade rules were enforced, it outraged colonists; from the British point of view, the taxes were for the benefit of the colonists, as they funded colonial operations}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Admiralty Court|Naval judicial courts that acted independently of colonial authority; Admiralty or Vice Admiralty courts were used to enforce taxes, and were hated by the colonists who felt that they were unust and did not allow for "judgment of peers", which is the basis of the jury system}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Admiralty Court|Naval judicial courts that acted independently of colonial authority; Admiralty or Vice Admiralty courts were used to enforce taxes, and were hated by the colonists who felt that they were unust and did not allow for "judgment of peers", which is the basis of the jury system}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Boston Massacre|}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Boston Tea Party|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Circulatory Letter|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Committees of Correspondence|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Common Sense|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Declaration of Independence|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Enlightenment philosophers|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:First Continental Congress|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:''Gaspee'' affair|1772, colonials burned the British ''HMS Gaspee'', which was enforcing Navigation Acts off of Rhode Island; the ''Gaspee'' had been aggressively boarding and inspecting colonial vessels and seizing cargo, and while chasing a colonial boat got stuck aground; a group of colonials took advantage of the boat's helplessness and attacked}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:''Gaspee'' affair|1772, colonials burned the British ''HMS Gaspee'', which was enforcing Navigation Acts off of Rhode Island; the ''Gaspee'' had been aggressively boarding and inspecting colonial vessels and seizing cargo, and while chasing a colonial boat got stuck aground; a group of colonials took advantage of the boat's helplessness and attacked}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:John Locke|}}</ul></li> | |||
Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer|by John Dickinson}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Lexington/Concord|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Loyalist|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Montesquieu|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:natural rights|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Patriot|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Revolutionary flags|flags symbolically represent a place or people; the |}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Battle of Saratoga|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:social contract theory|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sons of Liberty|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act Congress|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Thomas Paine|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Valley Forge|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Yorktown|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Continental Congresses|}}</ul></li> | |||
Writs of Assistance|}}</ul></li> | |||
=== British Laws & Regulations === | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Coercive Acts|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Intolerable Acts|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Navigation Acts|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Olive Branch Petition|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Proclamation of 1763 | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Quartering Act|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Stamp Act|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sugar Act|}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Townsend Acts|}}</ul></li> | |||
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