The Road to Revolution Introduction 1 2 Seven Years War French Indian War 1756 1763 A Treaty of Paris British is going to gain a huge amount of land almost the half of the United State B Costs Would be between 72 30 million pounds The British gov t need to pay the people that they owe This would be a huge challenge and huge costs to keep the peace 3 Off Setting the Costs of Empire A Proclamation Line of 1763 Battles are happening along the Frontier King George is going to issues the proclamation that no settlement to past the mountains In order to lower the cost and keep the peace No more settlement that pass the line The Big problem that has angry the colonies are now pissing them off B Sugar Act 1764 Meant to strictly enforce taxes on sugar and molasses and other goods Sugar to New England Rum and Goods to Africa Slaves to the Americas C Quartering Act 1765 D Stamp Act 1766 Colonies must pay for supplies and housing of British Soldiers If no proper housing is available barracks soldiers were to be accommodated in public or private structures Parliament required all legal documents newspapers and pamphlets to use a watermarked stamped paper that was taxed People had a problem with it because this tax was levied without permission 4 Colonial Resistance Son of Liberty A Formed in the early 17th century Made up of Artsmen Craftsmen and Tradesmen The Mob was in Boston By the end of the year of the Son of Liberty they were in almost every colony They didn t want people to distribute the stamps and if caught delivering the stamps then the business wouldn t survive Direct result of Stamp Act Join or Die important work through newspapers Boston was an occupied city and was going to sympathized with the British B Occupied Boston 1768 C Boston Massacre 1770 Soldiers were firing at unarmed civilians This happened just because one soldier had accidently fired his gun If one gun is fired then the rest will follow Symptom of everything that is going down D Boston Tea Party December 1773 Boarded the ship and destroys almost 2 million worth of the now destroyed tea which is really pissing people off 1 East India Company Parliament and the British were trying to make money off your expense Tea might represent the British Empire It was not the British gov t that was ruling India but it was England who was ruling them If you had tea from India it will 1st go to England because of the trade amounts Another thing that the Americas would show would be resentment 2 Intolerable Act Reform Colonial Government Strip Massachusetts of Self govern and independence A violation of Natural Rights This causes people to boycott British goods Calls for 1st Continental Congress address what was going on about intolerable acts and hopefully mend this relationship Colonies were on the road to revolution British attempts to re coop cost of war alienated colonists Colonists demanded representation if they were going to be taxed Conflicted resulted in the Boston Massacre Boston Tea Party 1st Continental Congress and put the colonies on the Road to Revolution 5 Conclusion Key Terms Taxation without Representation Mercantilism 1st Continental Congress Tea George III 1 Introduction Federalism and Anti Federalism Ratification of Constitution took place amongst a heated public opinion campaign that was waged in newspapers and the broader public sphere States had to individually ratify or reject Federalists supported the adoption Anti Federalists opposed the adoption 2 Federalism A Universal Centuries Old Concept B New American Meaning Based on the idea of coalition confederation of sovereign states Members kept almost all of their powers and rights and gave central gov t very limited power Based on divided sovereignty members pass considerable amount of power and rights to central gov t They retained substantial rights and power 3 The Federalist A Who Are They Hamilton Madison And many of our founding fathers 1 Debt and Trade Commerce B Federalist Papers focused on Need for a stronger union Insufficiency of the Articles How the Constitution would preserve republican government How the Constitution would protect liberty and prosperity 1 Publius written in support of the Constitution 85 Articles that were published between October 1787 and August 1788 Authored by Madison Hamilton and Jay under the name Publius Named for Roman Pro Consul who expelled the last king and established Roman Republic Appeared in the New York Papers because New York was Anti Federalist stronghold 4 Anti Federalist A Who Are They Mason Winthrop Difficult to generalize but there were 3 main groups o Elite not commercially oriented embraced ideas about civic virtue feared corruption and tyranny that a strong gov t might being and wealthy would be able to join office o Middling tradesmen and merchants who are more commercially oriented but feared that a strong central gov t might limit their upward mobility o Radical Democrats who believed that the Constitution was Anti Democratic Many are small farmers struggling townsfolk and people on the frontier B Anti Federalist Papers Robert Yates and Marcus Junius Brutus 1 Brutus Yates published essays responding to the Federalist Papers Yates Criticisms o Feared immense owner of central government When the people once part with power they can seldom never resume it again but by force Constitution HAD TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY A BILL OF RIGHT Standing army in peacetime is evil Congress power to collect revenue was dangerous Territory was too large for a Republican Questioned the 3 5th compromise 5 Ratification A Bill of Rights KNOW IT o Amendment 1 Freedom of religion press speech o Amendment 2 Right to bear arms o Amendment 3 Limits the quartering of soldiers o Amendment 4 Search and seizure of property o Amendment 5 Right to a trial if accused no self incrimination required no double jeopardy you cannot be tried twice for the same crime right to compensation for takings by government o Amendment 6 Right to a speedy trial by jury and confrontation of witnesses o Amendment 7 Right to a trial by jury in civil cases o Amendment 8 Prohibits cruel and unusual punishment o Amendment 9 People may have other rights even if they are not listed o Amendment 10 The federal government s powers are limited to those here listed in the Constitution Adopted in 1791 Addressed Criticisms of Anti Federalists Safeguarded Liberties from oppressive power of government Drew on Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776 Drew on English Bill of
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