Colonial America in the 18th Century II: Empire and Enlightenment

The Enlightenment (Europe & the colonies, late 1600s to late 1700s)  natural laws  Deists

Structure of government:

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT ENGLISH GOVERNMENT

(King &) Parliament: Governor Prime Minister Council House of Lords Assembly House of Commons Colonial Assemblies

Mercantilism  Navigation Acts (several, passed 1651–96)  Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652–74)

Empire The French and Indian War (1754-63) [aka The Seven Years War (1756-63)]  Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida  impressment  Peace of Paris (1763)

Writs of Assistance (1760) in Massachusetts Sugar Act (1764)  tariff Stamp Act (1765)  internal tax vs external tax  virtual representation vs actual representation o James Otis Stamp Act Crisis  Sam Adams & the Sons of Liberty  Stamp Act Congress (1765)

HIST 17A Dr. Schaffer The Run-up to War Charles Townshend:  Quartering Act (1765) → New York Suspending Act (1767)  Townshend Duties [Revenue Acts] (1767); repealed 1770 (except the tax on tea) Daughters of Liberty & nonconsumption Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)  John Adams committees of correspondence (Samuel Adams)

Tea Act (1773) Boston Tea Party (Dec 16, 1773) Coercive Acts [Intolerable Acts] (1774)  General Thomas Gage, royal governor of Massachusetts

First Continental Congress (met in Philadelphia from September to October of 1774)

The Revolutionary War (1775-83) Begins  Battles of Lexington & Concord (April 1775); Paul Revere & William Dawes o minutemen vs Redcoats o guerilla warfare  Second Continental Congress (met from May 1775 until the end of the war) o Continental Army & George Washington . Battle of Breed’s & Bunker Hill (June 1775) o committee to write the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson (Virginia), John Adams (Mass), Benjamin Franklin (PA), Robert R. Livingston (NY), Roger Sherman (CT)

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