Colonial America and the American President
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| The Seven Years War | 1756 - 1763. aka French and Indian War. Britain and France fought for control of North America. With American colonists help the British won.
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| Proclamation of 1763 | The attempt to refrain Americans from moving onto Indian Lands west of the Appalachian mountains. UNSUCCESSFUL
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| Sugar Act | Revenue Act of 1764. Imposed new import duties on sugar, coffee, wines and other imports. 1st bill George Grenville steered through parliament.
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| Stamp Act | Revenue Act of 1765. Required printed documents (newspapers, legal contracts, marriage licenses...) to bear revenue stamps purchased from royal stamp distributors. 2nd bill George Grenville steered through parliament.
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| Townsend Duties | Revenue Act of 1767. Import duties on imports of paper, glass, paint and tea.
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| Declaratory Acts | March 1766. Britain has the right to make laws over American colonies with or without representation.
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| Coercive Acts | 1774. Intolerable Acts. 4 pieces of legislation passed by British Parliament intended to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
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| Tea Act | 1773. Designed to save the East India Tea Company NOT to raise revenue. Allowed the company to ship directly to America without middlemen. It was flawed due to Townsend Act and tea smugglers and powerful mercantile groups in Boston.
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| Quebec Act | 1774. Granted French-speaking Roman Catholics religious and political rights and a large voice in local affairs.
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| The Sons of Liberty | A Boston mob resisting the Stamp Act that burned the local stamp distributor in protest.
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| Boston Massacre | March 5, 1770. Between British troops and Boston mob. 5 citizens died when the British shot into the crowd.
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| Intolerable Acts | 1774. Coercive Acts. 4 pieces of legislation passed by British Parliament intended to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
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| Navigation Acts | 1660,63,73,96. A series of commercial restrictions passed by Parliament intended to regulate colonial commerce and make England wealthy.
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| "The shot heard round the world" | April 19, 1775. Beginning with Paul Revere's ride the night before, this shot by a colonist marked the beginning of the American Revolution.
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| Battle of Lexington | Revolutionary War. April 19, 1775. The first of the battles opening war between the 13 colonies and British.
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| Battle of Concord | Revolutionary War. April 19, 1775. The second of the battles opening war between the 13 colonies and British.
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| Battle of Valley Forge | June 19, 1778. Turning point of Revolutionary War. No actual battle was fought here.
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| Battle of Yorktown | October 19, 1781. Cornwallis surrenders to Washington.
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| First Continental Congress | Philadelphia 1774. Delegates from 12 colonies met (13th agreed without meeting). Toward the colonies they - denied Parliament's authority to legislate, condemned British actions, created the continental association, and endorsed call to take arms.
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| Second Continental Congress | Philadelphia May 1775. Organized Continental Army and commissioned George Washington to lead it.
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| Articles of Confederation | November 1777. Ratified in 1781. United States first constitution. Limited central authority by denying the national government any taxation or coercive powers.
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| Declaration of Independence | July 2, 1776. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson. Listed specific grievances against George III and his government but also principles of rights and the governments duty to protect these rights.
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| Treaty of Paris | September 3, 1783. Ratified 1784. Formally ended the Revolutionary War.
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| Aaron Burr | Military. Graduated Princeton studying Theology. Successful attorney sharing practice with Alexander Hamilton. Attorney General NY 1789. Senator 1791. Shot Hamilton in a dual - acquitted. Married twice.
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| Paul Revere | Silversmith and patriot in the American Revolution. Rode his horse to warn Americans of the British for the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
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| General Lafayette | Fought alongside Washington in the Revolutionary War. Led French troops and made an honorary US Citizen.
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| John Locke | English philosopher. Devised Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina with Anthony Cooper.
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| James Madison | President from 1809-1817. Virginian. Declared war of 1812. Approved Treat of Ghent. "Father of the Constitution".
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| James Monroe | 5th President 1817-1821. Democrat-Republican Party. Missouri Compromise. Monroe Doctrine. Louisiana Purchase. Era of Good Feelings.
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| Benjamin Franklin | Albany Plan - rejected. Antislavery societies. Helped negotiate the Treaty of Paris in 1783. Attended the Philadelphia Convention in 1787.
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| George Washington | 1st President 1789-1797. Federalist Party. Military General. Led the Continental Army in the American Revolution.
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| John Adams | 2nd President 1797-1801. Federalist Party. Harvard. Lawyer. Attended 1st Continental Congress & Philadelphia Convention. Helped negotiate Treaty of Paris in 1783. Alien and Sedition Acts.
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| Samuel Adams | Revolutionary. Formed Committee of Correspondence. Attended 1st Continental Congress.
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| Committee of Correspondence | Vast communication network in Massachusetts and other colonies to communicate grievances and present evidence of British oppression.
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| Ethan Allen | Farmer turned Statesman from Connecticut. Commander of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Vermont. Onion River Land Company.
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| George Washington's Legacies | Determined the role of the Presidency. Set Term Limits.
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| Thomas Jefferson's Legacies | Louisiana Purchase.
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| Andrew Jackson's Legacies | Trail of Tears
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| Abraham Lincoln's Legacies | Emancipation Proclamation. Civil War.
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| Theodore Roosevelt's Legacies | Spanish American War. Cuba. Panama Canal. "Big Stick" Diplomacy.
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| Woodrow Wilson's Legacies | Fourteen Points. Moral Diplomacy. First World War. League of Nations.
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| Franklin D Roosevelt's Legacies | New Deal. Second World War.
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| Harry S. Truman's Legacies | First use of atomic bomb. Desegregating the military.
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| Dwight D. Eisenhower's Legacies | Alaska & Hawaii admitted to statehood. Military industrial complex. Cold War.
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| John F. Kennedy's Legacies | Cuban Missile Crisis. Cold War. NASA. Civil Rights Movement. Vietnam
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| Lyndon B. Johnson's Legacies | The Great Society. Vietnam.
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| Richard Nixon's Legacies | Watergate. Henry Kissinger. China.
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| Ronald Reagan's Legacies | Reagonomics.
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