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Who is to benefit in a mercantilist system?
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What are raw materials and finished products (goods)?
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Imports / Exports
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Mercantilism = Colonialism
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Top European Colonial Powers:
P______________, S____________, E____________
F_______________, D____________
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New England= Public
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Middle= Private
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Southern= Tutors
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Apprenticeship and Dame Schools
Impact:
Increase in
slave trade
(slaves treated
as chattel =
property)
Further
destabilization
of Africa.
Increased
colonial
dependency on
England which
led to hostility.
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Who:
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French and Algonquin allies
vs.
British and English colonies/ Eventually Iroquois
Confederacy
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When: 1754-63 (fighting ends in 1760; war is not officially over
until the Treaty of Paris is signed in 1763.
Why was it fought: English settlers keep pushing westward and
France wants to maintain their colonial gains especially in the
Ohio Valley.
Where: The Ohio Valley (North America)
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Albany Plan For Union:
Purposed by Ben Franklin in 1754, modeled
after the League of Iroquois, remember
Canassastego’s advice?
One general government with representatives
from the 13 colonies to serve in the “Grand
Council”
The council would make laws, raise taxes, and
set up the defense of the colonies.
Not 1 colony agreed to the plan, no one wanted
to give up power to a central government.
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1757, William Pitt becomes Prime Minister of
England.
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Sends best generals to North America.
Encourages colonists to fight in the war (monetary
incentives $$)
General Amherst captures Louisbourg, which
convinced the Iroquois to side with the British.
Iroquois convince the Delaware to abandon Fort
Duquesne, British gain control of the POINT.
1763 – Ended the war!
Who got what?
Britain – Canada, all
French lands east of
the Mississippi River
& Florida
France – West Indies
Spain – all French land
west of the
Mississippi River
including New
Orleans.
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Britain gains a lot of territory.
Britain will be able to expand trade (now controlling the St.
Lawrence, Ohio, and most of the Mississippi Rivers).
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French threat in N. America is ended.
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Native American relationships are strained even further.
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Britain racked up a tremendous amount of debt.
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Colonists are expected to help pay off the debt.
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France will begin to spiral towards financial disaster, but not
noticeable for another generation.
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How did Pontiac’s war lead to the signing of
the Proclamation?
What did the Proclamation say?
How did the colonists react to the
Proclamation, why?
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Sugar Act ‘64
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Stamp Act ‘65
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Colonial reaction? Why?
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Violence/Protests/Stamp Act Congress
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Petition/ Boycott
“No Taxation, Without Representation
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Writs of Assistance?
What was it?
Quartering Act ’67, what was it?
Colonial Reaction: Non-importation
Agreement
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Details?
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Response (committee of correspondence)
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Why?
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Colonial Reaction
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Boston Tea Party
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Britain’s Reaction
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Intolerable Acts ‘74
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2
3
4
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First Continental Congress
1.
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Boston Tea Party
The Tea Act
The Proclamation of 1763
The Treaty of Paris
The Stamp Act
The Nonimportation agreements
The Sugar Act
The Stamp Act Congress
Pontiac’s War
The Creation of the Committee of Correspondence
The Boston Massacre
The Albany Plan of Union
The Townshend Acts/Writs of Assistance
The Albany Plan of Union
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Pontiac’s War
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The Treaty of Paris
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The Proclamation of 1763
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The Sugar Act
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The Stamp Act
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The Stamp Act Congress
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The Townshend Acts/Writs of Assistance
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The Nonimportation agreements
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The Boston Massacre
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The Creation of the Committee of Correspondence
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The Tea Act
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Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts
First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress