Unit 3: Path to Independence & Republicanism, 1763-1789

Chapter 5: The Problem of Empire, 1763-1776

Unit 3: Path to Independence & Republicanism, 1763-1789

An Empire Transformed

I.The Costs of Empire

  1. Pontiac’s Rebellion
  2. Proclamation of 1763

II.George Grenville and the Reform Impulse

  1. George Grenville
  1. The Sugar Act (1764)
  2. The End of Salutary Neglect
  3. vice-admiralty courts

III.An Open Challenge: The Stamp Act

  1. Stamp Act of 1765
  2. virtual representation
  3. Quartering Act of 1765

The Dynamics of Rebellion, 1765-1770

I.Formal Protests and the Politics of the Crowd

  1. The Stamp Act Congress
  2. Stamp Act Congress
  3. Crowd Actions
  4. Sons of Liberty
  5. The Motives of the Crowd

II.The Ideological Roots of Resistance

  1. natural rights
  2. John Dickinson’s Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

III.Another Kind of Freedom

IV.Parliament and Patriots Square off Again

  1. Declaratory Act of 1766
  1. Charles Townshend Steps In
  2. Charles Townshend
  3. Townshend Act of 1767
  4. A 2ndBoycott the Daughters of Liberty
  5. nonimportation movement
  6. Troops to Boston

V.The Problem of the West

VI.Parliament Waivers

  1. Lord North
  1. The Boston Massacre
  2. Sovereignty Debated
  3. Samuel Adams

The Road to Independence, 1771-1776

I.A Compromise Repudiated

  1. committees of correspondence
  1. The East India Company and the Tea Act
  2. Tea Act of May 1773
  3. The Tea Party and the Coercive Acts
  4. Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

II.The Continental Congress Responds

  1. Continental Congress

III.The Rising of the Countryside

  1. The Continental Association
  2. Southern Planters Fear Dependency

IV.Loyalists and Neutrals

Violence East and West

I.Lord Dunmore’s War

  1. Lord Dunmore
  2. Dunmore’s War

II.Armed Resistance in Massachusetts

  1. Minutemen

III.The Second Continental Congress Organizes for War

  1. Second Continental Congress
  1. Congress Versus King George
  2. Fighting in the South
  3. Occupying Kentucky

IV.Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

  1. Thomas Paine
  2. Thomas Jefferson
  1. Independence Declared
  2. Declaration of Independence
  3. popular sovereignty

Unit 3: Path to Independence & Republicanism, 1763-1789

Crash Course # 6 Taxes and Smuggling

Chapter 6: Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Unit 3: Path to Independence & Republicanism, 1763-1789

The Trials of War, 1776-1778

I.War in the North

  1. General George Washington
  2. General William Howe
  3. Battle of Long Island (1776)

II.Armies and Strategies

III.Victory at Saratoga

  1. General Horatio Gates
  2. Battle of Saratoga (1777)
  3. Iroquois Confederation

IV.The Perils of War

V.Financial Crisis

  1. Robert Morris

VI.Valley Forge

  1. Valley Forge
  2. Baron von Steuben

The Path to Victory, 1778-1783

I.The French Alliance

II.War in the South

  1. Britain’s Southern Strategy
  2. Philipsburg Proclamation
  3. Guerilla Warfare in the Carolinas
  4. Battle of Yorktown (1781)

III.The Patriot Advantage

  1. currency tax

IV.Diplomatic Triumph

  1. Treaty of Paris of 1783

Creating Republican Institutions, 1776-1787

I.The State Constitutions: How Much Democracy?

  1. Pennsylvania’s Controversial Constitution
  2. Pennsylvania constitution of 1776
  3. Tempering Democracy
  4. mixed government

II.Women Seek a Public Voice

  1. Judith Sargent Murray

III.The War’s Losers: Loyalists, Native Americans, and Slaves

IV.The Articles of Confederation

  1. Articles of Confederation
  1. Continuing Fiscal Crisis
  2. The Northwest Ordinances
  3. Northwest Ordinance of 1787

V.Shays’s Rebellion

The Constitution of 1787

I.The Rise of a Nationalist Faction

II.The Philadelphia Convention

  1. The Virginia and New Jersey Plans
  2. Virginia Plan
  3. James Madison
  4. New Jersey Plan
  5. The Great Compromise
  6. Negotiations over Slavery
  7. National Authority

III.The People Debate Ratification

  1. Federalists
  1. The Antifederalists
  2. Antifederalists
  3. Federalists Respond
  4. Federalist No. 10
  5. The Constitution Ratified

Unit 3: Path to Independence & Republicanism, 1763-1789

Crash Course #7 Who Won the American Revolution

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