Notes

Imperial Reform1763-1765

I. Legacy of War

-major disputes

-Funding

-military appointments

-policy objectives

-Weak Royal Governors

-Strict enforcement of Navigation Acts-Revenue Act

-Peacetime Army

II. Mythmaking-American Revolution

-Imposed Church of England

-Prevented us from making finished goods

III. State of Colonies

-N.E.

-Upper South

-Quebec

-Middle(NY &Philly)

-Lower South

-West Indies

IV. Taxes

-Custom duties (External &indirect)

-Real estate-internal and direct (with consent)

-excise (sales tax)

V. Sugar Act

-Currency Act (1764)

-Grenville-Sugar Act (1764)

-John Hancock

IV. Stamp Act

-Admiralty Courts

-Ben Franklin

-Virtual representation

-Quartering Acts

V. Dynamics of Rebellion (1765-1766)

-Patriots

-Stamp Act Congress

-John Dickinson “Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania”

-Patrick Henry

-Dulany “Considerations”

-Samuel Adams “Sons of Liberty”

VI. Parliament Compromises

-Repeal of Stamp Act

-unconstitutional

-merchants complaining

-Drunk people & mobs

-Conflict and Compromise

-Declaratory Act of 1766

VII. Ideological Roots of Resistance

-pamphlets

-English common law

-enlightenment

-English Whig tradition

War and Independence

I. Toward Independence

-2^nd Continental Congress and Civil War

-Ft. Ticonderoga-Green Mountain Boys (Ethan Allen) May 1775

-Olive Branch Petition

-Declaration of the Causes and Necessities

-George Washington-head of Continental Army

-Breed’s Hill and Bunker Hill June 1775

-Proclamation of Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition

-Canada

-Prohibitionary Act

-Countryside

II. Common Sense

-Artisans and laborers

-Scots-Irish

-Thomas Paine-independence and republicanism

III. Independence declared

-Lee Resolutions

-Declaration of Independence (vote July 2)

-July 4, 1776

War and Conflict 1776-1778

I. War in the North

A. Strategy

1. Britain

2. Colonies

B. Myths of the War

C. Militia

D. New York

E. Trenton-Princeton

F. Campaign of 1777

1. British plan-

2. Daniel Morgan

3. Battle of Bennington-Bemis Heights

4. Saratoga

5. Brandywine and Germantown

G. Plan of conciliation

H. Treaty of Alliance