revolution unit Flashcards
(35 cards)
boston massacre
the first time an element of government (the brittish) meant to protect, turned their guns on the colonists
enlightenment thinkers (def)
social contract theory
-government and the governed
enlightenment thinkers (list)
- johnlock, personal freedom (property)
- montesquiev, split soverignity
- thomas paine, colonist advocate for revolution
treaty of paris
stops the seven year war-new france ceases to exist
-both france + brittian end up broke, sets up course for FN
navigation acts
economic problem, monopoly for colonial merchants
-mercantilism forcing colonies to loose money
-controlled substances -> keeping american buisness small
stamp act
tax on items (newspaper, deeds, wills, cards)
-only in the colonies, one of the BIGGEST unfairness
taxaition without representation
ultimate unfairness
boston tea party
boston people dressed up as FN and poured tons of tea into the harbour
attempt to strike back
quebec act
gives colonial governance/freedom to par
- stops from moving westward
- quebec gets everything > colonists get nothing
montesuieu
author of 'split of the laws' 3 branches (judicial, executive, legislative)
split soverignity
3 branches in the government
- excutive
- legislative
- judicial
personal freedom
ability to own land
social contract theory
relationship between the government and the governede (free speech, right to earn money)
royal proclimation line
separates FN land from colonial land
controlled substances
important products that are heavily watched over by the government (sugar, cotton, government)
cotton
product that started england industrialism, india and southern american states
tea
luxury item, want not need > creates profit
boston
most important port in colonies
billet
families asked to take you on
atonomance
treated with freedom but some stopping rules
idependant
full freedom
intolerable acts
four laws that, colonists thought were unfair
1) closed down boston part
2) stops elected officials from making decisions
3) military law > martial law, being run by military
4) billet
start of revolution
brittish troops come ashore
george III
makes eratic decisions > crazy came from attempts to kill him, and blood diseases