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First set of colonies with Virginia and Maryland. From 1607 to 1634. Economy based on Tobacco. Indentured servant and enslaved people are central. More men than women. Unequal societies. -
1620s, 1640s. Second set of colonies by Puritans for religious motives. With Massachusetts, Rhodes ISland, Connecticut and New Hampshire. Arrived in family groups with goods and livestock. Independent landholders. Society less stratified, healthier environment and climate. Many small farm, large families that works on the farms. 2%enslaved and traded with natives.
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Contract signed on the ship, established a «Civil Body Politic». Every male owning a piece of land could take part in politics. Self-government. Political rights to Puritan.
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Third set of colonies by. King Charles II, with Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware. As a reward for his allies after the fight with the Dutch. The Quakers lead by William Penn. Nonviolent, equality. Peaceful treatment of Indians but Coercion and deceit. Opposed to slavery but 20% enslaved in 1750 (40% of population of New York)
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1669s, 1732 with Carolina (divided) and Georgia. Large rice and indigo plantations. Rely on the slave trade. Enslaved people with more autonomy (master not on the plantation) but still horrible conditions.
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1670s, period of social unrest. Rebellion against colonial power by poor planters who want more land. Violence against Native American and hostility against England.
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7 years war. War between France and England with their respective Native Americans allies in North America, Europe and West Indies. In 1763, France cedes in its colonies to England (winner). UK controls whole North American eastern seaside. -
Limits war with Native Americans. Document that set out guidelines for European settlement. Officially claim British territory in North America after Britain won the Seven Years War. -
Sugar Act: stopping smuggling trade in sugar and molasses and have to pay a taxe.
Currency Act: Settlers cannot use other currency than the British one. -
Creatino of a new DIRECT tax. To make all document official you need a stamp (that you have to pay for) to ensure it -
full power and authority to make laws… to bind the colonies and people of America… in all cases whatsoever” (they must obey the decisions as they are subject of the British crown.) -
New direct taxes on glass, paint, tea… Incentives for Royal officers to enforce acts. -
Except on the tax on tea
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Resistance to Stamp Act (resolves, violent popular mob burning effigies) and Townshed Act -
Peroetrated in King street Boston by a party if the 29th Regt. Lead to outrage from all colonies. -
The Act granted the Company the right to directly ship its tea to North America and the right to the duty-free export of tea from Britain, although the tax imposed by the Townshend Acts and collected in the colonies remained in force.
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To protest British Parliament's tax on tea. "No taxation without representation." The demonstrators boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into the Boston Harbor. -
The Coercive Acts passed by Parliament in 1774. The four acts were the Boston Port Bill (closed Boston Harbor); the Massachusetts Government Act (replaced the elective local government with an appointive one and increased the powers of the military governor); the Administration of Justice Act (allowed British officials charged with capital offenses to be tried in another colony or in England) and the Quartering Act (permitted the requisition of unoccupied buildings to house British troops)
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In September. Continental Association + new declaration of rights. Most still expect a peaceful resolution within the British Empire. -
Also called the Revolutionary War, was the military conflict between Britain and the American colonies. It began with the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. -
First battle of the War of Independence, Massachusetts colonists defied British authority. American victory. The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War. -
By Thomas Paine (excise officer, Fierce critic of the British monarchy, Migrated to Pennsylvania in 1774)
Denounces monarchy and the logic of the British Empire. Very influential small pamphlet (46 p.): 100, 000 copies were sold within a month — Stirred American public opinion towards independence -
5-man committee with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson:
-From colonies to states; dissolving with the British empire
-Idea that All men are created equal; their rights can’t be taken away; representative are only powerful because they were chosen by the people, legitimacy by the consent of the people that elected them;right to rebel if the government is not fulfilling their role -
First governing document, weak central government, no power to tax or maintain a standing army
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Signed by U.S. and British Representatives, ending the War of the American Revolution.
THE US BECAME A FREE NATION -
55 Delegates, including James Madison, met to draft a new Constitution -
Proposed following the bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists
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Jackson becomes a national hero
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Jackson wins the popular and electoral vote but loses due to the "corrupt bargain" with John Quincy Adams
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Jackson wins in a landslide, marking the rise of the Democratic Party.
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It was signed by Andrew Jackson and it forced Native Americans to move to the west of the Mississippi River
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Thousands of Cherokee die during forced relocation
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First women’s rights convention, issuing the Declaration of Sentiments which broadcasts the injustice and suffering of women taking some passages from the declaration of independence.