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Seven Years War 1756-63 British and France over territory, in India for trade, British won both financial crisis. taxation
Road to Revolution
1756-63: Seven Years War
1763: “Proclamation Line”
1765: Quartering Act and Stamp Act
1770: Boston Massacre
1773: Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
1774: “Intolerable Acts”
1774: First Continental Congress
1776 July 4: Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Britain recognizes American independence
Fix borders between US and British North America(Mississippi River)
Diplomacy of new republic (1783-1812)
New states are weak and fractious under Articles of Confederation (1776-1789)
1787: Constitutional Convention gather in Philadelphia and agrees on new Constitutional for the United States
Sets up three branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial)
Defines relationship of federal to state governments
Defines procedures for amendment
Includes Bill of Rights:
Freedom of press, speech, religion, and petition
Limits search and seizure, guarantees fair trial by jury
Protects power of states
George Washington becomes first president (1789-1797)
His foreign policy：
Neutrality Proclamation (in wars of French Revolution after 1792)
Executive privilege (over Jay Treaty, 1794)
Farewell Address (1796)
No permanent alliances
Emphasis on free trade
The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
War of 1812
Causes:
British trade restrictions
Impressment of US sailor into Royal Navy
US desire to expand west
War:
1812-13: British forces repel US attempts to invade Canada
1814: British forces capture and burn Washington in summer 1814
1814-15: US repels British invasion in New York and New Orleans, among others.
1815: Treaty of Ghent ends war, preserves territorial status quo
Consequences:
Heightened sense of nationalism in US (“Second War of Independence”）
Britain’s Native American (Indian) allies were roundly
Seven Years War 1756-63 British and France over territory, in India for trade, British won both financial crisis. taxation
Road to Revolution
1756-63: Seven Years War
1763: “Proclamation Line”
1765: Quartering Act and Stamp Act
1770: Boston Massacre
1773: Tea Act and Boston Tea Party
1774: “Intolerable Acts”
1774: First Continental Congress
1776 July 4: Declaration of Independence
Treaty of Paris, 1783
Britain recognizes American independence
Fix borders between US and British North America(Mississippi River)
Diplomacy of new republic (1783-1812)
New states are weak and fractious under Articles of Confederation (1776-1789)
1787: Constitutional Convention gather in Philadelphia and agrees on new Constitutional for the United States
Sets up three branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial)
Defines relationship of federal to state governments
Defines procedures for amendment
Includes Bill of Rights:
Freedom of press, speech, religion, and petition
Limits search and seizure, guarantees fair trial by jury
Protects power of states
George Washington becomes first president (1789-1797)
His foreign policy：
Neutrality Proclamation (in wars of French Revolution after 1792)
Executive privilege (over Jay Treaty, 1794)
Farewell Address (1796)
No permanent alliances
Emphasis on free trade
The Louisiana Purchase (1803)
War of 1812
Causes:
British trade restrictions
Impressment of US sailor into Royal Navy
US desire to expand west
War:
1812-13: British forces repel US attempts to invade Canada
1814: British forces capture and burn Washington in summer 1814
1814-15: US repels British invasion in New York and New Orleans, among others.
1815: Treaty of Ghent ends war, preserves territorial status quo
Consequences:
Heightened sense of nationalism in US (“Second War of Independence”）
Britain’s Native American (Indian) allies were roundly