Western Civ 2

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Liberty

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Specific rights

Government based on social contract

Representative government

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Equality

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Equality of opportunity

Equal access to wealth

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Those who could not participate

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women

slaves

white men who owned insufficient property

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John Locke

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representative government

government should protect life, liberty, and property

right to resist oppressive government

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Montesquieu

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balance and separation of powers in government

wealthy upper classes are best suited to govern

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printing

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helped popularize liberal political theory among people

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1763

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end of seven years war

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british government

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kept large army in america as protection from indians

taxed colonies to help pay for war: stamp act

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1765 stamp act

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a direct tax on pamphlets, newspapers, dice, playing cards etc.

protest develops with colonial government committees formed to keep each other informed

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Americans paid

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2 shillings per year

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british paid

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26 or more shillings per year

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parliament

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repealed the tax due to widespread protest

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american colonies prior to 1763

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two kinds of colonies - royal and proprietary

colonial assemblies with local representatives

freedom of religion and high degree of social mobility

british policy of benign neglect

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benign neglect

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british direct taxation of the colonies seemed intrusive after years of this policy

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1773 east india company

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in financial difficulties

permitted to ship tea directly to company agents in colonies, bypassing colonial merchants

permitted to charge 3 pence tax on tea: direct tax

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the boston tea party

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bostonians dressed as indians threw east india tea from their ships into the boston harbor

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coercive acts

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boston port blockaded

freedom of assembly for town meetings suspended

no local elections

royal governor of massachusetts given greater power

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committees of correspondence

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formed to inform and coordinate resistance activities among the colonies

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concerted attempts by colonial leaders to gain widespread support for opposition to britain

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most common people didn't drink tea and were not certain they wanted to get involved

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1774 september

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first continental congress in philadelphia: rejection of compromise with britain

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1775 april

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lexingotn - concord: the fighting begins

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July 4th 1776 Declaration of Independence

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authored by thomas jefferson, this document changed the nature of the revolution

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americans aided by

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french: ex: marquis de lafayette

1779 and 1780: spanish-dutch war against britain

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1783 treaty of paris

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american independence and all british territory between the allegheny mountains and the mississippi

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Articles of Confederation: in effect (1781-1788)

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provisional government with a legislature but no power to tax or regulate trade

small national army or around 17,000

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Summer 1787

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constitutional convention: a totally new constitution drawn up that had to be ratified by the colonies. based on montesquieu's balance and separation of powers

executive/president, legislative/house and senate, judicial/supreme court

federalists, antifederalists

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federalists

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argued ratification prior to a bill of rights

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anti-federalists

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sought a bill of rights and more power for individual states

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1788 ratification of constitution by 11 of 13 colonies

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North Carolina (1790) and Rhode Island (1791)

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1789

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bill of rights established

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slaves

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considered private property

freed in 1865 with the 13th amendment the constitution

1870 15th amendment

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1870 15th amendment

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voting rights not to be denied of basis of race, color or previous condition of servitude: jim crow laws were devised to still prevent voting rights

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1960s civil rights movement

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dr. martin luther king jr.

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1965

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voting rights act

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women

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considered equal before the law but not capable of political participations

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abigail adams

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the first american woman to suggest greater equality

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1790 judith sergeant murray

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on the equality of the sexes

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170 mary wollstonecraft

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english woman who wrote a vindication of the rights of woman at the time

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1848 seneca falls convention

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convened by lucretia mott and elizabeth cady stanton

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1920 19th amendment

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women get the right to vote

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native americans

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still resistant to European control until the 1880s