1. May 12, 2010
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2.  The rules of the game and the structures that make and
enforce these rules
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Government

3. Power
The ability to get
individuals, groups, or
institutions to do
something [they would
not otherwise do]
Authority
The recognized right
for a particular
individual, group, or
institution to make
binding decisions
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4.  Monarchy
(Constitutional or not)
 Dictatorship
 Oligarchy
 Pluralism
 Pure Democracy
 Representative
 Totalitarian
 Authoritarian
 Constitutional
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5.  Mayflower Compact
• Legalized the Pilgrims’
position as a body politic
 Colonial Assemblies
• Every colony in the New
World had an assembly
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6. If the royal governors were responsive to
the concerns of the assemblies, why did
the colonists become dissatisfied with
British rule?
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7. Two developments upset the balance
1. Debate over the extent of royal authority in
government
2. Financial pressures of the French and Indian
War
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8. Financial causes
Great Squeeze
Townshend Acts
Stamp and Sugar Acts
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9.  In 1765, the Sons of
Liberty organized in
resistance to the Stamp
Act
 Held rallies, sponsored
“committees of
correspondence,” and
recruited community
leaders to their cause
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10. Ideological Motivations
Creation of government with voice for all (white, male,
propertied) citizens
“No taxation without representation”
Debates over nature of self-governance
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11.  First Continental Congress
• Many still hoped for compromise
 Second Continental Congress
• Battle of Lexington showed that compromise was
impossible
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12.  Not really…
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13.  By December 1776, the British seemed
to be winning the war
 Three developments turned the war in
favor of the colonists
1. High-profile victories
2. Thomas Paine’s “Crisis” papers
3. French government supported revolution
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14. “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time
to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1787
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Goal: to bring the
thirteen states together
while allowing each
state to remain
independent
Adopted on March 1,
1781 Under the Articles, each
state issued its own
currency

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19.  No power to regulate interstate commerce
-States could erect trade barriers against each other
 No executive
 No federal courts
 No tax power
-Congress could only request money from the states
 No ability to draft citizens for military service
 No power over foreign policy
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20.  Shays’s Rebellion
• Economic depression
of mid-1780s
 Daniel Shays
• Rallied farmers to
demand change from
government
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