3.7 Strengths and weaknesses
Colonial.
Multiple countries
Badly organized
Great military training
Lots of motivation to fight.
Phases
Phase #3
early 1778-1781
The South
Phase #2
late 1777 early 1778
Middle colonies
Subtopic
Phase #1
1776 Late 1777
Containment in New England
British
Weaknesses
Brutal punishments
No motivation for soldiers to fight.
Strengths
They had more troops and better supplies.
One country
What were the major causes of the conflict between the colonists and British authorities after 1763?
Thomas Paine
He releases a book called Common Sense that states that no were in the universe has a smaller heavenly body controlled a larger heavenly body. So with this logic why should a smaller body of land control a larger body of land.
3.5 "We Hold These Truths to Be Self Evident" 1776
Olive tree branch
This was a peace treaty offer made by the colonists after a battle but the king did not want to hear it.
Conciliatory Resolution
This was a message from the king for the colonists to come back to Britain rule.
The Second Continental Congress
George Washington gets elected as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental army. June 15
After this the y finally have their firsyt battle and won by numbers but lost in the big picture. June 17
Colonist's frustrations with the English.
The British wanted to tax the colonists without giving representation.
England started taxing on sugar, clothes, coffee, iron, newspapers legal documenta playing cards tea paper lead and glass
Proclamation line of 1763
This proclamation prevented colonists from going away from the east coast.
Boston Massacre
The British create a way to spread information through out the colonies faster.
5 colonists shot dead while rioting against the British.
Acts
The stamp act
Sons of Liberty were a terrorist organization with the main goal of pushing to appeal the stamp act.
This act wanted to take away all taxes.
The quartering act allowed soldiers to stay in the colonists houses.
Mercantilism
When a colony supports the mother country.
The raw materials get bought from England and then the colonists get sold the finished goods.
Molasses Act
All Molasses trades go through England.
Writs of Assistance
This act allows British officials to search ships and buildings without a warrant in order to enforce the Molasses act.
Navigation act
All trade goes through England.
The colonists can only get the finished goods from England but England can get raw materials fro anywhere.
What were the causes and effects of the French and Indian war.
Causes
Gov. Dinwiddle of Virginia sent George Washington to force the French out of PA.
Main topic
Effects
The national debt in England doubled.
They taxed the home islands but not the colonies.
The king of England created the Proclamation line of 1763 that prevented colonists to leave the coast in order to prevent from fights with the Natives.
French gave all of Canada to England.
