1. The American Revolution Chapter 10, Section 4

2. Do Now! Where did the Enlightenment happen? How far did it’s ideas reach? The Ideas of the Enlightenment had clearly made an impact on the colonies in North America. In response to their unfair taxation and other issues, the colonists revolted against British rule, formed their own army, and declairedtheir independence. Many Europeans saw the American Revolution as the embodiment of the Enlightenment Political Dreams…

3. Map of Colonial America

5. 1707

6. British = English and Scottish

7. Monarchy and parliament share power

8. Hanoverians

9. Dynasty 1714

10. Last Stuart ruler died (Queen Anne)

11. King George I

12. Crowned King

13. Not speak English (German Protestant)

14. Robert Walpole

15. Head of Cabinet  1st Prime Minister

16. Peaceful foreign policy

18. Americas  highly important ports

19. Boston

20. Charleston

21. New York City

22. Canada

23. India

24. Controlled American Colonies:

25. British Board of Trade

26. Royal Council

27. Parliament

28. Colonies in America

29. 1,000,000 people by 1750

30. Gained wealth through trade

32. Salutary neglect

33. British needed to pay for the way

34. Taxation without Representation

35. Stamp Act (1765)

36. Tax on printed materials

37. First of many taxes imposed  British oppression

38. Rebellion begins

39. Americans not want to pay taxes without rights

40. First Continental Congress

41. Meets in Philadelphia

42. September 1774

45. Major Revolutionary War general

46. Commander and Chief

47. First President of the United States

48. Thomas Jefferson

49. The Declaration of Independence

50. July 4, 1776

51. Formally began Revolution

53. Stated the United States was seceding from British control

54. The Constitution

55. Laws and Government Structure for the United States

56. Created a Federal System

57. National and state government shared power

58. Based on Montesquieu’s ideas  3 branches

59. Legislative  2 sub-branches

60. Democracy and balance of power

61. The Bill or Rights

62. Amendments to the Constitution

63. 12 proposed  10 enacted

64. Guaranteed freedoms of: