AMH-2097 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Quartering Acts, Sugar Act, Paxton Boys
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Plan of union: the great awakening, caused the north and the south to split due to religious ties. a. i. Questioned why taxes had to be paid to a church that they no longer believed in. a. ii. Debate of separation of church and state. a. iii. 1. The british were practicing a policy that allowed the colonists to handle their own affairs: 1760"s- the great awakening began to die down. Public addresses would start to accuse the king and officials of being aristocrats. b. i. The colonists were starting to put pressure on the british for more rights. b. ii. England and france went to war in 1750"s. b. iii. English colonists felt challenged by presence of the french and native. American troops because they were allies: june 1754- plan of union was drawn up by benjamin franklin. British thought colonists had too much power over this council. c. iii.
