POLI 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: First Continental Congress, Articles Of Confederation, Daniel Shays

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Essay questions on midterm on review articles of confederation and shay"s rebellion. Freedom in colonial america: american colonists were british subjects, with many freedom. So why change it: taxes, colonists didn"t want taxation without representation, boston tea party, britain responded with the coercive act, colonists called the first continental congress. The first continental congress: adopted a statement of principles, elected a president , claimed a right to life, liberty, and property and to assemble, consider grievances, and petition the king , planned to reconvene shots already fired. Second continental congress: as it convened, relationship with brain was deterioration further--the colonists. How did america win: fighting for a cause, fighting for their lives, vast territory = hard to subdue without achieving total control, help from french navy and dutch loans, british had to transport everything across the ocean. Major compromises on the road to a constitution: small states/large states, slavery, federalism.

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