HIST 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Olive Branch Petition, Prohibitory Act, Continental Army
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13 february 2014: wars on the battlefields. Slaves turn the tide: wars on the battlefields, common sense attempts to make the appeal of the political concept of liberty. John adams despised thomas paine: b/c paine advocates for basic human equality (rich&poor, master&slave, etc. ) and this doctrine could potentially change civilization as a whole, prohibitory act (1775, king george iii"s response to the olive branch petition. He states that he now dis-owns those colonists in the americas & they are no longer under his protection. It is seen as a declaration of war on his own subjects: once the continental congress hears of what the king has done, they make their. He learns his lesson in the battle of long island and he strategized to lye and wait. Wars on the frontier: native americans known that an american victory could spell disaster for their way of life, the eventual victory for the americans proved to be disastrous for the native peoples.