AMH 2010 Lecture Notes - Guerrilla Warfare, General Idea, Sugar Act
Document Summary
The great awakening: bridge connecting world of salem possessed and the world of the. Thanks to tga no longer did the critiquing of government was equivalent to critiquing of god/church: criticize government without being blasphemous. Government had no authority or insight into the legitimacy of religious institutions: people refused to pay taxes to help support churches. General idea: thanks to tga so much in america changed. Taxation without representation wasn"t necessarily the true. Sovereignty and liberty - wasn"t necessarily true either. Majority of american colonists didn"t care too highly for philosophy and cerebral literature: didn"t go to war over lofty ideals especially when they agreed with so much of english ideals. Colonists weren"t too smart to consider the term sovereignty . Reasons for going to war: the 7 years war french and indian war. Let it be noted the french an indigenous were on the same side.