Political Science 2244E- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 62 pages long!)

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P o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e 2 2 4 4 e. 1787: only aristocrats and white men made the decisions, war of independence = usa won, revolutionary war = total luck that the usa won, country was massively divided even heading into the war. Finally washington"s commanders want to get troops out, so they set up a retreat and got out before british knew: british always have the americans but through a variety of mismanagement or odd. Sovereign states: no central gov to figure out what"s going on = can"t come together: come together when the threat of invasion from britain. The constitutional convention 1787: purpose = revise the articles, 4 months, wrote new constitution, background, shays rebellion (soldiers weren"t getting what they were promised) Framers: young but experienced white men, educated, hardened by revolutionary war, well read.