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CHAPTER 4: LOYALISTS AND THE MEANING OF REVOLUTION

LOYALTY RE: AMERICAN LOYALTY RE: AMERICAN REVOLUTIONREVOLUTION  Loyal: adj. 1. faithful to one’s

allegiance, as to a sovereign, government, or state: a loyal subject.

2. faithful to one’s oath, commitments, or obligations: to be loyal to a vow. 3. faithful to any person or thing conceived of as deserving fidelity or imposing obligations: a loyal friend. [antonym: Linda Tripp]

INCIDENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION INCIDENTS AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACTSOF ACTS◦ Paxton Boys (with the Regulators as

predecessors) - frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin (1763) murdered 20 Susquehannock in events collectively

called the Conestoga Massacre Retaliated against the Native Americans after the French/Indian War.

◦ Gaspee Incident (Gaspee Point – R.I.) – A British customs agent Enforced unpopular trade regulation in 1772 Many (loyalists) were defiant Looted and torched the ship The customs service in Britain’s North American

colonies in the eighteenth-century had a violent history

Customs ships

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE REVOLUTION (continued…)

◦ Hutchinson Incident (Letters Affair) – Ben Franklin and Sam Adams dislike this guy (Governor Tom H.)The content of the letters inducted propaganda which claimed by Massachusetts radical politicians to call for the abridgement of colonial rights,

and a duel was fought in England over the matter

◦ Tea Act – tax on tea (Boston Tea Party)

◦ Coercive (Intolerable) Act – the several acts the British imposed on all 13 colonies.

Quartering Act (could use private, occupied homes)

◦ Quebec Act (French guaranteed Catholic religion, boundaries extended into Ohio, old institutions intact, including appt’d council and no trial by jury in civil cases)

◦ First Continental Congress Suffolk Resolves (Intolerable Acts null

and void, taxes to be withheld, armed militia set up, boycott of British goods)

.VARIOUS ACTS CONTINUED…VARIOUS ACTS CONTINUED…

TAXATION W/O REPRESENTATIONTAXATION W/O REPRESENTATION Declaration of Rights

and Grievances (outlined American political theory, esp. no taxation w/o representation)

Continental Association (enforced boycott - worked locally and very effective)◦ Lexington and

Concord

PATRIOTS, LOYALISTS & TYRANNYPATRIOTS, LOYALISTS & TYRANNY Both the Patriots and the Loyalists were

concerned about tyranny and both feared a conspiracy against their liberties. In what ways do their understandings of tyranny differ?

◦ Loyalists tended to fear the tyranny of the lower classes, i.e. the mob.

◦ In a larger sense, they feared factions, and the Patriots were an example of that in their eyes.

◦ Loyalists were alarmed by the social backgrounds of the Patriots.

LOYALISTS (continued…)LOYALISTS (continued…)

◦ Loyalist leaders were convinced that only social deference and respect for authority prevented disunity, chaos, anarchy, and tyranny (all of which they saw in colonial mobs).

◦ Loyalists had their own sense of “conspiracy.”

FILM ON REVOLUTIONARY WARFILM ON REVOLUTIONARY WAR

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

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Dr. Aaron W. Navarro, Ph.D. – Harvard UniversityTrinity University Professor of History

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon is a featured guest speaker at Trinity on March 21, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. – Flora Auditorium

THE REVOLUTIONARY WARTHE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Revolutionary War Summary The Revolutionary War started in April 1775

when British troops quartered in Boston attempted to seize munitions stored by colonial militias at Concord, Massachusetts.

During the final days of 1776, General George Washington crossed the Delaware River into New Jersey and rolled up outlying British garrisons at Trenton and Princeton.

This established a pattern that held for the rest of the war. Whileat this point the British controlled the territory they occupied with major forces, primarily New York City and Philadelphia, The colonists controlled the rest of the land.

REVOLUTIONARY WAR (Cont.)REVOLUTIONARY WAR (Cont.) On February 6, 1778, the United

States and France signed the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce.

The signing of these treaties signaled official recognition of the new republic. On July 10, 1778, Louis XVI of France declared war against the Kingdom of Great Britain on behalf of the Americans.

CEASE OF WARCEASE OF WAR

The British House of Commons voted to end the war in April 1782. The government of war proponent Lord North was ousted.

The British pulled their remaining troops from Charleston, South Carolina and Georgia in the summer of 1782. On November 30, 1782 preliminary peace articles were signed in Paris.

THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR COMES THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR COMES TO AN ENDTO AN END

The formal end of the war took place when the Treaty of Paris was signed on September 3, 1783. The Congress of the United States ratified the treaty on January 14, 1784. The last of the British troops in America left New York City on November 25, 1783.

February 4, 1783 Great Britain formally declared that it would cease combat in North America.

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CHAPTER 5: THE CONSTITUTION

THE CONSTITUTIONTHE CONSTITUTIONthe thought that the Constitution was undemocratic and that there were classes – holders of “paper” wealth and holder of “real” wealth was not popular, especially in the rising tide of Nationalism that characterizes the early 20th century

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