Securing Independence
Chapter 6
Civil War or War for Independence?
Loyalists (Tories)
The role of slaves
The role of Native Americans
The American Revolution
British Advantages
British Disadvantages
American Advantages
American Disadvantages
The role of George Washington
The American Revolution
Trenton (December 25-26, 1776)
Saratoga (October 7, 1777)
Charleston (1780)
Yorktown (October 1781)
The role of Guerilla Warfare
Major Battles
The Treaty of Paris, 1783
American Independence
New Borders
Eventual problems with the British
The Loyalists flee
Making Peace
Impact of the Declaration
Black Americans
Women
Native Americans
Forming state governments
The worldwide impact
Social Change
The Articles of Confederation
Weak Central Government
Unicameral Congress
Court System?
Executive?
Government
Taxes
Interstate Trade
Foreign Commerce
“Sovereignty, freedom, and independence”
Finances
War Debt
The Continental
Diplomatic Concessions
Declining Exports
Finances
Problems with Native Americans
The Northwest Ordinance
British Forts
Problems with Spain
The West
Shays’s Rebellion
Daniel Shays
Taxes of farmers
1200 farmers rebel
New fears
Rebellion
Annapolis, Maryland
The Philadelphia Convention, 1787
Rhode Island
Nationalist Perspective
Abandoning the Articles
Writing New Rules
James Madison
The Virginia Plan
Fears of the small states
William Paterson’s New Jersey Plan
The Connecticut Compromise
The Constitution
September 1787
Levy and collect taxes
Conduct diplomacy
Protect domestic order
Coin money
regulate foreign commerce
The Constitution
Counting Slaves
The 3/5th’s Compromise
Regulating the slave trade
Slavery
Separation of Powers
Checks and Balances
The 3 Branches of Government
The Electoral College
Ratification
Powers Divided
Federalists
Anti Federalists
The Federalist Papers
The Bill of Rights
“legal and institutional framework within which Americans could struggle to attain democracy”.
The Constitution