31.03.2009

Obama was born in 1961, not in 1951. In the reader his birthyear is wrong.

House of Hannover is Windsor since 1917.

Elizabeth II is also from the house of Hannover. In 1917 the named was changed to house of Windsor.

´´nonconformists`` ´´separatists``  ´´dissenters`` are politically against the church hierarchy, against the monarchy, radical democrats(?), left-wings , midle class and literate. As you now the terms counted above are used for puritans.

The Mayflower Compact took place in 11 November 1620. Puritans introduced selection of ministers/officers e.g. sheriff.

hearings,

stump speeches

platforms

congregationalism( small number of people conveniantly in one place)

Sheriff was elected by the puritan community. There was also a school board.

colonial heritage of 13 states:

-democratic in smaller systems, common schools.

-city upon a hill. In 1830 a puritan city in Massachusetts.

-the indispensible nation 

-the only superpower

-hyperpuissance---hyperpower (French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine used this term in 1999) 

Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies appear without the permisson of the Queen.

New Jersy: Swedish Colony

New York: Dutch Colony. 

THREE DISTINCTIVE CULTURAL REGIONS

1) New England. ´´Puritan``,´´nonconformist``, republican political system

MA-CT-RI-NH

MA: Massachussetts

CT: Connecticut

RI: Rhode-Island

NH: New Hampshire

Puritans: ministers, sheriffs. If you are dissattisfied with your officers you can impeach them. You cannot impeach in royal system.

The Middle Colonies: 

NY-NJ-PA

NY: New York

NJ: New Jersey

PA: Pennsylvania

The Southern Colonies:

VA-MD-DE-NC-SC-GA

VA: Virginia

MD: Maryland

DE: Delaware

NC: North Carolina

SC: South Carolina

GA: Georgia

1861-1865:North and South American civil war.We cannot say that, not all northerners were against slavery and vice versa for southerners.

South was dependent on tobacco, cotton rice, big plantation to run the system. They needed slaves.

Whole of the south had two major cities:

Baltimore the capital of Maryland.

Charlston in South Caroline. In between small villiges.

North East: Middle colonies and New England.

South: aristocratic heritage

New England: Puritan heritage. 

Puritan New England and aristocratic southern colonies. Pennsylvania wanted to be passive.

How 13 colonies united against the king George III, the mad king:

Timeline 1763-1789

1763: End of Indian and French war in Canada. British defeated French. Canada became dominion of the UK.

George Washington was the commander of the continental army.

1763: The proclamation of 1763. click here 

1764: The Currency Act and the Sugar Act is passed by British Parliament 

1765: The Stamp Act is passed by parliament. 

1765: The Quartering Act of 1765 is passed 

1770: Boston Massacre (March 5) 

1773: The Parliament passes the Tea Act 

1773: Boston Tea Party (December 16) 

1774: The First Continental  Congress meets; twelve colonies send delegates.

1775: Battles of Lexington and  Concord (April 19)

1775: The Second Continental Congress meets 

1776: Decleration of Independence (July 2-4) Main author is Thomas Jefferson.

1777: Battle of Saratoga, British army under General Burgoyne surrenders (October 7) 

1778: Treaty of Alliance with France 

1781: The British surrender at Yorktown (October 19) 

1783: The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War (September 3) 

1787: Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 

1789: Constitution goes into effect ( June 4)

1789: George Washington becomes President 

I think it is very useful for you to have a look at this homepage. Please click here for the comprehensive timeline. 

New Orleans until Louisiana was French, Florida was Spanish.

British defeated French, as a result catholisizm was illegal. French language was illegal too. Many French left. They went to France or to Caribbean, Haiti, French  Guiana or to Arcadia.

If French lost, why is French spoken in Canada Quebec?

New England made an offer to French people. If Quebec rebels against the British, it can be the state of the union. You can be the 14th state in 1780. This was the offer. King learned the offer and wanted French people not to start the rebel. Stay catholic and have French, and don`t join the states.

George III, after defeating the French in Canada had little money left.

There were only Powhatans in the east. Indiand passed the Appalachian mountains. King said the mountains were the western borders. Proclamation line. People in the south, as the plantation became successful, did not  obey and went , expanded to the west. Please also clik here

 

 

 

 

 

 

King insisted on the Sugar Act though southerners had sugar plantations. New jersey had to buy sugar from England. 

On the book covers there was a Stample Act money which was 5 Pence. If you sell and buy a property, it costs you 5 pence. King needed money, that is why this system was applied. Life became more expensive, and people got angry.

Each houshold had to station a soldier, and feed him. This Quartering Act. We defeated Frenchmen, saved you from Indians, and now you should house a soldier.

House of Lords: Inherited

House of Commons: Elected

None of the colonies was represented in the UK. Reason for this: They are not full subjects. They are colonists.  

The Boston Massacre in 1770: People rebelled against the troops stationed there. 5 Bostoners died.  Bostoners started the fire, and British soldiers deffended themselves.

1773: Tea had to be imported from from the UK. and tax was added. Tea couldn`t be produced.A group of 30 to 130 mean disguised into Indian clothes boarded three English vessels and over the course of 3 hours, dumped all 342 chests of tea into the water. This is called Boston Tea Party. Britain declared that Harbour of Boston was closed.

1774: Continental Congress in Pennsylvania.( In terms of political debates, Pennsylvania was the head).

Continentals: Patriots or rebels. 

Royalists:Loyal 

Rbels are minutemen. They are ready to fight within a minute. 

Lexington: A little village around Boston. Minutemen, Patriots were waiting for British troop.

Prussian military virtue: Building of guards. Your are not allowed to leave your line. If you leave your line, it means you are a coward. You should be shot.

On teh way to Boston from Lexington, 200 British soldiers were killed by snipers.

1777: Battle of Saratoga: On the Hudson River. Saratoga is in the valley. You cannot escape east and west.  France supplied the ammunation of the army. Benjamin Franklin persuaded Frenchmen to help in Paris.

New York was split. It is called the Empire State. New York had British flag even after the Treaty of Paris. 

For Loyalists please click here 

 

The names for 13 colonies:

1) TUPONA: We United Provinces of North America

2) The United States of North America

3)  The United States of America.