English and American Revolutions

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  1. 3. He is recognized as the founder of British empiricism and the author of the first systematic exposition and defense of political liberalism.
  2. 5. Battles that kicked off the American Revolution
  3. 8. was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
  4. 9. The Boston Massacre was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which a group of nine British soldiers killed three people of a crowd of three or four hundred who were abusing them verbally
  5. 13. a debt contracted by a state in order to carry on and pay for a war.
  6. 15. began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire
  7. 16. During Charles' reign, his actions frustrated his Parliament and resulted in the wars of the English Civil War, eventually leading to his execution in 1649.
  8. 18. led armies of the Parliament of England against King Charles I during the English Civil War
  9. 20. The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland took place in 1660 when King Charles II returned from exile in continental Europe.
  10. 23. Destroyed the power of the king
  11. 24. To explain the colonists rights and give them freedom.
  12. 25. The English Civil War was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists, mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom.
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  1. 1. It involved the overthrow of the Catholic king James II, who was replaced by his Protestant daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange.
  2. 2. Meeting to state colonists concers and have the king correct his problems
  3. 4. was a versatile and prolific writer. In his lifetime he published numerous works, including books, plays, poems, and polemics.
  4. 6. was a meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies in America that united in the American Revolutionary War.
  5. 7. Overthrew Catholic King James 2
  6. 10. James's firm belief in the divine right of kings, and constant need for money, also brought him into conflict repeatedly with parliament.
  7. 11. Tax on stamps and mailing documents
  8. 12. designed to aid the financially troubled East India Company by granting it (1) a monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies, (2) an exemption on the export tax, and (3) a “drawback” (refund) on duties owed on certain surplus quantities of tea in its possession.
  9. 14. he granted religious minorities the right to worship.
  10. 17. the agreement recognized U.S. independence and granted the U.S. significant western territory.
  11. 19. Rights The bill outlined specific constitutional and civil rights and ultimately gave Parliament power over the monarchy.
  12. 21. Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.
  13. 22. The laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British Government.