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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
THE THIRTEEN COLONIES
Groups of European emigrants
Had settled
On the east coast of North America
Some had fled
Political instability
Religious persecution
From their countries of origin
The British monarchy
Organised the colonists
Into 13 demarcations or colonies
Had to pay a series of taxes
To the British Crown
A governor
The king’s representative
Held the highest authority
In each colony
His power
Was almost exclusively military
For all other matters
The colonists
Ruled themselves
Through the colonial assemblies
After the Seven Years’ War
The British created
A large permanent army in America
Forced the colonists to fund it
Through new taxes
The colonists rebelled
Their slogan
‘No taxation without representation’
They had no representatives
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A revolutionary process began
Delegates from the Thirteen Colonies
Met in Philadelphia
Declared independence
The colonies
Became known as states
The new country was called
The United States of America
The British
Were opposed to these changes
The American War of Independence began
France, Spain and the United Provinces
Supported the colonists
To weaken Great Britain
After the battles of
Saratoga and Yorktown
Won by the colonists
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The Peace of Paris
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Great Britain
Formally recognised
The new country’s independence.
THE POLITICAL REGIME OF THE UNITED STATES
The delegates
Drafted a Constitution
Was approved in 1787
Incorporated
Into a country’s fundamental law
Political liberal principles
Ideas of thinkers
Locke, Rousseau and Montesquieu
The key points
Are still in force today
The constitution
Popular sovereignty
The United States citizens
Hold the power
Federal republic
Government functions
Are divided between
The capital (Washington DC)
The different federated states
Were mainly independent
Separation of powers
The executive consists of
The president
The legislative consists of
The Congress and Senate
The judicial consists of
The Supreme Court
Head of state
The president
Chosen by the House of Representatives
Every four years
Suffrage
Is in place to elect
Members of the House of Representatives
The recognition
Of basic rights to life
Liberty and property
Of freedoms
Including religious, printing, assembly, etc.
Members of the House of Representatives
Elected by censitary suffrage
Allowed only white adult males
Who owned a certain number of properties
To participate in the elections
About 6% of the total population
Members of the Senate
Two for each federated state
Were elected
By the state parliaments
Universal manhood suffrage for white men
Was approved by
The states of Vermont, Pennsylvania and Kentucky
Slavery
Was maintained
In the states in the southern half of the country
