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THE INDEPENDENCE OF US : - Coggle Diagram
THE INDEPENDENCE OF US :
Thirteen colonies:
English people: North America (1607)
Eastern coast of the United States
130000 white people
350000 black people
AGRICULTURE: main economic activity
CAUSES OF THE INDEPENDENCE
IDEOLOGICAL
Enlightenment ideas
Separation of powers, popular sovereignty
National societies
Sons of liberty
POLITICAL
Main cause: representation of the colonists in the parliament
Way of protesting of the colonies: "NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION"
PARLIAMENT: An institution in charge of rising the taxes
REPUBLICANISM IN THE COLONIES
ECONOMIC
Own economic system
Great Britain interested in natural resources of the colonies
They refused
Great Britain had the monolopoly of the products
Difficulties for the colonies to trade
TAXES
Stamp Act
Stamped paper
Tea act
Monopoly
Taxes on tea
BOSTON TEA PARTY
1773
Protest
Tea threw to the sea
THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
1775-1783
Loyalists
Support the king
Were supposted by the British Army
Patriots
Were in favour of Independence
Were led by George Washington
Couldn't pay for their military campaigns
SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN PHILADELPHIA
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Thomas Jefferson
Enlightement ideas
liberty
happinnes
popular
sovereignty
4th July 1776
Battle of Saratoga
1777
Turning point of the war
British army defeated by the colonists
Battle of Yorkstown
1781
Surrender of the British Army
Help of the Spanish and the Frech
Menorca and Florida back to Spain
Saint Lucia and Tobago to France
CONSTITUTION OF THE US 1787
17th September 1787
First Contitution in History
Federal republic
Autority to rule in each state
George Washington
First president of US
1789
Separation of powers
Legislative power
Senate
House of Representatives
Executive power
President
Elected every four years
Judicial power
Supreme Court
Elected by the President
CONSEQUENCES OF THE INDEPENDENCE
The proof that the democratic ideas could be applied
Keep working looking for a society based on equality
An impact in France
FRENCH REVOLUTION