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**Theme:** Independence **Topic:** Articles of Confederation **Free Response Question**: Analyze how the ideas and experience of the revolutionary era influenced the principles embodied in the Articles of Confederation Introductory Paragraph **Setting:** The end of the Revolutionary War meant that the newly formed United States had to quickly form its own government whose principles opposed the repressive regime of Great Britain. **Basis for Analysis**: The founding fathers created the Articles of Confederation to address the issues found during the revolutionary era. **Partitions**: The Articles of Confederation had to reassess the military, economic, and political ideals used during the revolutionary era. **Thesis:** The events from during the Revolutionary War influenced the Articles of Confederation by successfully giving power to the people, but failed to find a suitable system to continue the newly formed government. <span style="background-color: #e1ff00; color: #ff4700; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 17px; text-align: left;">**Partition 1:** Military <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Lexington and Concord-the myth of British invincibility is destroyed, the common man begins to fight in the war <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Boston Massacre-British soldiers attacked Boston citizens, and though the soldiers acted in self defense the story was highly critical of them <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Quartering Act- forced private homes to house British troops <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">French and Indian War-Americans were proud of their role in the war and did not think of independence since they had the military protection of the British.

<span style="background-color: #808000; color: #e1ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: left;">**Partition 2:** Economic <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Navigation Acts-restricted colonial trade, imposed custom duties, all goods had to travel through England, goods carried on English ships

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Salutory Neglect- the British ignored the citizens and had no influence in day to day economic activities

<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Adam Smith’s //The Wealth of Nations//-encouraged Americans to pursue a free market and teaches lessons from the Industrial revolution

<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">** Partition 3: ** Political <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Albany Plan of Union-a proposed meeting to create a plan that united all of the colonies <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Treaty of Paris (1783)-the United States was an independent nation, gave the country’s boundaries, British would collect debt from U.S. citizens, states were told to give back confiscated property <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">First Continental Congress-created the Suffolk Resolves that denounced the Intolerable Acts and started preparations for a military to fight the British, if Parliament did not give relief <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Second Continental Congress-Pleas for peace had been ignored so the U.S. political leaders formed the Declaration of Independence to separate from Great Britain

<span style="background-color: #800080; color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 23px; text-align: left;">General Information: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Proclamation of 1763 <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Sugar Act (1764) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Writs of Assistance <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">“Intolerable” Acts <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> -Massachusetts Government Act <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> -Quartering Act <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> -Boston Port Act <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> -Justice Act <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;"> -Quebec Act <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Stamp Act (1765) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Townshend Duties (1767) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Olive Branch Petition (1775) <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">John Locke <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16px;">Thomas Paine