For anybody in APUSH

apathy
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:11:18 +0000

oh god. USH was a nightmare. but i’m kind of bored, so i’ll do this for fun, even though i’ve taken APUSH already.


1763, the Treaty of Paris and the Proclamation Act? Yes, it was a turning point. The colonists changed in the way they viewed the British government, and vice versa. At the same time, the British government, long having followed a policy of salutary neglect, began to impose themselves more on the colonists, taxing them and preventing them from settling out farther west. This began to polarize the colonists, leading eventually to the Rebellion.
Yep, Proclamation Act, Declaratory Act, even the Coercive Acts were not meant to be tyrannical. Coercive Acts were just to punish Massachusetts, and everything else was to help pay for the war and assert that Britain was the mother country.
Successes: Land Ordinances, (1785? I think?) winning the war. Failures: everything else. The government could create laws, but could not enforce them; it needed money, but could not tax states. Ultimately it was a filure.
Thomas Jefferson: Republican. believed in agricultural economy. government should belong to the common people. government should not interfere in events. did not want National Bank.


Alexander Hamilton: Federalist. believed in industrial economy. government should be mostly rich and affluent people. wanted/created National Bank.

In reality they were rather similar though; Thomas Jefferson moderated his philosophy once he became president, for example the Louisiana Purchase was done without the consent of his government, but obviously it was a good deal so he went for it. He also kept the National Bank, because it was working.

bleh. i’m done for now.