From the university describes the conflicts and relationships between the new federal government, settlers and native americans. Good morning, everybody. Weve been talking for the last couple of weeks in this class about the effects of the American Revolution and kind of framing that discussion around the question of how revolutionary was the American Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Wide should we think of the revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talk about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in our revolution, and on the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery, we saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institutional slavery on the path to destruction in the nor
About the preamble of the declaration of independence. He views each line and explores what the Founding Fathers may have intended by their word choices. Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class weve been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american wig patriots and that debate has in many ways come down to one issue which is broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies. And more specifically even, the real question is what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislatures. And over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the Britain Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764 it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and then in 176768, the townsend act a
Revolution . What kinds of changes did it initiate in american society, american law, American Government . Why should we think of the American Revolution as a revolution rather than simply a war for independence . So, we talked about weve talked about this in various frameworks. We talked about whether the revolution altered the social structure of the states that were involved in revolution. On the last time we met, we talked about the impact of the revolution on africanamericans and on the institution of slavery. We saw that in that case the legacy was quite mixed, right . The revolution set the institution of slavery on the path to destruction in the northern states but was instrumental in kind of deepening and strengthening the institution in the southern states. Today i want to talk about two topics that were closely interrelated and that are really two sides of the same coin. I want to talk today about how the revolution affected native americans and how the revolution created a
Examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is, weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american wig patriots. That debate has really in many ways come down to one issue, which is, broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies . More specifically even, the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . Over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764, it began with the sugar act. A year later, the stamp act. Then in 1767, the towns and acts. Then the tea act and then the coercive act. In 1775, the prohibit tory act. But standing behind all of these acts of british legislation was one overarching piece of legislation, which i think was the driving force behind all of these part
Because of that, its a particularly good point in this course to talk about a big issue that goes throughout the civil war that we need to look at a e antebellum. The question is the United States constitution. One thing historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war area, a basic question is to what degree did the constitution shape the civil war area . What to what degree did it make political actors do certain things . Constrain them. Or guide their actions. On the flip side to what degree did the civil war era shape the constitution . Some of this is very clear in the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. Changed the constitution. Also different views of the constitution. One of the things that people have looked at in looking back at the u. S. Constitution during the civil war era is how president s have interacted with the constitution. Have they followed it . Have they tried to defend it . Have they abridged the constitution . This shapes how many