TTC【双语字幕版】：西方文明的基础（S02E18：美国独立战争）
2022-04-17 04:46 作者:HydratailNoctua | 我要投稿
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The situation before and during the Seven Year War
Salutary Neglect
- Native Americans, indigenous sovereignty vs. the colonists
- French Canadians, The Quebec Act 1774; the French way vs. the British way
- The British Colonists, separate and diverse colonies of various ethnicity with no collective consciousness (the dominion of New England)
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The situation after the Seven Year War
It was time for the American colonists should pay their own protection.
- Stamp Act 1765
- The Boston Tea Party
- Coercive Acts 1774
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American revolutionary War in 1775
It was an English revolution on another perspective, fought by Englishman from two continents who were somewhat different in their cultures.
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Treaty of Paris 1783
The American revolution didn't upset the previous balance of power in Europe. Nevertheless, it showed that the Enlightenment ideas can be put into practice.
The formation of the republic, 1787 (influenced by Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire and Rousseau)
