AP European History Spielvogel Chapter 19 annotated lecture notes
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Chapter 19 A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon The American Revolution Reorganization, Resistance, and Rebellion Britain?s victory in the Seven Years? War ? allowed them to raise and enforce old taxes onto colonists which obviously angered them 50% of adult male population can vote Indirect political representation in England colonists had no say in what was done to them. Pissed them off. ?No taxation without representation? Boston Tea Party ? colonists threw tea into the harbor to symbolize their want for less taxation War for Independence Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776 ? created an outcry for a revolution Declaration of Independence, 1776 July 4th and became an enlightened document that the French loved and used in their writings