Born This Day:

SEPTEMBER 13 - Roald Dahl 1916

- British Author
• 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a
- Tyler Perry 1969
triumph for his victories over the Sabines
- American actor/director
• 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's
- Thomas Mueller 1989
Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September
- German Footballer
• 1501 – Michelangelo begins work on The David
• 1598 – Philip III crowned King of Portugal and Spain Died This Day:
• 1609 – Henry Hudson reaches the Hudson River - Titus 81 AD
- Roman Emperor
• 1899 – First recorded fatality by automobile recorded in the US
- Tupac 1996
• 1933 – A woman is elected to the parliament of New Zealand for the
- Moses Malone 2015
first time
- US Basketball Player
• 1985 – Super Mario Brothers released in Japan
• 1993 – Oslo accords are signed
Briefly discuss how Bacon’s Rebellion can be viewed as a
precursor to the American Revolution.
▪ In1686, King James II, increased royal control over the region by combining the
New England colonies, New York, and New Jersey into the Dominion of New
England.
▪ Appointed Sir Edmund Andros as governor of this newly created dominion. To the chagrin
of colonists, he levied taxes, limited town meetings, and revoked land titles.
▪ As tensions developed, King James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution of
1688.
▪ William and Mary, the new monarchs, brought the Dominion of New England to an end.
▪ While the grip of imperial control loosened, friction over the regulation of trade
continued to simmer
▪ British attempts to assert tighter control
over its North American colonies clashed
with the colonial desire to promote self
governance
▪ This clash certainly helped lead to the
Revolutionary War
▪ Competition among the British, French, and
Native Americans in North America
culminated in the Seven Years’ War
▪ Colonies get wrapped up in this conflict as
an extension of the war
▪ Colonists will be settled with tax increases
after conflict to pay for the war
▪ The desire of many colonists to assert ideals of self governance led to a
growing independence movement
▪ Especially after the British government attempted to increase colonial control
after 1750s
▪ Remember, desire to strictly control the colonies comes in waves.
▪ Sometimes colonial control is relaxed, other times it is strict. Typically depends on
other colonial or European developments
▪ Early independence supporters got their ideas from the Enlightenment,
but were forced to live alongside royalists for decades
▪ British taxes on colonists made many colonists furious
▪ Stamp Act and Sugar Act
▪ The democratic ideals found in the American Revolution helped
inspire new experiments in democracy
▪ Democratic self governance with three branches of government.
▪ Guaranteed protections for citizens
▪ Separation of church and state
▪ Bill of Rights
▪ These new ideas concerning politics, religion, and society reflect
long historical trends across the 18th century
▪ These ideals are largely centered in the Enlightenment, but it is
important to remember religion’s continued importance in shaping
the United States
▪ New constitutions were made that
articulated:
▪ The rights of man
▪ The role of the state and federal
governments
▪ An attempted balance between protecting
individual rights, balancing centralized
control, and excessive popular influence.
▪ These ideas are articulated in three
founding documents:
▪ The Declaration of Independence (1776)
▪ Articles of Confederation (1781)
▪ The Constitution (1787)
▪ New forms of national culture and political
institutions developed in the United states
▪ Ideas of “patriotism” “representative
governance” and “Enlightenment” act as
foundations for building identities of a national
culture
▪ However, regional agendas, societies, and
economic systems produced various issues
both inside regions and between them.
▪ Migration within North America and competition over resources,
territorial boundaries, and trade access intensifies conflict
▪ In the decades after American independence, interactions among
different groups led to cultural blending and sometimes competition
▪ Interactions between regions in the United States
▪ Interactions with Natives
▪ Interactions with other European powers
▪ Since Europeans still occupied the vast majority of North America, the
United States had to find ways to safeguard their newfound
independence