Notes:BC1.L&C.Constitution Introduction
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Timeline
- 1763 British won war with France
- taxed and regulated colonies more than before
- Declared independence in 1776
- War of Independence resulted in England recognizing American independence with the Treaty of Paris in 1783
- 1787 wrote a new constitution
- March 1789 the constitution went into effect
The causes of America
- The material cause: The enormous blessing of a great expanse of new land and the people that built a civilization in the wilderness and all the rest.
- The efficient cause: the founders
- The formal cause of the United States (the form): The Constitution
- The final cause: The principles in the Declaration of Independence
