Notes:BC1.L&C.Constitution Introduction

2014/07/02 User:Jeff

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

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