what's going down a push today we're going to take a look at period three from 1754 to 1800 we're going to knock this out real quick it's going to be a real surface kind of overview make sure you study but this will kind of get you on the right track first thing to keep in mind some big ideas for you one England is going to attempt to reassert control over the colonies following the French and Indian War which begins in 1754 which is why period 3 starts with 1754 we're going to take a look at that in a moment the colonies are going to react to this attempt to control them they're eventually after a lot of debate going to declare their independence and then after a lot of fighting they're going to become a new nation America third point is there are going to be disagreements over the social political and economic identity of the young United States so we're going to take a look at each one of these really quickly starting with the first important point england is going to attempt to put the colonies in check following a long period of solitary neglect rewind for a second 1754 prior to that you have the French and the Greens New Spain in the kind of purplish color and the 13 colonies had all been established and prior to 17 63 they're going to be accustomed to solitary neglect meaning the British are going to largely leave them alone and not because they're not interested in the colonies but they're involved in internal problems and and foreign problems and 1763 marks a turning point in their relationship where basically the French and Indian War the Seven Years War comes to an end and England is going to kind of end that period of solitary neglect that period of reduced intervention in colonial affairs now the reason why they're going to end it in 1763 after the 7 years war is because England emerges from the war with massive debt they're broke having defended the colonies who went into the Ohio Valley and sparked this big old war in North America with their French rivals now what's going to happen is 1763 solitary neglect comes to an end and they're going to initiate all sorts of policies one they're going to enforce some of those old merkantile laws such as the Navigation Act they're going to put the proclamation of 1763 in place to keep the colonies from going into the frontier out west where they'll come into contact with Native Americans remember Pontiac's Rebellion they're going to have a bunch of taxes such as the Sugar and the Stamp Act they're going to require that the colonist allow British soldiers to enter into their homes because the British are feeling hey we're defending you and so you get the Quartering Act you get the Townen Acts the Tea Act the Intolerable Acts and the Quebec Act you can take a look at all of those but they all kind of show England trying to enforce economic political restrictions and control on the colonies now of course the colonies are going to respond in a variety of ways and you have things like the Stamp Act Congress where the colonies are meeting and organizing and really trying to figure out how to proceed you have the committee of correspondents where they're starting to communicate with one another groups such as the Sons of Liberty and eventually the Continental Congress which forms prior to the battles of Lexington and Conquered and comes back and forms again with the second Continental Congress so make sure you understand the kind of cause and effect between the British policies and the colony's reactions during this period now some stuff that you need to keep in mind is this is a slow movement to the American Revolution these colonies are not rapidly you know wrapping themselves up in American flags and saying "We're America let's do this." Um and there's a couple of factors in this kind of point that you need to keep in mind they're being inspired by enlightenment enlightenment ideas that are coming over from Europe uh people like Lach and Rouso the colonial elites are going to especially during the Stamp Act crisis organize people people like John Hancock and others with wealth and then you get the role of the kind of the grassroots movements the ordinary colonists calling for independence and it's a slow process because this is a big deal they're used to England now when they eventually do declare independence you know you get the influence of Thomas Payne's Common Sense and Jefferson's Declaration of Independence they're going to have some reasons why they eventually win one the colonies have homefield advantage they know the land england has to supply their stuff from long distances eventually the French following the Battle of Saratoga are going to help us out and we got some pretty awesome leaders like George Washington and others finally during the American Revolution we are going to be creating new government structures and they're going to be based upon enlightenment principles things like natural rights the consent of the govern restrictions on government uh power and they're going to be also really influenced by the fear of replacing the strong British power centralized power in the monarch in the parliament and so they're going to put severe restrictions on government so make sure you know that now some social and polit political impacts of the American Revolution one it's not a very radical revolution because the colonial elite are going to be the people who are still in charge when the whole thing's said and done this is not going to lead to some radical transformation of wealth it is not a radical revolution but some states are going to eliminate property requirements for voting so new people are going to be engaged in the political process these people are are going to be though white men um it's going to have some international consequences the French Revolution will happen in 1789 revolutions throughout Latin America will take place throughout the 19th century and in the early 1800s haiti will experience their revolution all of these revolutions are going to be influenced by what happened during the American Revolution women are going to have some impacts during this period um you have this idea of republican motherhood this idea that women are meant to raise good citizens that they will be civic-minded uh and they will be involved in the new republic's affairs and we're talking the young boys here abigail Adams for instance during the American Revolution reminded her husband John remember the ladies um and unfortunately for women they are going to suffer a lack of political rights uh in the political process throughout much of this period post American Revolution for African-Americans there is going to be gradual emancipation especially in the north um northern and middle states are going to slowly end uh slavery not because they're nicer up there but just because it wasn't economically uh viable for instance you have the Pennsylvania gradual emancipation law however as slavery is being kind of slowly abolished in some parts of the country in other parts the south and into the west slavery is going to be protected under the new constitution and many people consider the constitution a pro-slavery document and then finally for native Americans life is going to get rough because under the treaty of Paris in 1783 there are no protections from them no one consults them we'll look at what happens with native people in a moment some other things to keep in mind as the nation is fighting the American Revolution and eventually winning it they're going to create new government structures and I've kind of mentioned this but the Enlightenment plays a huge role people like Lach and this idea of the consent of the govern natural inalienable rights Rouso Jefferson's going to be influenced by these ideas and of course the profound impact of Thomas Payne's common sense in January of 1776 it's going to have a huge impact on the minds of the colonial people um key thing that happens is you're going to have the creation of a weak national government uh this is under the Articles of Confederation make sure you know the challenges and successes of the articles there are more challenges than there are successes and finally the Articles of Confederation will eventually be replaced by the Constitution and it's important that you know the compromises that were needed to create and eventually ratify the Constitution speaking of those there were some constitutional issues most of them dealt with representation at first you had the Virginia plan which was the large state plan the more people you have the more reps you would get and obviously Virginia the most populated state loved that plan there was also the New Jersey plan or also known as the small states plan basically everyone would have equal representation which is what the Articles of Confederation had um and eventually after a lot of debate the great compromise was agreed upon also called the Connecticut compromise where we have a biccameal legislator the house of reps based upon population the senate everyone gets equal reps which is two the three-fifths compromise is important make sure you know about that and it deals with southerners wanted their wanting their slaves to be counted for representation purposes so for every five slaves three would be counted in terms of representation and this gives southerners a huge amount of power uh as a result so the three-fifths compromise is important and know that the constitution was created with severe limits on federal power you had separation in powers you know the legislative the executive and the judicial they have different powers there's checks and balances it's a federalist system you have a federal government and a state government sharing power so you have federalism and it's all based upon this idea of republicanism representative government so those are some of the constitutional issues you should be aware of and keep in mind the articles of confederation had this as their framework for government it was a very weak federal government and then in 1789 the constitution comes along and it does expand dramatically even though there are restrictions on the power of the federal government even under the constitution it expands that power of the federal government a great deal adds a president to house legislator the power of tax and regulate trade it gives a court you only need three force to make an amendment um and so these are some of the changes key thing how or why was the Constitution ratified not everyone agreed with it when they were all done at the constitutional convention you had the Federalist who were saying "Yep let's do this." You had the Federalist Papers a series of essays that talked about the Constitution and why it was needed why it should be ratified but on the other side you had the anti-federalists and these were people who felt that this new government was too powerful and should not be ratified and of course there was a big debate but eventually the anti-federalists agree we will ratify if you promise to include a bill of rights and that does get added to the constitution some other things to keep keep in mind she's rebellion is always an important thing sha's rea rebellion happens during the articles of confederation the government under the articles is too weak to really put it down it has to be put down by a private militia to contrast that with whiskey rebellion in which under the Articles of Confederation the rebellion over taxes in western Pennsylvania is crushed by a very powerful federal government under the Constitution so it's always good to know the kind of differences and similarities between these two rebellions in the back country of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania important point disagreements are going to develop over the new nation's political economic and social identity people are not going to agree what this young nation should look like and really the domestic disagreements revolve around the Secretary of the Treasury's financial program Alexander Hamilton and you have the assumption plan where the federal government is going to be taking the state debt the excise taxes the high tariffs and the big one the bank the bank is going to create all sorts of issues and constitutionally there is disagreements about whether or not the government can do it or not hamilton is doing these programs because he favors a strong central government he is a federalist he favors developing the nation's economy and particularly manufacturing and they believe in a loose interpretation of the Constitution on the other side is Jefferson and his homeboys the Democratic Republicans who are going to reject Hamilton's plan they're going to accept some things after compromise but they favor a weak central government they are going to favor agriculture and they believe in a strict interpretation of the constitution meaning only if it's in there can the government do it so these disagreements reveal the growth of political parties in fact federal versus state government can best be seen in the alien and sedition acts which is passed during the administration of John Adams by a federalist controlled congress and these basically especially the sedition acts create all sorts of controversy you have the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and basically in that they say they the states of Kentucky and Virginia have the right of nullification they the states can ignore a federal law in this case the sedition acts if they feel it's unconstitutional and this battle between federal and state will continue throughout American history some foreign disagreements to keep in mind for period 3 you're going to have the French Revolution in 1789 france goes to war with Europe there's all sorts of concerns in America about whether or not we should support this French Revolution and Washington decides the young nation should stay the heck out of Europeans uh war and he issues the proclamation of neutrality you have citizen Jana who comes over to the United States and tries to challenge that neutrality he is eventually kind of scolded you have the XYZ affair under John Adams where we try to negotiate and this leads to a international incident and then the quasi war happens where you have a war between the United States and France an impressment taking place and eventually the convention of 1800 ending the Franco-American alliance that had been around since 1778 you also have drama with England the Treaty of Paris which ended the American Revolution did not end our problem with them they had forts on American soil they were giving guns to Native Americans there was impressment of American sailors and ships and all of this kind of eventually tries to get resolved by Jay's treaty but it doesn't really work and you have a lot of anger especially amongst Democratic Republicans over Jay's treaty you have drama with Spain they had closed off the Mississippi River under the Articles of Confederation they had actually questioned the boundaries between the US and Florida and eventually some of that gets solved with Pikney's treaty and make sure you know about Washington's farewell address where he says stay the heck out of permanent alliances and political parties suck these kind of issues not only are they challenges for the young nations but they cause further divisions between the Democratic Republicans who tended to favor France and the Federalists who tended to favor England of course this period 3 ends with 1800 which is a significant year in American history because it is the election of 1800 the Democratic repart Republican party wins thomas Jefferson becomes president and it is significant and sometimes referred to as the revolution of 1800 because it is the first peaceful transfer of power between political parties now something we left off but really important throughout all this stuff something that was not peaceful unfortunately is Native Americans are going to play a key role and they are going to respond to European and American settlements in a variety of ways for instance during the French and Indian War largely the native people are going to join the French and largely be on the side of the French the English and the colonies are going to try under the Albany plan to get the arkquay to support them ultimately they will but the French are going to be defeated causing all sorts of problems in fact following the French defeat they've lost an important ally in North America you have Pontiac's rebellion where Pontiac and other natives start rebelling uh trying to keep out settlers from their land which leads to the British passing the proclamation of 1763 during the American Revolution many native people sided with the British once again hoping to keep the colonist out of their land ultimately that decision backfires because at the Treaty of Paris the United States boundaries are from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River no one asks the native people living in those areas are they cool with that um during this period of time you also have in 1783 1785 a man by the name of Chief Little Turtle forming the western Confederacy and he is going to lead resistance in the old northwest against American expansion uh and of course unfortunately the battle of fallen timbers the native resistance in the old west is going to be crushed and the treaty of Grenville is going to mark the end of native resistance in that region and meanwhile over on the big old west coast Spanish missionaries are creeping up the coast of California forming these missions converting the native people to Catholicism so native history is an important component of period 3 a push finally we're almost done keep in mind during this time we have the expansion of the United States eventually remember the Northwest Ordinances those things that were really successful under the Articles of Confederation the United States is expanding its territory and they ban slavery and they allow public education in those regions however slavery even though it ends in the north in the middle states following the American Revolution slowly it is going to continue to expand it's going to be protected under the Constitution the slave trade is going to continue for another 20 years and slavery is going to continue to be a fact of life throughout the South and as they move west and of course as the nation grows just as the colonies were different because of unique geographic environmental factors the regional identities are going to continue and they're going to be strengthened between the northern states the southern states and the western states and we're going to see this play out in a push period 4 and five woo we finished finally a push period 3 that's a quick rundown make sure you read your book check out my other videos subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so click like on the video tell all the a push homies out in the world to check out Jo Productions and most importantly always stand up for what you believe in you never know you may end up in a school textbook one day like my crazy self peace