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Effect: Overthrow of Roman

Catholic power.

2. Policy of Mary Tudor.

Effect: Overthrow of Protestantism.

3. Reaction by Lords of the Council.

Effect: Elizabeth crowned. III. GROWTH OF NATIONAL PRIDE AND POWER.

1. Elizabeth's policy with factions. Effect: Unity in State.

2. Encouragement of art and literature.

Effect: "Elizabethan Age." 3. Colonization in Ireland and America.

Effect: English Protestant settlements.

4. Spain's policy and Spanish Armada.

Effect: England's defiance. § 6. Essentials in the Stuart Period. 1603-1714. Constitutional struggle between King and Commons.

I. DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS VERSUS PARLIAMENT.

1. Attempt to establish control of

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1. Re-establishment of ancient civil polity.

Effect: Temporary union of
English people.

2. Foreign policy.

Effect: Triple Alliance versus
French subsidy.

3. Declaration of Indulgence. Effect: Oath of Supremacy; Test Act.

4. Legislation for the "subject." Effect: Habeas Corpus Act,

1679.

5. Agitation of Exclusion Bill. Effect: Monmouth party.

6. James II.'s policy.

Effect: Monmouth rebellion. 7. "Dispensing power."

Effect: Growing tyranny. 8. Importance of "Succession " Effect: William of Orange invited to England.

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Effect: Treaty of Utrecht affects England in the Old World and the New World.

8. Fall of Marlborough.

Effect: Tory power arises for time being.

§ 7. Essentials in the Hanoverian Period. — 1714-1815.

I. WHIG SUPREMACY.

1. Influence of Act of Settlement.
Effect: George I. crowned king.
2. Policy of the Walpole ministry.
Effect: Reign of peace.
3. Development of economics.
Effect: Difficulties arising in
the legislation of reforms.

4. Foreign policy.

Effect: England's share in the War of the Austrian Succession.

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APPENDIX B

ESSENTIALS IN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONAL

HISTORY

This analysis of American history is especially designed to be a background for the study of the documents printed above. The titles appear in italics.

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1. Search for a western passage to Asia.

Effect: Discovery of America.

2. Claims of Spain.

Effect: Spanish settlements in the South.

3. Claims of England.

Effect: Virginia and the Atlantic seacoast.

4. Claims of France.

Effect: Settlements in the
North; Louisiana.

5. Minor claims.

Effect: Dutch and Swedish settlements.

6. Growing power in New France
and New England.

Effect: French and Indian
Wars.

§ 2. Essentials in the Growth of Government in English Colonies. - 1607-1643.

1. James I.'s policy in granting royal charters.

Effect: London and Plymouth companies.

2. Influence of the principle of local self-government. Effect: House of Burgesses, 1619, under Virginia charter; independence of gov

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Effect: Colonies share in the
Seven Years' War.

5. Fall of Quebec.

Effect: French excluded from the Continent by Peace of Paris, 1763.

§ 4. Essentials in the Revolution. 1763-1783.

I. DISCONTENT WITH ROYAL GOVERNMENT. -1763-1775.

1. Restrictions on commerce and manufactures.

Effect: Revolt against Navigation Acts by smuggling. 2. Writs of assistance and Stamp Act.

Effect: Stamp Act; Congress demands redress, 1765. 3. Repeal of Stamp Act; Declaratory Act; Townshend Act; Tea Tax. Effect: Principles of taxation without representation" invoked; Boston TeaParty.

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4. Aggressive acts of standing

army.

Effect: Boston Massacre.

5. Preliminaries of the Revolution. Effres Committees of Correspondence; Committees

of Safety.

6. The four intolerable acts.

Effect: (1) First Continental

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1. State sovereignty develops conflicting interests and opinions. Effect: Three great compromises of the Constitutional Convention.

2. Final struggle between Articles of Confederation and Constitution of United States, 1787-1790.

Effect: Ratification.

§ 6. Essentials in the Development of National Feeling. 1790-1825.

1. Hamilton's financial policy versus Jefferson's opposition. Effect: Federalism; Republicanism.

2. Maintenance of domestic order. Effect: Suppression of Whiskey Rebellion.

3. Jay's Treaty and its effect upon France.

Effect: American policy towards foreign nations influenced by Washington's Farewell Address, 1797.

4. Alien and Sedition Acts.

Effect: Fall of Federal Party. 5. Power of Democratic-Republicanism.

Effect: International relations (Louisiana, Tripoli, “Chesapeake").

6. Question of neutral rights with France and England.

Effect: War of 1812.

7. Rapid settlement of the West. Effect: New States.

8 Growing demand for nationalization.

Effect: Supreme Court decisions upon bank (McCulloch v. Maryland), States, etc.

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§ 7. Essentials in the Growth of Sectional Feeling.

1. Slavery.

Effect: Development of doctrine of State rights; Missouri Compromise.

2. Divergence of interests in the

sections.

Effect: Rapid growth of North and South.

3. Tariff question.

Effect: Yielding of the principle of protection.

4. Question of nullification. Effect: Jackson's attitude. 5. Mexican War.

Effect: Acquisition of Texas and California.

6. Repeal of Missouri Compromise. Effect: Growth of antislavery sentiment.

7. Efforts of South for more slave
territory.

Effect: Compromises of 1850;
Cuban question.

8. The Dred Scott Case. 1857.
Effect: Party feeling.

9. Campaign of 1860.

Effect: Secession and formation of the Confederate States of America.

§ 8. Essentials in the War of the Rebellion. - 1861-1865.

1. Firing on Fort Sumter.

Effect: Arousal of North to the defence of the Union. 2. Fears of foreign intervention. Effect: The Trent affair; Seward's diplomacy; invasion of Mexico by Napoleon III.

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