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 1. Re-establishment of ancient civil polity. Effect: Temporary union of 2. Foreign policy. Effect: Triple Alliance versus 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. ance. 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. 4. Foreign policy. Effect: England's share in the War of the Austrian Succession. 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. 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 5. Minor claims. Effect: Dutch and Swedish settlements. 6. Growing power in New France Effect: French and Indian § 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 Effect: Colonies share in the 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. 66 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 Effect: Constitutional Con- 9. Our policy towards the Amer 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. § 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 Effect: Compromises of 1850; 8. The Dred Scott Case. 1857. 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. |