HIST 2112- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 36 pages long!)
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Resistance to centralized authority tied disparate colonies ever closer together under new governments. The revolution created politicians eager to foster republican selflessness and protect the public good but also encouraged individual self- interest and personal gain. The founding fathers instigated and fought a revolution to secure independence from britain, but they did not fight that revolution to create a. Britain had largely failed to define the colonies" relationship to the empire and institute a coherent program of imperial reform. First, britain was at war from the war of the spanish succession at the start of the century through the seven years" war in 1763. Constant war was politically consuming and economically expensive. In this same period, the colonies developed their own local political institutions. Many colonists came to see their assemblies as having the same jurisdiction over them that parliament exercised over those in england. They interpreted british inaction as justifying their tradition of local governance.
