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The Road to the American Revolution : 1763 -- 1776 ( Unit I , Segment 4 of 5 )

The Road to the American Revolution : 1763 -- 1776 ( Unit I , Segment 4 of 5 ). Essential Question : How did England ’ s changing policy towards its colonies lead to rising calls for independence? Warm -Up Question :

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The Road to the American Revolution : 1763 -- 1776 ( Unit I , Segment 4 of 5 )

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  1. The Road to the American Revolution: 1763 -- 1776 (Unit I,Segment 4 of 5)

  2. Essential Question: • How did England’s changing policy towards its colonies lead to rising calls for independence? • Warm-Up Question: • How did the French & Indian War change the way Britain ruled the American colonies? • Was this change in governing appropriate? Explain from the point of view of Britain & colonists

  3. The Road to the American Revolution

  4. The Road to Revolution (1763 - 1776) • The end of the French & Indian War (1763), marked the start of the road towards the American Revolution: • 1763: Beginning of parliamentary sovereignty & Proclamation Line • 1765-67: Stamp & Townshend Acts • 1773-75: Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington & Concord • 1776: Declaration of Independence

  5. The “Sons of Liberty” & “Daughters of Liberty” were formed to protest British restrictions & became the leaders of colonial resistance Mob reaction to the Stamp Act The colonial boycotts were effective& Britain repealed the Stamp Act For the 1st time, many colonists refer to fellow boycotters as “patriots”

  6. More boycotts / sometimes violent

  7. Colonists created committees of correspondenceto communicate with each other

  8. Colonists injured British soldiers by throwing snowballs & oyster shells With only 5 dead, this was hardly a “massacre” but it reveals the power of colonial propaganda Paul Revere’s etching of the Boston Massacre became an American best-seller

  9. First Continental Congress “We have to help Boston”

  10. First Continental Congress • The colonies are “in a state of Rebellion” • General Gage -- “reassert royal control”

  11. Lexington & Concord

  12. Lexington & Concord • “Stand your ground! Don’t fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war, let it begin here!” -- Colonial Captain Jonas Parker • “twas the “Shot heard round the world”

  13. The Enlightenment • Colonists used the ideas of the Enlightenment to justify their protest • John Locke wrote that people have natural rights (life, liberty, & property) & should oppose tyranny • Rousseau believed that citizens have a social contract with their gov’t • Montesquieu argued that power should not be in the hands of a king, but separated among gov’tbranches

  14. Conclusions • By December 1775, the British & American colonists were fighting an “informal revolutionary war”…but: • Colonial leaders had not yet declared independence • In 1776, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense convinced many neutralcolonists to support independence from Britain • By July 1776, colonists drafted the Declaration of Independence

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