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Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War

What is salutary neglect? How is it going to come back to “bite” the British?. Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War. Presentation Option:. French- Indian War Began July 3, 1754 Between England and France for control over land in North America Lasted 7 years

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Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War

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  1. What is salutary neglect? How is it going to come back to “bite” the British? Events Leading to the American Revolutionary War

  2. Presentation Option: • French- Indian War • Began July 3, 1754 • Between England and France for control over land in North America • Lasted 7 years • Cost England a lot of money

  3. Presentation Option: • Proclamation of 1763 • King George III of England • No colonists may settle west of the Appalachian Mountains • Indian Territory • If colonists already lived there, they must move!

  4. Presentation Option: • Sugar Act (Molasses Act) • King George needed to pay for wars with French and Native Americans • Make colonists pay! • 1764 taxed sugar and wine • Colonists angry! • Boycott • Colonists made their own

  5. Presentation Option: • Stamp Act • 1765 tax on anything written on paper • a special stamp had to be placed on these papers to show they had been purchased • Colonists boycotted British Goods • King George repealed this tax 1766

  6. Stamps

  7. Presentation Option: V. Townshend Acts a. 1767 tax on glass, paint, paper and tea b. Colonists reacted: 1. boycott English goods 2. Group protests 3. Secret meetings- taxation without representation-colonists had no choice in taxes!

  8. Presentation Option: • Boston Massacre • 1770 • Started with colonists calling British soldiers names • British soldiers fired on crowd • 5 dead • Crispus Attucks- 1st African American to die for liberty

  9. Presentation Option: • Tea Act • 1773- tax on tea • Colonists reacted: • Boycott English tea • Boston Tea Party- Led by Samuel Adams- a group of men dressed as Native Americans boarded an English ship and dumped 342 boxes of tea into Boston Harbor!

  10. Presentation Option: • Intolerable Acts (Quartering Acts) • 1774- Punishment for the Boston Tea Party • Any British soldier that came to your door could move into your home • Boston Harbor was closed until damage was paid for • All town meetings were now controlled by British

  11. Colonist Reaction to Taxation • First Continental Congress • 1. 1774 one colonist from each of 12 colonies met in Philadelphia • 2. Wrote to King George to end Taxation Without Representation • 3. Boycotted all English goods

  12. b. Minutemen 1. Massachusetts colony 2. Ready to fight a minute’s notice 3. Volunteer farmers, fishermen, tradesmen a. Paul Revere 4. Located in Concord, Massachusetts

  13. c. Sons of Liberty- patriots 1. Formed to stop collection of taxes 2. Many were printers a. Boston Gazette 1. Benjamin Edes and John Gill 3. Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock

  14. Battles of Lexington and Concord • British marched to Lexington to capture Sam Adams and John Hancock (Sons of Liberty leaders) • British marched to Concord to capture minutemen weapons • Paul Revere road the countryside warning minutemen of the British secret mission • Lexington- “Shot Heard Round the World”

  15. Colonists reaction to Lexington and Concord • Second Continental Congress- met in Philadelphia again to create a more organized colonial government • George Washington, Ben Franklin, John Hancock, Sam Adams, Thomas Jefferson • Continental Army- George Washington- commander

  16. Presentation Options: Sugar Act (Molasses Act) French- Indian War Intolerable Acts (Quartering Acts) Proclamation of 1763 Boston Massacre Townshend Acts Tea Act Stamp Act

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