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Road to the American Revolution 1754-1783

Road to the American Revolution 1754-1783. Prof. Ruthie García Vera U S History. The French and Indian War. Albany Plan of Union. Proclamation of 1763. No Taxation Without Representation.

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Road to the American Revolution 1754-1783

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  1. Road to the American Revolution 1754-1783 Prof. Ruthie García Vera U S History

  2. The French and Indian War

  3. Albany Plan of Union

  4. Proclamation of 1763

  5. No TaxationWithoutRepresentation Sugar Act: taxes on imports of molasses and raw sugar (and silk, wine, coffee, pimento and indigo). (American Revenue Act of 1764)Currency Act: prohibited American colonist from issuing their own currency.Stamp Act: required stamps to be purchased and placed on newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, legal documents, and playing cards.Townshend Act: taxes on glass, lead, candles, paint, paper, and tea.

  6. Tar and Feathering American patriots used it to wage a war of intimidation against British tax collectors.

  7. Writs of Assistance “ An act against the Constitution is void; an act against natural equity is void. Taxation without representation is tyranny.” James Otis, Arguments Against the Writs of Assistance, 1761

  8. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

  9. The Gaspee Affair (1772) Providence, Rhode Island coast

  10. Virginia House of Burgueses and Thomas Jefferson Purpose warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Britain.  unified the colonies and shaped public opinion.  broaden the resistance movement. Committees of Correspondence

  11. British East India Company: • Monopoly on Englishtea imports. • Many members of EnglishParliament held shares. • Permitted the Company to sell tea directly to thecolonies without colonial middlemen (cheaper tea!) • Lord North expected the coloniesto choose the cheaper tea. Tea Act (1773)

  12. Boston Tea Party (1773) George Hewes, Samuel Adams and John Hancock took part in the raid.

  13. Boston Port Act • Massachusetts Government Act • New Quartering Act • Administration of Justice Act Lord North, prime minister of England The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774)

  14. The Quebec Act (1774)

  15. First Continental Congress (1774) Agenda How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act? 55 delegates from 12 colonies attended. 1 vote per colony represented.

  16. The Suffolk Resolves Declaration of Rights and Grievances The Massachusetts Provincial Congress – the minutemen militia

  17. “The British Are Coming . . .” Paul Revere&William Dawesmake their midnight ride to warn theMinutemenof approaching British soldiers.

  18. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

  19. The Second Continental Congress(1775)

  20. Continental Army George Washington Battle of Bunker Hill

  21. Was the American Revolution Inevitable? Loyalists (Tories) vs Patriots (Whigs)

  22. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

  23. The Olive Branch PetitionJohn Dickinson

  24. Declaration of Independence (1776)

  25. Preamble Explains why the Continental Congress drew up the Declaration. Natural Rights Declared the rights of people to life, liberty and property. List of Grievances Colonies complaints against the English and King George III. Resolution of Independence Declares the colonies free and independent states.

  26. Signers of the Declaration Mostmembers of the Congresssigned the documentonAugust 2, 1776

  27. The colonies had become the United States of America The American Revolutionhadbegun.

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