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A Long Train of ABUSES & USURPATIONS

A Long Train of ABUSES & USURPATIONS. The Causes of the American Revolution. USHC 1.2. Analyze… the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

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A Long Train of ABUSES & USURPATIONS

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  1. A Long Train of ABUSES& USURPATIONS The Causes of the American Revolution

  2. USHC 1.2 Analyze… the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

  3. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and... that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…

  4. Salutary Neglect

  5. 1754-63 The French and Indian War

  6. WarsCostMoney

  7. British National Debt Following the French and Indian War

  8. Cost of QuarteringTroops in the colonies

  9. Salutary Neglect NO MORE

  10. ProclamationLine of 1763

  11. Parliament Taxes the Colonies • Sugar Act (1764) • Stamp Act (1765) • Townshend Acts (1767)

  12. Smuggling A Serious Problem Photo Credit: Mary Harrsch

  13. The Sugar Act 1764 IMPORT Tax on Foreign Sugar ADMIRALTY COURTS Jury Trials

  14. The Stamp Act 1765 INTERNAL Tax on legal documents MASS RESISTANCE Boycotts Mob Violence

  15. NOTAXATIONWITHOUT REPRESENTATION

  16. Taxing Authority HERE HERE NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament, where their representatives could have been outnumbered. They believed that only their representatives in their own colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.

  17. Sons of Liberty Resistance Movement(s) Intimidation Mass Protests

  18. Daughters of Liberty Homespun Fabric Reduced dependence on British textiles

  19. The Stamp Act 1765 INTERNAL Tax on legal documents REPEALED MASS RESISTANCE Boycotts Mob Violence

  20. Parliament’s NotDone

  21. Townshend Acts 1767 Tax on Imports

  22. These Guys Again

  23. More of These Guys

  24. Confrontation between British Troops and a Rowdy Mob Boston Massacre 1770

  25. NOT GUILTY

  26. Townshend Acts With one exception... 1767 Tax on Imports REPEALED

  27. Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that we can’t!

  28. The Coast is Clear? Photo Credit: Wendell

  29. The Chain of Events • Tea Act • Boston Tea Party • Intolerable Acts • Lexington & Concord Leading to the Revolution Photo Credit: Darwin Bell

  30. ParliamentGrants aMonopolyto a BritishCompany The Tea Act 1773 Photo Credit: John-Morgan

  31. Boston Tea Party 1773

  32. Intolerable Acts 1774 MARTIAL LAW

  33. Intolerable Acts 1774 Boston Port Act Massachusetts Government Act Quartering Act Administration of Justice Act Quebec Act

  34. The Minuteman Photo Credit : Jeanette Runyon

  35. The Minuteman Photo Credit: Rachel Ford James

  36. Lexington & Concord 1775 OBJECTIVE: Seize the Arsenal

  37. THE SHOT heard ‘round the world Artist: Don Troiani Image Courtesy of The National Guard

  38. The Old North Bridge Photo credit: herzogbr

  39. Lexington & Concord 1775 The British Retreat

  40. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies...The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

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