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The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776)

The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776). By Coach Wink with special credit due to Ms. Susan M. Pojer. Was the American Revolution Inevitable??. I.The Colonies w/in the Empire. A. Mercantilism-Closed Economic System? Why did the powers of Europe seek Empire? Based on two assumptions.

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The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776)

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  1. The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776) By Coach Wink with special credit due to Ms. Susan M. Pojer

  2. Was the American Revolution Inevitable??

  3. I.The Colonies w/in the Empire • A. Mercantilism-Closed Economic System? Why did the powers of Europe seek Empire? • Based on two assumptions. • Bullionism l

  4. I.Colonies w/in Empire • B. Navigation Laws: For the good of the Empire? • Board of Trade by 1696. • Privy Council • First Acts 1650: Hat Act, Iron Act, Woolen Cloth, Currency, Gin, Molasses Act 1733

  5. I. The Colonies w/in Empire • C. Colonies Thrived w/in system? • Agricultural Commodities • Shipbuilding: Critical to British Power • Trade-Triangular and otherwise • Colonial Cities • Ben Franklin: Paid Lobbyist

  6. II. The Great War for Empire(AKAThe French & Indian War) • 1754-1763: Why did it start? -Early: Braddock -William Pitt -Treat of Paris 1763 B. British Victory changes everything -Doubled the size of the British Debt! -Doubled British Territory

  7. French and Indian War Images • Albany Plan of Union • Plains of Abraham

  8. III. Changes in the Empire • A. British change view on how to run Colonial America to a more Rational Approach to Empire. -Early Br.-Col. Conflicts • Experience during war causes enmity • Writs of Assistance • Proclamation of 1763

  9. IV. New Imperial Policy • British believed that colonies should help to pay off the debt from the war that mostly benefitted the American Colonies. Colonists should also pay for their own defense. • Lord Grenville’s Dilemma?

  10. IV. New Imperial Policy • Problem? • Sugar Act 1764 Reaction? • Stamp Act 1765 Reaction?

  11. Reaction to Stamp Act • Constitutionally “No Taxation without Representation” Did the Colonists want representation in Parliament?? • Forceful Resistance Sam Adams Sons of Liberty Stamp Act Congress Boycott

  12. Reaction to the Stamp Act

  13. Stamp Act RepealedBritish still need revenue • Declaratory Act • Why? • Lesson for the Colonists? • Townshend Duties-Why did the British government think the colonists would react differently? • Colonial Reaction • Letters From A Farmer In Pennsylvania • John Dickinson

  14. Townshend Duties FailureDifference in concept of Representstion Deputy Representation Colonial Resistance Contiues Virtual Representation vs. Small Duty/Tax on Tea Remains

  15. Tar and Feathering

  16. Differring Points of View American Colonists British Government • Admiralty Courts • Troops quartered in NY • Suspension of NY Assembly • Taxation • John Wilkes • Troops moved to Boston in 1768 • Lessons learned

  17. Boston 1770Situation in BostonImpact of TroopsImpact of UnemploymentHMS Romney seizes LibertyChristopher Seider’s Murder

  18. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

  19. Boston Massacre Reality??

  20. The Gaspee Incident(1772) Providence, RI coast

  21. Committees of Correspondence Purpose warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br. broaden the resistance movement.

  22. Tea Act (1773) • British East India Co.: • Monopoly on Br. tea imports. • Many members of Parl. held shares. • Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!) • North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

  23. Boston Tea Party (1773)

  24. The Coercive or IntolerableActs (1774) 1. Port Bill 2. Government Act 3. New Quartering Act Lord North 4. Administration of Justice Act

  25. The Quebec Act (1774)

  26. Boston Canonaded

  27. What is happening in this Cartoon? Quarter it.

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

  29. The British Are Coming . . . Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

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

  31. The Second Continental Congress(1775) Olive Branch Petition

  32. Was the American Revolution Inevitable??

  33. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

  34. Declaration of Independence (1776)

  35. Declaration of Independence

  36. Independence Hall

  37. New National Symbols

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