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The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776). Was the American Revolution Inevitable??. Tar and Feathering. The Boston Massacre ( March 5,1770 ). Committees of Correspondence. Purpose warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br. broaden the resistance movement.
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The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776)
Was the American Revolution Inevitable??
Committees of Correspondence Purpose warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br. broaden the resistance movement.
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.
The Coercive or IntolerableActs (1774) 1. Port Bill 2. Government Act 3. New Quartering Act Lord North 4. Administration of Justice Act
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.
The British Are Coming . . . Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.
The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775
The Second Continental Congress(1775) Olive Branch Petition
Was the American Revolution Inevitable??
It was ridiculous for an island to rule a continent. • America was not a "British nation"; it was composed of influences and peoples from all of Europe, • Even if Britain was the "mother country" of America, that made her actions all the more horrendous, for no mother would harm her children so brutally. • Being a part of Britain would drag America into unnecessary European wars, and keep it from the international commerce at which America excelled. • The distance between the two nations made the governing the colonies from England unwieldy. If some wrong were to be petitioned to Parliament, it would take a year before the colonies received a response.
The New World was discovered shortly after the Reformation. The Puritans believed that God wanted to give them a safe haven from the persecution of British rule. • Britain ruled the colonies for its own benefit, and did not consider the best interests of the colonists in governing them. • Less-quoted sections of the pamphlet include Paine's over-optimistic view of America's military potential at the time of the Revolution. For example, he spends pages describing how colonial shipyards, by using the large amounts of lumber available in the country, could quickly create a navy that could rival the Royal Navy.
