Thought of the Day Provide 5 facts describing the video “ No More Kings.”

1. Thought of the Day Provide 5 facts describing the video “No More Kings.”

2. Causes of the American Revolution

3. What events & actions caused the colonists to rebel against Britain? • Albany Plan of Union • 1st attempt to unite the colonist under on government • Led by Benjamin Franklin • French and Indian War • -War between the British and the French • -Policy of Salutary Neglect began to end • -British wanted colonists to help pay for war and raised taxes • Proclamation of 1763 • -Closed the frontier • -Colonists couldn’t go west (made the colonists feel like Britain was trying to control them)

4. What events & actions caused the colonists to rebel against Britain? • Writs of Assistance • Colonists were being searched without any reasonable cause • Quartering Act • -Colonists were forced to allow British troops to stay in their private homes • Stamp Act • -Colonists had to purchase special stamps for all paper and legal documents

5. What events & actions caused the colonists to rebel against Britain? • Navigation Act • -Restricted trade between colonists & Britain • Act of mercantilism, where colonists were used only for benefit of their owner • Could only ship items on British ships • Goods must pass through British ports • Crews must be ¾ English

6. What events & actions caused the colonists to rebel against Britain? • Boston Massacre • Tensions were on the rise between the colonists & British • March 1770, shots were fired at a demonstration (5 people killed) • Boston Tea Party • Organized by the Sons of Liberty to protest Tea Act (placed tax on tea) • Men dressed as Native Americans, boarded the ships and threw the tea overboard • Intolerable/Coercive Acts • -placed Boston under martial law & closed Boston Harbor

7. How did the colonists react to treatment they received from the British? • “No taxation without representation” • Citizens began to protest taxes if Parliament continued to ignore the colonists • Committee of Correspondence • Passed news from colony to colony about how England was violating the colonists’ rights • First Continental Congress • -Met in Philadelphia, 1774 • Hoped to get the British government to respect colonist’s rights • Would meet in a year if situation didn’t improve

8. How did the colonists react to treatment they received from the British? • Second Continental Congress • Situation didn’t improve • Delegates met to discuss independence • Thomas Paine’s Common Sense sealed the deal • Said it was logical to declare independence • July 4, 1776 the colonists declared independence