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Road to Revolution: The American Colonies

Road to Revolution: The American Colonies. The Proclamation of 1763. Following the French and Indian War, the British attempted to please the Indians by limiting colonial expansion at the Appalachian Mountains Colonists largely ignored the law and continued to move west. The Stamp Act: 1765 .

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Road to Revolution: The American Colonies

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  1. Road to Revolution:The American Colonies

  2. The Proclamation of 1763 • Following the French and Indian War, the British attempted to please the Indians by limiting colonial expansion at the Appalachian Mountains • Colonists largely ignored the law and continued to move west

  3. The Stamp Act: 1765 • To pay for war debts and for their increased military presence in the colonies, this law placed a tax on official stamps, which had to be placed on all printed materials King George III

  4. Reaction to the Stamp Act • “Sons of Liberty” groups organized in Boston and other cities • Burned effigies and destroyed houses of Royal tax collectors • Used slogan “No Taxation Without Representation” • Boycott of British goods leads to repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766, but Parliament affirms its right to pass laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever” in the Declaratory Act

  5. The Townshend Act: 1767 • Taxed specific goods imported from Great Britain, including glass, paper, lead, and tea (largest import) • Stationed British troops in colonial ports to protect customs officers Samuel Adams – Sons of Liberty

  6. Reaction to the Townshend Act • Another boycott of British goods – led by the Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty • Formation of “Committees of Correspondence” to coordinate resistance between the colonies • Colonist anger set the stage for the Boston Massacre (1770) Tarring and Feathering a tax collector

  7. The Boston Massacre: March 5, 1770 • Paul Revere’s engraving depicting the Boston Massacre • This was posted around Boston afterwards, further stirring dissent among the colonists

  8. Tea Act: 1773 • British East India Company becomes exempt from taxes that other tea sellers had to pay • This law favored the British company over American importers

  9. Response to Tea Act • In response, the Sons of Liberty organize the “Boston Tea Party” (18,000 pounds of tea dumped into Boston Harbor)

  10. Coercive (or “Intolerable”) Acts: 1774 A direct response to resistance in Massachusetts – “cut off the head of the serpent” Shut down Boston Harbor until colonists paid for tea Took away rights – prohibited town meetings Instituted Quartering Act (forced colonists to house British soldiers) Moved trials of British soldiers charged with crimes in the colonies to England Quebec Act granted reforms favorable to Catholic settlers living in former New France

  11. Response to the Intolerable Acts • Delegates from every colony but Georgia are chosen for the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia • The Congress agrees to a boycott of all British imported goods • Petitioned the King with a list of grievances and set a date for a second Congress if their demands went unmet Cartoon depicting British officials forcing the Intolerable Acts down the throat of America – this cartoon was distributed around the colonies

  12. What has happened to the colonies? Patrick Henry (delegate to the Continental Congress, in 1774): “The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”

  13. Image sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763 userwww.sfsu.edu/~cspeidel/Stamp.jpeg http://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/joinordie2.jpg http://www.massmoments.org/photos.cfm?mid=236 http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/0/9/prod_973.jpg www.history.org http://www.vw.vccs.edu/vwhansd/his121/images/Adams_Sam.jpg

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