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The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776)

The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776). Adapted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. Was the American Revolution Inevitable??. The Boston Massacre ( March 5,1770 ). Tar and Feathering. John Malcolm, Boston Commissioner of Customs.

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The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776)

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  1. The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776) Adapted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  2. Was the American Revolution Inevitable??

  3. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

  4. Tar and Feathering John Malcolm, Boston Commissioner of Customs “The Bostonians Paying the Excise Man” What other images do you see that show this is a British illustration?

  5. The Gaspee Incident(1772) What was the British response and why did the colonists oppose? Providence, RI coast

  6. Committees of Correspondence Purpose:  warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br.  broaden the resistance movement. Mass, Va, Con., N.H. & S. Car by 1773 Samuel Adams

  7. 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 Edenton Tea Party, 1774

  8. Boston Tea Party (1773)

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

  10. The Quebec Act (1774) What did it do and why was it “coercive” to the colonists?

  11. 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.

  12. Declaration of Rights and Grievances First Continental Congress (1774) • To these grievous acts and measures, Americans cannot submit, but in hopes their fellow subjects in Great Britain will, on a revision of them, restore us to that state, in which both countries found happiness and prosperity, we have for the present, only resolved to pursue the following peaceable measures: • 1. To enter into a non-importation, non-consumption, and non-exportation agreement or association. • 2. To prepare an address to the people of Great-Britain, and a memorial to the inhabitants of British America: and • 3. To prepare a loyal address to his majesty, agreeable to resolutions already entered into.

  13. The British Are Coming . . . Why were British troops on the move? Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

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

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

  16. Was the American Revolution Inevitable??

  17. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

  18. Declaration of Independence (1776)

  19. Declaration of Independence

  20. Independence Hall

  21. New National Symbols

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