DO NOW 10/12/2016 DRAW A TIMELINE AND PLACE THE FOLLOWING EVENTS IN ORDER. STAMP ACT SUGAR ACT BOSTON MASSACRE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS TOWNSHEND ACTS QUARTERING ACTS
British Advantages and Disadvantages (Redcoats) Advantages Powerful army, well trained Best Navy in the world Loyalist supported Britain Well supplied Disadvantages Army was 3000 miles away from home They didn’t know the territory Poor leadership Took time and money to send supplies
American Advantages and Disadvantages (Continental Army) Advantages Good hunters and shooters Washington was a great leader Fighting to defend their homes Loved their country Disadvantages Poorly organized and trained Few weapons and supplies Few men willing to enlist and leave home
Revolutionary War Era Review
What started the war? Fur trade French and Indian War Taxes Ohio River Valley
What was it? Sugar ACT
What year? Sugar ACT 1764
What was it? STAMP ACT TAX ON PAPER DOCUMENTS
What year? STAMP ACT 1765
TAX ON PAINT, LEAD, TEA, AND GLASS What was it? Townshend ACT TAX ON PAINT, LEAD, TEA, AND GLASS
What year? Townshend ACT 1767
British officials sent to Britain for trial. Revived the housing act. What was it? CLOSED BOSTON HARBOR. No town meetings. British officials sent to Britain for trial. Revived the housing act. Intolerable ( Coercive) ACT
What year? Intolerable ACT 1774
Colonists threw snowballs at the soldiers. What was it? Boston Massacre Colonists threw snowballs at the soldiers. Soldiers opened fire.
What year? Boston Massacre 1770
Son’s of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and threw tea into the What was it? Son’s of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and threw tea into the Boston Harbor Boston Tea Party
What year? Boston Tea Party 1773
Patriots supported? American Independence: the colonists
Loyalists supported? British control: Supported Great Britain but lived in the colonies.
What did Paul Revere do? Warn the colonists that the British redcoats were coming.
What groups did Samuel Adams create? Son’s of Liberty Daughter’s of Liberty Committee of Correspondence
Ohio River Valley was needed for? Fur trade
Thomas Paine did what? Wrote a pamphlet urging colonists to fight for independence
Loyalists a person who remains faithful to his home country (Britain)
Patriots a person who loves his country; colonist who favored war against Britain