The Road to Revolution 1764-1776
A Plot Against Liberty
Revitalizing American Society
Discuss What was the influence of the Enlightenment and religion on the independence movement?
Revolutionary Society—City Dwellers
Revolutionary Society— Women
Revolutionary Society— Women
Revolutionary Society—Farmers
Recap The confluence of ideas and events created a time primed for revolution.
Taxing the Colonists 1764-1766
Sugar, Currency, and Stamps 1764: Revenue & Sugar Act 1764: Currency Act 1765: Stamp Act Stamp Act Riots Oct. 1765: Stamp Act Congress March 1766: Stamp Act Repealed, Declaratory Act passed
The Sugar Act
The Sugar Act
The Currency Act
The Stamp Act Engraving of a woman spinning cloth because of the boycott of British goods. They were considered “true daughters of liberty”.
The Stamp Act This 1767 engraving, published in Great Britain and attributed to Benjamin Franklin, warned of the consequences of alienating the colonies through enforcement of the Stamp Act. The cartoon depicts Britannia, surrounded by her amputated limbs—marked Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England—as she contemplates the decline of her empire. Franklin, who was in England representing the colonists’ claims, arranged to have the image printed on cards that he distributed to members of Parliament.
The Stamp Act Backlash
The Stamp Act Backlash This 1766 cartoon depicts a mock funeral procession for the American Stamp Act, and includes its principal proponent, Treasury Secretary George Grenville, carrying a child’s coffin marked “Miss Ame-Stamp, born 1765, died 1766.” -
The Stamp Act Congress
Ideas of Liberty Spread
Recap In order to pay for the expensive French and Indian War, Great Britain ended salutory neglect and reinstated mercantilism. The American colonists resisted, sometimes violently, these efforts and a new, independent mentality began.
Discuss Did the colonists have cause to complain, or was Parliament justified in levying these taxes?
An Uncertain Interlude 1766 Townshend Act 1765 Quartering Act March 5, 1770: Townshend Act Repealed Same day: Boston Massacre
An Uncertain Interlude, 1766-1770
An Uncertain Interlude Paying the excise man, tar and feathering, forcing tea. Boston.
An Uncertain Interlude
The Growing Rift 1772: Committees of Correspondence December 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party Coercive Acts, Intolerable Acts Sep. 1774: 1st Continental Congress Declaration of Rights and Resolves
The Growing Rift Sam Adams
Unofficial Fighting, 1773-1775
The Growing Rift
The Growing Rift
Discuss Explain how each of the following could be viewed as a threat to freedom by different groups of colonists: the growing debt of Virginia planters, a lack of courts in the Carolina backcountry, imports of British manufactured goods, and imports of low-priced tea.
The Final Rupture April 19, 1775: Battle at Lexington and Concord May 1775: Second Continental Congress January 9, 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published May 1776: Quebec assault fails July 1776: Declaration of Independence passes, official on July 4.
The Final Rupture
The Final Rupture
The Final Rupture Amos Doolittle, Battle of Lexington, engraving, of Ralph Earl, Battle of Lexington, 1775
The Final Rupture “The most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era.”
The Final Rupture Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and John Adams of Massachusetts
The Final Rupture
Discuss What single event created the most momentum for the American Revolution?
Writing Practice Break down, SPRITE, write an intro in the proper format (yellow paper), and a body paragraph. Due Monday in pen or typed. All parts of the intro ST that is arguable and encompasses all aspects of what will be in the paragraph Strong factual support
Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.