The American Revolution

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The American Revolution

French & Indian War (Seven Years War)

King George III

George Grenville Prime Minister’s Plan to Pay French & Indian War Debt Sugar Act (1764) Currency Act (1764) Quartering Act (1765) Stamp Act (1765)

Stamp Act Crisis, 1765

Townsend Acts (1767) Taxes on Imported Goods: Paint, Paper, & Tea Suspends New York General Assembly

Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770

Boston Massacre 1770 Compare this image to the last one. How could they present the event differently?

Samuel Adams & the Sons of Liberty

Boston Tea Party December 1773

Intolerable Acts, 1774 Closed the Port at Boston Harbor Dismantled Massachusetts General Assembly Removed Royal Officials from Local Courts Required the Quartering of British Troops

The Continental Congress September 5, 1774

“The Shot Heard Around the World” April 19, 1775 The Battle of Lexington

Battles of Lexington and Concord, April 19, 1775

Second Continental Congress April 1775 Olive Branch Petition Create Continental Army Appointed General George Washington to Command the Army

General George Washington

Thomas Paine & Common Sense (1776)

John Adams Robert Livingston Benjamin Franklin Roger Sherman Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of Independence

The Exodus of the Loyalists

“These are the times that try men’s souls” Thomas Paine, “The Crisis”

Battle of Trenton, Christmas 1776

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Winter 1777-1778

Cornwallis at Yorktown October 19, 1781

Treaty of Paris September 3, 1783