Unit 3 Revolution to Constitution
Section 1 – Road to Revolution
Jeffrey Amherst
Pontiac
Fort Detroit
Pontiac’s War
Proclamation of 1763 control angered
No taxation without representation! Section 1 – Road to Revolution
Sons of Liberty
Section 1 – Road to Revolution boycott repealed
Charles Townshend
Section 1 – Road to Revolution writs of assistance tea
Samuel Adams
Section 1 – Road to Revolution printers
George WashingtonPatrick Henry
Crispus Attucks
Section 1 – Road to Revolution Boston Massacre
John Adams
England’s King George III
Section 1 – Road to Revolution Tea Act monopoly smugglers boycott
Samuel Adams John Hancock
Section 1 – Road to Revolution Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) control rights
Section 1 – Road to Revolution Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) shut down the port of Boston Quartering Act
Amendment 1 –Freedoms of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition Protects 5 basic rights Added because of Intolerable Acts passed by England for the colonies
Amendment 3 –Lodging Troops in Private Homes Limits the government’s right to use private homes to house soldiers – must have consent of the owner Added because of Quartering Acts passed by England for the colonies
Section 1 – Road to Revolution Quebec Act
Section 1 – Road to Revolution Philadelphia First Continental Congress stop exporting militia minutemen
Thomas Gage
Paul Revere
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Now listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.”
John Parker Statue in Lexington Lexington skirmish
Concord battleground
Section 1 – Road to Revolution sharpshooters
Ralph Waldo Emerson “The shot heard round the world.”
Example of a political cartoon about taxes in Italy.
Section 2 – The American Revolution
Patrick Henry “Give me liberty or give me death.”
American Revolution began on April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord 1775EnglandColonies Weapons & supplies Had all they neededNext to none ArmiesBiggest in worldNext to none NavyLargest in worldNone MoneyRichest in world (biggest country) Next to nothing Biggest advantage Americans had: fighting on their own soil, they knew the terrain.
Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen
Section 2 – The American Revolution Fort Ticonderoga (first big battle of the American Revolution) cannon Canada
Section 2 – The American Revolution Second Continental Congress Olive Branch Petition Continental Army George Washington
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Colonel British General William Prescott William Howe
Section 2 – The American Revolution “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!” Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Section 2 – The American Revolution gunpowder moral
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
Section 2 – The American Revolution mistrusted loyalty
Section 2 – The American Revolution blockade Quebec
Richard Montgomery Benedict Arnold
Section 2 – The American Revolution hunger and disease
Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense
Section 2 – The American Revolution independence traitors
John Adams Benjamin Franklin Robert Livingston Roger Sherman
Thomas Jefferson “Father” of the Declaration of Independence
John Hancock
Declaration of Independence 3 main parts 1. Basic rights –governments –duty 2. British wrongs 3. An independent nation –United States of America
Declaration of Independence United States of America ties with Britain were cut free alliances and trade
Section 2 – The American Revolution divided Patriots –People who wanted colonists to win the revolution Loyalists –People who wanted England to win the revolution
Section 2 – The American Revolution fled lost