You say you want a Revolution? You know it’s gonna be…alright

Well, you know, we all want to change the world Political Problems with Great Britain after 1763 Naval Patrols The Colonists and British respond to each other

Political Problems with Great Britain after 1763 Freedom from the “French Menace” Distance from the Mother Country Issue of Home Rule

Political Problems with Great Britain after 1763 Territorial Disputes The End of Salutary Neglect

Freedom from the “French Menace” The French no longer occupy the western borders

Distance from the Mother Country Over 3000 miles away

Issue of Home Rule Colonial Assemblies vs. the Governors Strained relationships with Parliament and the Privy Council

Issue of Home Rule-2 Parliamentary Representation and Taxation

Territorial Disputes Land Across the Appalachians British Concerns Colonial Response

The End of Salutary Neglect Enforcement of the Navigation Acts Customs Officials

Naval Patrols The British patrolled the East Coast searching for smugglers

The Colonists and British respond to each other Sugar Act Stamp Act Townshend Acts Boston Massacre

The Colonists and British respond to each other The Gaspee Affair The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade

Sugar Act Tax placed on all imported sugar

Sugar Act -Colonial Response Objections by colonial slave traders

Stamp Act What it was

Stamp Act- Colonial Response Stamp Act Congress Move Toward Unity Boycott of British Goods

Stamp Act- Colonial Response The Sons of Liberty Samuel Adams

NOT THIS SAM

This Samuel Adams

Stamp Act- Colonial Response Parliament Repeals Passes Declaratory Act, Quebec Act

Townshend Acts Indirect Tax on imports designed to pay the governors’ salaries

Townshend Acts- Colonial Response Boycott of British Goods “Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer” Parliament repeals The Tea Tax

Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre- Colonial Response Anger and Outrage Demand for British Soldiers to stand trial

Boston Massacre- Colonial Response British remove troops from Boston Trial of Soldiers John Adams

The Gaspee Affair British search for the guilty Threat of Trial in England

The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade

The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade-Colonial Response Resentment of a tax on tea Fear of a monopoly Boston Tea Party

Edenton Tea Party

The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade- Colonial Response Other Tea Parties Parliament Passes Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts Closes Boston Harbor Military Occupation Revocation of Massachusetts’ Charter

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts-Colonial Response The First Continental Congress Rejection of the Galloway Plan Decision to boycott British goods

First Continental Congress- Sept. 5 to Oct. 26, 1774

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts-Colonial Response The First Continental Congress Call for a Second Continental Congress in May 1775