Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY The Road to Revolution: (1770-1776) By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Second Continental Congress Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts Quiz Lexington and Concord Second Continental Congress Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts Declaration of Independence Boston Tea Party Treaty of Paris Boston Massacre Sugar and Stamp Act First Continental Congress Proclamation Line

Treaty of Paris (1763) Proclamation Line (1763) Sugar and Stamp Act (1764) Boston Massacre (1770) Boston Tea Party (1773) Intolerable Acts/Coercive Act (Spring 1774) First Continental Congress (late spring 1774) Lexington and Concord(Sept 1774) Second Continental Congress (May 1775) Declaration of Independence (1776)

Was the American Revolution Inevitable??

George Grenville’s Program, 1763-1765 1. Sugar Act - 1764 2. Currency Act - 1764 3. Quartering Act - 1765 4. Stamp Act - 1765

Stamp Act Crisis Loyal Nine - 1765 Sons of Liberty – began in NYC: Samuel Adams Stamp Act Congress – 1765 * Stamp Act Resolves due to non importation support Declaratory Act – 1766

Sugar and Stamp Acts 1. Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765) a. Tax actually went down! b. Strictly enforced c. Smuggling more risky d. James Otis, Jr. – no taxation w/o representation e. Boycott of English products/nonimportation Stamp Act (1765) - Tax paid on any paper products such as newspapers, papers needed for work, envelops, etc.

Townshend Duties Crisis: 1767-1770 1767  William Pitt, P. M. & Charles Townshend, Secretary of the Exchequer. Shift from paying taxes for Br. war debts & quartering of troops  paying col. govt. salaries. He diverted revenue collection from internal to external trade. Tax these imports  paper, paint, lead, glass, tea. Increase custom officials at American ports  established a Board of Customs in Boston.

Colonial Response to the Townshend Duties 1. John Dickinson  1768 * Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. 2. 1768  2nd non-importation movement: * “Daughters of Liberty” * spinning bees 3. Riots against customs agents: * John Hancock’s ship, the Liberty. * 4000 British troops sent to Boston.

many colonists began calling people who joined the non-importation For the first time, many colonists began calling people who joined the non-importation movement, "patriots!"

The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

Committees of Correspondence Purpose  warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br.  broaden the resistance movement.

Tea Act (1773) British East India Co.: Monopoly on Br. tea imports. Many members of Parl. held shares. Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!) North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

Boston Tea Party (1773)

The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774) 1. Boston Port Act: port closed until payment of tea paid 2. Government Act 3. New Quartering Act Lord North 4. Administration of Justice Act

The Quebec Act (1774) French guaranteed Catholic religion Keep old customs and institutions; no representative assembly or trial by jury Southern boundaries changed towards Ohio Valley

First Continental Congress (1774) 55 delegates from 12 colonies Resulted in The Association: nonimportation Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act? 1 vote per colony represented.

:For tax collectors and violators of non importation Tar and Feathering :For tax collectors and violators of non importation

The British Are Coming . . . Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

Was the American Revolution Inevitable??

What were the strengthens and weaknesses from either side?