1. Path Towards Revolution
EQ: What were the causes
of the American Revolution?

2. King George III Of England
Ascended throne at age 22
Immature, inexperienced, insecure
Rare disease

3. George Grenville: Prime Minister

4. England was heavily in debt. Why?

5. Proclamation Line of 1763 Vacant land?
Imaginary line to prevent further settlement
Why?
Whites ignore line

6. Sugar Act of 1764 Halved duty on foreign made molasses
Placed additional taxes on other imported luxury items
Created Vice-Admiralty Courts or maritime courts composed only of a judge

7. Currency Act of 1764 No colonial paper money
Helped British merchants – how?

8. Stamp Act of 1765 Tax on printed materials Precedent setting?
Court documents, pamphlets, licenses, land titles, advertisements, playing cards, newspapers, etc.
Precedent setting?

9. Stamp Act Congress 9 colonies met in NY to discuss the Act
Decided only elected representatives had authority to approve taxes – “No taxation w/o rep”
Virtual representation = B.S.

10. Sons of Liberty

11. Tarred and Feathered

12. Stamp Collector Effigy

14. Repeal of the Stamp Act - 1766
Parliament compromises and repeals acts due to colonial protest and boycotting
Reaffirmed the Parliament’s “full power and authority to make laws and statutes”
Passage of the Declaratory Act

15. Townshend Acts Charles Townshend Tax on paper, paint, glass, & tea
Search of private homes for smuggled items

16. Quartering Act

17. American Reaction Boycott of British goods
Daughters of Liberty were colonial women who helped by spinning cloth to lessen the dependence on British manufactured goods

18. Townshend Act Repealed - 1770
British economy suffering due to American boycotts
All taxes repealed except for tea tax
Lord North

19. Boston Massacre - 1770 Crispus Attucks
British soldiers fired into a rowdy crowd, killing 5 men
Colonist John Adams defended the red coats
Crispus Attucks

21. Tea Act
To provide financial relief for the British East India Company
Company did not have to pay tariffs on tea it sold
Monopoly

22. Daughters of Liberty
“Rather than freedom, we’ll part with our tea”

23. Boston Tea Party

24. Coercive Acts - 1774 “Intolerable Acts”
To punish Boston for the Tea Party
Port Act: closed Boston harbor until money was paid back
Massachusetts Gov’t Act: reduced power of colonial legislature
Justice Act - trials for royal officials to be transferred to Britain

25. Quebec Act 1774 Roman Catholicism became official religion
Extended Quebec territory to Ohio River
Took away representative gov’t

26. 1st Continental Congress
Met in 1774
12 colonies
Condemned the Coercive Acts
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Meet again in 1 year

27. Battle of Lexington & Concord - 1775
British soldiers planned to arrest leaders and take colonial gunpowder
Minutemen knew ahead of time
“Shot heard around the World”
Paul Revere