1. The Road to Revolution

2. A Plot Against Liberty

3. Revitalizing American Society

4. Discuss
What was the influence of the Enlightenment and religion on the independence movement?

5. Revolutionary Society—City Dwellers

6. Revolutionary Society— Women

7. Revolutionary Society— Women

8. Revolutionary Society—Farmers

9. Recap
The confluence of ideas and events created a time primed for revolution.

10. Taxing the Colonists

11. Sugar, Currency, and Stamps
1764: Revenue & Sugar Act
1764: Currency Act
1765: Stamp Act
Stamp Act Riots
Oct. 1765: Stamp Act Congress
March 1766: Stamp Act Repealed, Declaratory Act passed

12. The Sugar Act

13. The Sugar Act

14. The Currency Act

15. The Stamp Act
Engraving of a woman spinning cloth because of the boycott of British goods. They were considered “true daughters of liberty”.

16. The Stamp Act
This 1767 engraving, published in Great Britain and attributed to Benjamin Franklin, warned of the consequences of alienating the colonies through enforcement of the Stamp Act. The cartoon depicts Britannia, surrounded by her amputated limbs—marked Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and New England—as she contemplates the decline of her empire. Franklin, who was in England representing the colonists’ claims, arranged to have the image printed on cards that he distributed to members of Parliament.

17. The Stamp Act Backlash

18. The Stamp Act Backlash
This 1766 cartoon depicts a mock funeral procession for the American Stamp Act, and includes its principal proponent, Treasury Secretary George Grenville, carrying a child’s coffin marked “Miss Ame-Stamp, born 1765, died 1766.” - 

19. The Stamp Act Congress

20. Ideas of Liberty Spread

21. Recap
In order to pay for the expensive French and Indian War, Great Britain ended salutory neglect and reinstated mercantilism.
The American colonists resisted, sometimes violently, these efforts and a new, independent mentality began.

22. Discuss
Did the colonists have cause to complain, or was Parliament justified in levying these taxes?

23. An Uncertain Interlude
1766 Townshend Act
1765 Quartering Act
March 5, 1770: Townshend Act Repealed
Same day: Boston Massacre

24. An Uncertain Interlude, 1766-1770

25. An Uncertain Interlude
Paying the excise man, tar and feathering, forcing tea. Boston.

26. An Uncertain Interlude

27. The Growing Rift 1772: Committees of Correspondence
December 16, 1773: Boston Tea Party
 Coercive Acts, Intolerable Acts
Sep. 1774: 1st Continental Congress
Declaration of Rights and Resolves

28. The Growing Rift
Sam Adams

29. Unofficial Fighting,

30. The Growing Rift

31. The Growing Rift

32. Discuss
Explain how each of the following could be viewed as a threat to freedom by different groups of colonists: the growing debt of Virginia planters, a lack of courts in the Carolina backcountry, imports of British manufactured goods, and imports of low-priced tea.

33. The Final Rupture April 19, 1775: Battle at Lexington and Concord
May 1775: Second Continental Congress
January 9, 1776: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense published
May 1776: Quebec assault fails
July 1776: Declaration of Independence passes, official on July 4.

34. The Final Rupture

35. The Final Rupture

36. The Final Rupture
Amos Doolittle, Battle of Lexington, engraving, of Ralph Earl, Battle of Lexington, 1775

37. The Final Rupture
“The most incendiary and popular pamphlet of the entire revolutionary era.”

38. The Final Rupture
Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and John Adams of Massachusetts

39. The Final Rupture

40. Discuss
What single event created the most momentum for the American Revolution?

41. Writing Practice
Break down, SPRITE, write an intro in the proper format (yellow paper), and a body paragraph. Due Monday in pen or typed.
All parts of the intro
ST that is arguable and encompasses all aspects of what will be in the paragraph
Strong factual support

42. Analyze the ways in which British imperial policies between 1763 and 1776 intensified colonials’ resistance to British rule and their commitment to republican values.