1. The American Revolution

2. Thirteen Colonies

3. Trade and Navigation Acts
Goods on English or colonist built ships
Owners & crew needed to be English or American
Products to England first
Colonies produce only certain products
Enumerated articles-articles that England needed but could not produce: sugar, tobacco, furs, cotton, indigo

4. Other Acts that Led to War
Sugar Act 1764 – tax on molasses
1765 Stamp Act – newspapers, wills, letters

5. Committees of Correspondence 1772
Designed to keep the flow of information continuous throughout the colonies

6. The Stamp Act Congress 1765
Representatives from nine of the colonies met and issued their opposition to taxation
This affected British merchants and workers.

7. Quartering Act
Colonists are required to provide funds, living quarters (housing) and supplies to the British Troops stationed there

8. Townshend Acts 1767
Duties (taxes) on paint, tea, glass, lead
Led to the use of the writs of assistance
These writs were challenged in court but found to be legal

9. The Boston Massacre
1770 Between British soldiers and colonists in Boston
Interpretation
Repeal of the Townshend Act

10. In the end 5 dead, 6 wounded British soldiers defended by John Adams
Two convicted of manslaughter
Propaganda

12. Declaratory Act
March 1776
Asserts that Parliament makes all decisions for the colonies

13. Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia’s governing body, the Virginia House of Burgesses passed this resolution that only they could tax Virginians, not the king.

14. Sons & Daughters of Liberty
Encouraged boycotts
Spun their own cloth so as not to buy British cloth

15. Boston Tea Party
Tea Act of 1773 – Colonists in Boston refuse to allow ships to unload
Overnight, dressed as Native Americans, they dump 342 chests of Tea into Boston Harbor

16. Intolerable Acts
King and Parliaments response to Boston Tea Party
Port closed until colonists paid for destroyed tea ($75,000)
Deprived of right to elect officials

17. Intolerable Acts Con’t
British soldiers tried in England
Another Quartering Act

18. First Continental Congress 1774
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Agreed to not use English goods until Intolerable Acts were repealed
Agreed to meet again

19. First Shot
Paul Revere’s Ride
Battle at Lexington April 19, 1775

20. Second Continental Congress
May 1775, John Hancock President
Established a Continental Army

21. 2nd Continental Congress
Appointed George Washington as commander-in-chief
Asked colonies to raise troops & money

22. Thomas Paine Wrote Common Sense Ridiculed the British monarchy
Told Americans to sever ties with Great Britain
Thousands were swayed by his pamphlet

23. The Declaration of Independence
July, 1776 – The Second Continental Congress
Authored by Thomas Jefferson with Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston
Thomas Paine

24. Democratic Government
Political power in a democracy comes from the people and is for the benefit of all. The signers of the Declaration of Independence would be considered traitors by the English. If they lost the war they would face death for their treason.

25. Major Battles
Long Island – NY – British – Divided colonies, Long Island was a major water port
Trenton & Princeton – NJ – Continental Army
Battle of Saratoga – NY – Continental Army – Major victory, encouraged French to join on side of colonists

26. Major Battles
Moores Creek/Guilfort Courthouse – British – Numerous losses on both sides
Yorktown – With help of French fleet able to surround British
Surrender at Yorktown, Virginia October 6, 1781

27. Help from other nations
French – sent gunpowder, artillery, weapons, soldiers, ships and recognized colonial independence
Spanish – fought in FL & MS

28. People
James Middleton – African American officer in Continental Army for a regiment in MA
George Rogers Clark – led battles for the C. A. in West
Nathaniel Green – Fought in Carolinas
Marquis de Lafayette – aide to Washington

29. Friedrich von Steuben – Drilled soldiers at Valley Forge from Prussia
Molly Pitcher – Mary Hayes assisted on battlefield in Battle of Monmouth, NJ
Charles Cornwallis – British commander that surrendered at Yorktown

30. The Treaty of Paris 1783 Ended the American Revolution
Recognized the United States of America

31. Post American Revolution
Articles of Confederation
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights

32. 1. Bunker Hill
2. Rhode Island
Massachusetts
4. Boston Massacre
5. Saratoga
6. Non importation
7. Smuggle
Coercive Act
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. John Hancock
11. Benjamin Franklin
Boycott
Repeal
Guerilla
15. Thomas Paine
16. Stamp Act
17. Tea Act
18. Ticonderoga
19. Valley Forge
20. Samuel Adams
21. Sugar Act
22. Marquis de Lafayette
23. Ethan Allen
24. Benedict Arnold

33. 1. Crispus Attucks
2. Rhode Island
Massachusetts
4. Lexington
Custons duty
6. Non importation
7. Writ of assistance
John Locke
9. Sons of Liberty
10. John Hancock
11. Benjamin Franklin
Letter of Marque
Repeal
Guerilla
15. George Washington
16. Trenton
17. George III
18. Charles I
19. Natural Rights
20. Samuel Adams
21. Enlightenment
22. Marquis de Lafayette
23. Robert Morris
24. Declaration of Independence

34. Impel
Usurpation
Preamble
Abdicated
Annihilation
Insurrections
Consanguinity
8. Naturalization of Foreigners
Perfidy
Quartering
11. Render
12. Petition for Redress
13. Unwarrantable Jurisdiction
Rectitude
Despotism
16. Convulsions
Tenure
Inestimable
Relinquish
Endowed
21. Samuel Adams
22. John Adams
23. James Otis
24. Paul Revere