1. The Road
to Revolution:
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2. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

3. Tar and Feathering

4. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

5. Providence, Rhode Island
The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Providence, Rhode Island

6. Committees of Correspondence
Purpose  warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Britain  broaden the resistance movement
 spread political ideas throughout the colonies

7. Tea Act (1773) British East India Company:
Monopoly on British tea imports
Many members of Parliament held shares
Permitted the Company to sell tea directly to colonies without colonial middlemen (cheaper tea)
North expected the colonies to eagerly choose the cheaper tea
They didn’t

8. Boston Tea Party (1773)

9. The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774)
1. Port Act
2. Massachusetts Government Act
3. New Quartering Act
Lord North
4. Administration of Justice Act
5. Quebec Act

10. The Quebec Act (1774)

11. First Continental Congress (1774)
56 delegates from 12 colonies
Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act
One vote per colony represented

12. The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers (joined by more than 40 riders).

13. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 19,1775

14. The Second Continental Congress (1775)
Olive Branch Petition

15. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

16. Declaration of Independence (1776)

17. Declaration of Independence

18. Independence Hall

19. National Symbols

20. Many people and events contributed to the American Revolution