1. CRT Review
Road to Revolution

2. FUR!!! LAND! Reasons for War
France AND Britain want the Ohio River Valley because…..
FUR!!!
LAND!

3. It was first attempt to unite the colonies
1754: Albany Plan of Union
It was first attempt to unite the colonies
REJECTED!

4. Ended the French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris of 1763
Ended the French and Indian War
France lost all claims of land
Land was split by Spain and Great Britain

5. Effects of the French and Indian War
Proclamation Line of 1763
Colonist couldn't settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.

6. Effects or RESULTS of the French & Indian War
King George III passes Proclamation Line of 1763
( cannot settle pass the Appalachian Mountains)
The British in DEBT.
Fastest way to get out to debt is TAXES.
Great Britain decides to tax colonist directly for the war.

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1764 Sugar Act

8. Tax on Sugar and Molasses.
British did this to pay for the war.

9. “NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”
Reaction of Colonist:
“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”
BOYCOTT (refuse to buy)
Committees of Correspondence
shared information with groups in other colonial towns about British laws and ways to challenge them

10. Britain Reaction:
REPEAL THE TAX
TAKE IT AWAY
British did this to pay for the war.

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1765 Stamp Act

12. Tax where colonist would have to buy a stamp for any paper product

13. Reaction to the Stamp Act
Boycott British Goods
2. Sons of Liberty:
group of colonists who did violent protests against the taxes.
3. “No Taxation without Representation!”
Samual Adams was a leaders of this group

14. During a series of protests linked to the Sons of Liberty, colonists burn and sack the house of the Massachusetts lieutenant governor, Thomas Hutchinson.

15. Stamp Act Resolves Patrick Henry
Passed by Virginia’s House of Burgesses
Stated that only Virginia had power to taxes on its citizens

16. REPEALED THE STAMP ACT IN 1766
Britain Reaction
REPEALED THE
STAMP ACT IN 1766

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1766 Declaratory Act

18. Great Britain still had power over Colonies.
Parliament had the power to make laws for the colonies “in all cases whatsoever”
Great Britain still had power over Colonies.

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1767 TOWNSHEND ACTS

20. Tax on Imports: glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea
Stations Troops at colonial Ports to protect Customs (tax)
officers.
Writs of Assistance:
(Search Warrants)

21. Reaction of Colonist
Daughters of Liberty: made homespun goods such as blankets & linens
BOYCOTT
“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”

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1770 Boston Massacre

23. Colonist labeled it as Massacre
The Boston Massacre 1770
British troops stationed in Boston are taunted by an angry mob. The troops fire into the crowd, killing five men.
Colonist labeled it as Massacre

24. The Boston Massacre 1770
Paul Revere makes engraving to turn public opinion against British.
Reaction :
Parliament Repealed Townshend Acts

25. Parliament Repealed Townshend Acts
Britain Reaction :
Parliament Repealed Townshend Acts

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1773 Boston TEA PARTY

27. Tax on tea to hurt colonial tea merchants

28. Colonist Reaction: Boston Tea Party
British Action
Colonist in Boston rebel, dumping 15,000 pounds of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor

29. Boston Tea party Intolerable Acts
Britain Reaction:
Boston Tea party
Intolerable Acts

30. 1774 Coercive “Intolerable Act”
Fifth TAX on colonist
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1774 Coercive “Intolerable Act”

31. It is the “Intolerable Act” It is INTOLERABLE to live with Last Tax before the War

32. 1774 Intolerable Acts
King George tightens control over Massachusetts, New Governors, by closing Boston Harbor and Quartering Troops.

33. First Continental Congress
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First Continental Congress

34. What do we do about the British in Boston?
Colonial Reaction
First Continental Congress in 1775 in Philadelphia
Met to respond to the “Intolerable Acts.”
What do we do about the British in Boston?
BOYCOTT
CREATE MILITIA
DECLARATION OF RIGHTS