1. SSUSH3 Analyze the causes of the American Revolution
a. Explain how the French and Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.
b. Explain colonial response to the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, and the Intolerable Acts as seen in the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence.
c. Explain the importance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to the movement for independence.

2. Overview
The primary cause of the American Revolution was the growing belief among the colonists that their rights as Englishmen were being violated. This belief originated in the lingering effects of the French and Indian War. England prevented colonial expansion and trading outside of the British Empire which limited their economic growth.

3. Standard Essential Question
Explain the colonial movement toward Revolution as shown by its leadership in response to British intervention in the personal lives of the colonists.

4. Vocabulary

5. Warmup

6. SSUSH3 Analyze the causes of the American Revolution
a. Explain how the French and Indian War and the 1763 Treaty of Paris laid the groundwork for the American Revolution.

7. French and Indian War
Beginning in 1689, Great Britain and France fought a series of wars for control of European and colonial trade
It spilled over the American colonies
France got her Indian Friends to help them attack the colonies (from Mass to Virginia)
Colonists asked Great Britain (Mama) for help
Great Britain and Colonies win France loses all land in North America
Treaty of Paris in 1763 official document that ends the French and Indian War

8. Treaty of Paris 1763
official document that ends the French and Indian War
forced France to turn over control of Canada to Great Britain.
France also surrendered its claim to all land east of the Mississippi River, with the exception of the city of New Orleans.

9. Closing

10. Warmup

11. SSUSH3 Analyze the causes of the American Revolution
b. Explain colonial response to the Proclamation of 1763, the Stamp Act, and the Intolerable Acts as seen in the Sons and Daughters of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence.
c. Explain the importance of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense to the movement for independence.

12. Proclamation of 1763
Native Americans tried to drive English settlers out of the Ohio Valley.
Thousands of settlers and hundreds of British troops were killed before the Indians were defeated
As a result, The King made a proclamation that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
was the beginning of British and Colonial disagreements.
Angered the colonists because they had just won the land from France
Colonists felt like the King and soldiers should protect them and allow settlement of the Ohio Valley
(Remember: Mama not letting you attend party after you helped clean up and decorate for it.)

13. Pontiacs/ Ottawa War

14. Growing Tension between colonists & Great Britain
Shortly after the Treaty of Paris (1763) was concluded, the British government announced that colonies would be taxed for the cost of their protection.
These taxes included the Sugar Act of The Sugar Act imposed a tax on the importation of molasses, the key ingredient for making rum.
The new law also created vice-admiralty courts which tried suspected smugglers before a military court instead of a civilian court. (violation of English Trial by Jury of Peers)
These new measures angered American colonial importers who chose to ignore the new laws.

15. Stamp Act of 1765
tax was collected on every document or newspaper printed or used in the colonies
Stamp Act affected everyone in colonial America
law required that a stamp be affixed to the taxable property to show that the tax had been paid
colonies’ central argument was that the colonies did not have representation in Parliament. Therefore, taxes imposed by Parliament on the colonies represented a violation of English civil liberties
Stamp Act Congress was formed to draft formal petitions of protest to Parliament
merchants organized a boycott of British goods
of violence in the colonies and the economic effects of the boycotts led to the repeal of the Stamp Act in March 1766

16. Tea Act 1773
designed to expand the tea monopoly held by the British East India Company by offering British imported tea at a reduced price in all the British colonies.
colonists believed that Parliament was trying to increase tax revenue by getting the colonists to more readily accept cheap tea
colonial ports turned the tea ships away or refused to handle the British tea
December 16, 1773, members of the Sons of Liberty boarded the three tea ships and destroyed the cargo (Boston Tea Party)

17. Intolerable Acts Passed as a result of Boston Tea Party
series of laws designed to punish the American colonies, and especially Massachusetts, for attack on the British ships
It allowed soldiers to be “quartered” (live in) colonists houses as a way to force them to obey the law
It angered colonists who effectively organized the other colonies against the British government
colonists believed that Parliament had once again acted outside the English Constitution and violated the civil rights of the British citizens.

18. Taxation without Representation
Stamp Act
One of the first taxes Great Britain passed to raise money.
Colonists had to pay for British “stamps” or “seals of authorization” on printed documents.
Stamps had to be on everything from Newspapers to Marriage licenses.
Intolerable Acts
Took away the colonists’ rights to trial by jury,
Took away right to not quarter troops (this means the King could put soldiers to live in your home EVEN in time of peace
Took away the ability to appoint their own governors

19. The Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Protest grouped formed by many founding fathers to resist British taxes and laws
organized boycotts, meetings, and demonstrations
encouraged colonists to fight for independence

21. The Committees of Correspondence
formed in the colonies as the mode of communication between the colonies helping each other combat British laws.
People in one colony would write to people in another colony to tell them what was going on
Helped organize resistance against Great Britain

23. Thomas Paine Leader in anti-British movement
Wrote papers encouraging people to use some common sense and break away from Great Britain
Wrote and published Common Sense January 1776
Initially 100,000 copies were printed, and it is generally believed that the short work was either read or heard by almost every American colonist
Paine wrote a clearly worded rationale for independence that the common man could understand.
Helped to persuade many who were undecided to support the cause of independence.

24. Closing

25. Standard Essential Question
Explain the colonial movement toward Revolution as shown by its leadership in response to British intervention in the personal lives of the colonists.