1. Colonization Issues Behind the Revolution

2. Founding of the Colonies
Jamestown First Colony- established for money
Tobacco /
House of Burgesses/ 1st representative democracy
Plymouth –Puritains searching for Religous freedom
Mayflower Compact-Direct Democracy

3. French Indian War SALUTORY NEGLECT French Indian war/
Britain sent troops
to protect colonies
Very costly

4. Changing British Policy
After the French Indian War/ expensive
A. Proclamation of 1763
1. Area west of Appalachian
Mnts. is closed to colonial settlement
2. Colonists continue to
move west into forbidden territory
B. Britain’s Financial Problems
C. Sugar & Quartering Acts
1. Sugar Act (1764): raises money for Britain
2. Quartering Act (1765) colonists must house British troops

5. II. Stamp Act Crisis A. Stamp Act (1765)
1. Tax is placed on printed materials in colonies
2. Colonies protest the tax
B. Stamp Act Congress
1. Colonial delegates meet & discuss the Stamp Act
2. Declaration of Rights & Grievances

6. C. Sons of Liberty
1. Colonists boycott British goods
2. Boycott and protests lead to repeal of the Stamp Act

7. III. Rising Tensions in the Colonies
A. Declaratory Act (1766) Parliament asserts its authority
B. Townshend Act (1767)
1. Duties imposed on imported glass and tea
2. Colonists protest; boycotts declared
C. Boston Massacre (1770)
1. British soldiers fire into crowd of colonists
2. Coordinated resistance against British throughout colonies

8. D. Boston Tea Party (1773)
1. Tea Act threatens livelihood of American tea merchants
2. Colonists dump East India Company tea into Boston harbor
E. Intolerable Acts(1774)
Punish Boston & MA

9. 2. George III resists appeal
F. First Continental Congress
1. Declaration and Resolves appeals to the king to resolve crisis
2. George III resists appeal

10. IV. Fighting at Lexington and Concord
A. Massachusetts Patriots Form Militias
B. Revolutionary War Begins

11. Declaration of Independence
July 4th, 1776
Written by Thomas Jefferson
TJ took his ideas from
philosopher
John Locke
3 parts
1st stated a gov’t should protect its citizens
2nd listed grievances against England
3rd America is claiming independence
Thomas Payne’s book “Common Sense”
Persuaded colonists to support independence

12. The American Revolution
The Battle of Bunker Hill showed
British perseverance sending line after
line into the American lines
on the high ground until the
American
forces had to with draw b/c of
an ammunition shortage.
The 1st year of the war 1776
Americans were desperate for a
victory for the largely untrained,
disorganized troops led by
Gen. Washington. Washington’s
army retreated to New Jersey.

13. British soldiers hired Hessian mercenaries who helped the take over of Boston, New York and Philadelphia (the American capital).
On Christmas night, 1776 Washington launched a surprised attack on Trenton, N.J.

14. The Hessians defenders fled giving Washington his first major victory
The Hessians defenders fled giving Washington his first major victory. Battle of Trenton.
This was welcomed news as Washington’s men lacked food and clothing at Valley Forge in the severe winter of

15. A turning point in the war was a decisive American victory at the Battle of Saratoga, N.Y. in October Americans showed enough strength in this battle to convince France to send military and naval assistance.

16. The last years of the war were fought in the south
The last years of the war were fought in the south. ( the Patriot movie) In 1781 aided by the French navy Washington forced the British commander General Lord Cornwallis, to surrender his troops at Yorktown Virginia. Battle of Yorktown