1. The Road
to Revolution:
( )
Chapters 6, 7, 8

2. Tar and Feathering

3. Stamp Act Crisis Loyal Nine - 1765
Sons of Liberty – began in NYC: Samuel Adams
Stamp Act Congress – * Stamp Act Resolves
Declaratory Act – 1766

4. Townshend Duties Crisis: 1767-1770
1767  William Pitt, P. M. & Charles Townshend, Secretary of the Exchequer.
Shift from paying taxes for Br. war debts & quartering of troops  paying col. govt. salaries.
He diverted revenue collection from internal to external trade.
Tax these imports  paper, paint, lead, glass, tea.
Increase custom officials at American ports  established a Board of Customs in Boston.

5. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

6. Tea Act (1773) British East India Co.: Monopoly on Br. tea imports.
Many members of Parl. held shares.
Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!)
North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

7. Boston Tea Party (1773)

8. The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774)
1. Port Bill
2. Government Act
3. New Quartering Act
Lord North
4. Administration of Justice Act

9. The Quebec Act (1774)

10. First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act?
1 vote per colony represented.

11. The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

12. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

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

14. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

15. Declaration of Independence (1776)