1. Causes of the American Revolution

2. You Tube: No More Kings

3. The Stamp Act 1765- Britain passed the Stamp Act
Required all wills, deeds, newspapers and playing cards have a stamp on it
Cost money to get the stamp
Colonists upset because they did not have representatives in Britain to speak for them
No Taxation Without Representation
Protests and boycott of British goods caused Britain to repeal (get rid of) the Stamp Act in 1766

4. The Stamp Act

5. Townshend Acts 1767 – British tax glass, paper, paints, and tea
- Colonists boycott all goods
again
British troops sent to keep order

6. Boston Massacre
March 5, 1770
Colonists harass a group of British soldiers
British soldier fires into crowd and chaos begins
5 colonists killed
Newspapers call it a “massacre”… (propaganda technique)

7. Committees of Correspondence
Organized by Sam Adams in 1772
Its purpose was to keep each colony informed of the latest actions of the British crown
Their goal was to increase the resistance movement within the colonies

8. Boston Tea Party In 1773, the British pass a tax on all imported tea
Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty dump $700,000 worth of tea into Boston Harbor!
Dressed as Native Americans to hide their identity!

9. The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts
1774: Parliament and King George punish the people of Boston
The Royal Navy blocks Boston Harbor… prevents goods from being shipped out
Colonists required to house (quarter) British soldiers
British General Gage assigned to be Mass. governor

10. The First Continental Congress
1774- delegates from each colony met in Philadelphia and formed the Continental Congress
They wanted to send King George a list of grievances (complaints) about Boston
King George ignores them

11. Thomas Paine: Common Sense
January 1776 – Pamphlet urging colonists to declare independence from Great Britain!

12. “When in the Course of Human Events…”
July 4, 1776 – 2nd Continental Congress in Philadelphia
Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson
Used ideas from John Locke
John Hancock first to sign it!
George Washington chosen to lead Continental Army

13. You Tube: Shot Heard Round the World

14. Shot Heard Round the World
April 1775 British soldiers met a group of armed colonists in Lexington, Massachusetts
Colonists trying to stop British from seizing their armory (place you store weapons)
Someone fired a shot and men were killed on both sides
The American Revolution had begun!

15. Video: George Washington