1. Deciding Where Loyalties Lie, 1763-1776
Chapter 5
Deciding Where Loyalties Lie,

2. Victory’s New Problems
Dealing with Indian and French-Canadian Resistance
Proclamation Line of 1763
Government’s policies 1st source of conflict
Americans disregarded
Demanding More from the Colonists
George Grenville
Writs of Assistance
Sugar Act

3. Victory’s New Problems
The Colonial Response
Discussion of rights, liberties, and powers of government
The Stamp Act
Help pay for costs of British empire
First DIRECT tax
The Popular Response
Sons of Liberty

4. Victory’s New Problems
Political Debate
Stamp Act raised issue of taxation without representation
Stamp Act Congress
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Nonimportation agreements
Economic effects
Declaratory Act

5. Asserting American Rights
The Townshend Acts and Colonial Protest
Imposed customs duties (1767)
Required colonists to help pay for troops
The British Humiliated
Protests mushroomed in Massachusetts
Sons of Liberty
Success Weakens Colonial Unity

6. Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre appeared in
newspapers the day after the confrontation between redcoats
and Boston citizens. Even though Captain Preston and most of his
soldiers were found innocent of wrongdoing, Revere’s striking image
of innocent civilians and murderous soldiers remained fixed in the
popular mind. It reinforced suspicion that the British were plotting to
deprive Americans of their rights and liberties.
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7. The Crisis Renewed Disturbing the Peace of the Early 1770s
Britain continued to try to eliminate smuggling
Gaspée
Committees of Correspondence
The Tea Act and the Tea Party
Colonists in many cities prevented tea from landing

8. The Crisis Renewed
Creating a National Forum: The First Continental Congress
September 5, 1774
Philadelphia
Many torn between loyalty to Mother Country and loyalty to colony
Galloway’s Plan of Union
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Suffolk Reserves

9. The Decision for Independence
Taking Charge and Enforcing Policies
Those opposed to British government began to seize control
The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Lexington and Concord – April 1775

10. The Decision for Independence
The Second Continental Congress
Olive Branch Petition
American Prohibitory Act
The Impact of Common Sense
Convinced many that the time had come for American independence

11. The Decision for Independence
Declaring Independence
Enlightenment philosophy
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
“self-evident” truths
“inalienable rights”

12. The Decision for Independence
Declaring Loyalties
Neutrality
Loyalists
African Americans
Pointed out the inconsistencies of the radical position even before the Declaration of Independence
Fewer than 50% of the colonists supported the American side

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