1. AP US History
Week 6

2. Your Objectives This Week
Read Chapter 5
Complete 2.01 Quiz
Complete 2.02 Writing Assignment

3. The American Revolution
Age of Revolution: began in British North American but spread to other parts of the world including the Caribbean and Latin America. Liberty emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent.

4. Causes of the American Revolution
Colonists were seen as subordinate
Representation- British insisted on “Virtual representation.” Colonists insisted on No taxation without representation
Proclamation of 1763 limited western expansion
Enforcement of the Navigation Acts
Taxation: Sugar Act, Stamp Act (printed material), Currency Act (banned colonists from printing money); Stamp Act was the tipping point***; Tea Act
Townsend Acts: More taxes and regulations on British imports

5. Causes of the American Revolution
The Intolerable Acts- Curtailed town meetings, governor could appoint members to the council, empowered military to lodge soldiers in private homes.

6. Colonial Resistance
Committee of Correspondence: colonial committees throughout the colonies that encouraged colonists to oppose the Sugar and Currency Act
Sons of Liberty: Group that protested and led the boycott of British imports
Daughters of Liberty: Women who made products at home as not to purchase British goods
Boston Tea Party (1773)

7. Ideas and Values Thomas Paine’s Common Sense
American exceptionalism- national identity
Declaration of Independence
Listed colonial grievances
“Unalienable rights”
Liberty became a universal entitlement
Declaration of Independence was echoed by other anti-colonial movements in Caribbean, India, and Latin America. Used in France, Germany, China (1911), and Vietnam (1945)

8. Road to Revolution The Boston Massacre Suffolk Revolution
Continental Congress- 1774
Committees of Safety
War Starts on April
Second Continental Congress May

9. Independence? Elites of MA and VA tended to support the war
Southerners were for war because of The Dunmore Proclamation
Those that feared domestic turmoil were against Independence.

10. Revolutionary War War lasted from 1775-1783 Advantages:
Britain- well trained military was the war was very expensive and became unpopular
Colonists- Defensive War and alliance with France

11. Revolutionary War Lexington and Concord 1775- British Victories
Trenton (NJ) 1776; Princeton (NJ) 1777; Saratoga (NY) All American victories and the turning points of the war
1778- France and Spain allied with America
1780- Low point of the war for America and Fighting in the South
October Cornwallis surrenders
September Treaty of Paris
American independence officially recognized
Gained entire territory between Canada and Flordai, east of the Mississippi
First independent nation in the Western Hemisphere a

12. 2.o1 Transatlantic War Seven Year’s War French and Indian War
Know alliances
Outcome of Seven Years’ War
Proclamation of 1763
Albany Plan
Stamp Act

13. 2.02 Shifting to Independence
Short Answer Questions
Remember
Each answer should be a paragraph
Include support
Reference the source

14. 2.02 Shifting to Independence
Compare and Contrast Thomas Paine and James Chalmers. Both authors offer their stance on the independence movement and Colonial Resistance.
(A)How does each feel about the colonial Independence movement.
(B and C) Think of an idea/event that was anti- British rule, and one idea/event that was pro- British rule

15. Thank You For Coming! Any Questions? See You Next Week!