1. The Road To Revolution 1763-1775
The Albany Plan
Seven Years War/French and Indian War
Great Britain Dominant Power
Colonial View
British View

2. Proclamation of 1763 New Vision of Destiny –Colonist British
Stage set for conflict

3. Victory In The Seven Years War
Differing Views
Troops
Trade-Mercantile System/Navigation Acts
Emerging sense of Political Identity

4. Roots of Resistance
Old World v. New World in Gov’t/Political thinking.
Nationalism
Classical Republicanism
Radical Whigs

5. Friction!!! Stamp Tax----PM George Grenville Sugar Act 1764
Quartering Act 1765
Taxation w/o representation—”virtual representation

6. Repeal Repeal of the Stamp Act
The Stamp Act Congress----Sons of Liberty
Declaratory Act 1766
Townshed Act 1767
REVOLT
-Quartering Act & Non-Compliance
March Crispus Attucks
BOSTON MASSACRE

7. REACTION King George III Lord North Committees of Correspondence
Tea Brewing!
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts 1774
More Insult----Quebec Act

8. Continental Congress First Continental Congress Sept 5-Oct. 26 1774
Declaration of Rights 1775
Meet again??????

9. The Shot Heard ‘Round the World
Lexington
Concord
Minutemen
Hessians

10. Americans/Colonist at War
Advantages
Disadvantages
THE Second Continental Congress
George Washington
Fort Ticonderoga/Crown Point
Bunker Hill
King declares “Colonies in open rebellion”

11. Politics Thomas Paine “Common Sense” Paine and Republicanism
Richard Henry Lee
Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of Independence
Patriots---Whigs
Loyalist---Tories
Typical Patriots