1. The War for Independence
Chapter 4

3. Events that lead to the War
The French and Indian War (1754) created debt for the English.
The British wanted colonists to pay their share.
So they began to enforce taxes that they had never enforced before. (Salutary Neglect)
The colonists won’t be taxed unless represented in parliament.
The British sent troops.

4. Proclamation of 1763
Prevented the colonists from getting lands in the west, won from the French.
The British wanted no problems with the natives.
The British sent troops to enforce it.
The colonists ignored it.

5. Events that led to organization and resistance…
The Stamp Act
The Townsend Acts
The Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
**Lexington and Concord***

6. STAMP ACT
What Was it?
What Happened as a result?

7. The Townshend Acts A direct tax Taxed imported goods
What Was it?
What Happened as a result?
A direct tax
Taxed imported goods
3 penny tax on tea (The most popular drink in the colonies)
People protested “taxation without representation”
Leaders organized a boycott
Women’s groups became involved. “Spinning Bees”
Troops were stationed in the colonies to enforce them.

8. Boston Massacre Colonists taunted British Guards
What Was it?
What Happened as a result?
Colonists taunted British Guards
Guards fired, killing 5.
The King wanted to bring colonists to England for a trial. (Why?)
Colonists formed COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE.
(COMMUNICATION NETWORK)

9. Boston Tea Party
What Was it?
What Happened as a result?
Colonists dumped 18,000 pounds of tea in Boston Harbor.
Passed the Intolerable Acts
Declared Martial Law

10. The Intolerable Acts
What Was it?
What Happened as a result?
Quartering Act: let the British house soldiers in private homes.
Placed Boston under Martial (Military) Law
Closed Boston Harbor
Assembled the First Continental Congress
Created a statement of colonial Rights
They Said: Colonists should use force if the British Do!!!
Minutemen: Stockpiled Arms

11. Lexington and Concord What Was it?
What Happened as a result?
British troops went to Lexington and Concord to get weapons and arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.
70 Minutemen met 700 British troops
The colonists chased the British back to Boston

12. Then…
The Olive Branch Petition- Members of the Second Continental Congress urged the King to restore harmony between England and the Colonies.
The king rejected it and sent a naval blockade.

13. Common Sense by Thomas Paine
A pamphlet arguing for American independence.
Convinced many Americans to support creating their own republic.

14. The Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson in Philadelphia.
Borrowed ideas from John Locke.
“life, liberty and property” became…
“life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.”

15. Key Ideas in the D. of I.
Governments get their power from consent of the governed.
People may abolish governments that threaten their “inalienable rights”.
All men are created equal.

16. Colonist’s choose sides
Patriots
Loyalists
Americans had
developed a
unique identity.

17. by Ben Franklin

18. Chapter 4 Section 3- Battles

19. Valley Forge

20. Saratoga

21. Winning the War
Friedrich von Steuben
Marquis de Lafayette

22. Fighting the War The battles moved to the South. Why?
(The movie “The Patriot”)
The Americans win at Yorktown.
Washington’s sword.
The Treaty of Paris ends the War but…

23. Yorktown

24. Egalitarianism A belief in the equality of all people.
(More of a tendency than a reality.)