1. A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations
USHC 1.2
Analyze… the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.
The Causes of the American Revolution

3. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and... that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…

4. Salutary Neglect

5. The French and Indian War

6. Wars Cost Money

7. British National Debt
Following the French and Indian War

8. Cost of Quartering Troops
in the colonies

9. NO MORE
Salutary Neglect

10. Proclamation Line of 1763

11. Parliament Taxes the Colonies
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Townshend Acts (1767)

12. Smuggling
A Serious Problem
Photo Credit: Mary Harrsch

13. IMPORT Tax on Foreign Sugar
The Sugar Act
1764
IMPORT Tax on Foreign Sugar
ADMIRALTY COURTS
Jury Trials

14. INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
The Stamp Act
1765
INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
MASS RESISTANCE
Boycotts
Mob Violence

15. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

16. HERE HERE Taxing Authority
NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament, where their representatives could have been outnumbered. They believed that only their representatives in their own colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.

17. Resistance Movement(s)
Sons of Liberty
Resistance Movement(s)
Intimidation
Mass Protests

18. Reduced dependence on British textiles
Daughters of Liberty
Homespun Fabric
Reduced dependence on British textiles

20. INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
The Stamp Act
1765
INTERNAL Tax on legal documents
REPEALED
MASS RESISTANCE
Boycotts
Mob Violence

21. Parliament’s Not Done

22. Townshend Acts
1767
Tax on Imports

23. These Guys Again

24. More of
These Guys

25. Confrontation between British Troops and a Rowdy Mob
Boston Massacre
1770

27. NOT GUILTY

28. Townshend Acts
With one exception...
1767
Tax on Imports
REPEALED

29. Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that we can’t!

30. The Coast is Clear?
Photo Credit: Wendell

31. Leading to the Revolution
The Chain of Events
Leading to the Revolution
Tea Act
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
Lexington & Concord
Photo Credit: Darwin Bell

32. Parliament Grants a Monopoly to a British Company
The Tea Act
1773
Photo Credit: John-Morgan

33. Boston Tea Party
1773

34. Intolerable Acts
1774
MARTIAL LAW

35. Intolerable Acts 1774 Boston Port Act Quartering Act Quebec Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Quartering Act
Administration of Justice Act
Quebec Act

36. The Minuteman
Photo Credit : Jeanette Runyon

37. The Minuteman
Photo Credit: Rachel Ford James

38. OBJECTIVE: Seize the Arsenal
Lexington & Concord
1775
OBJECTIVE: Seize the Arsenal

39. THE SHOT heard ‘round the world Artist: Don Troiani
Image Courtesy of The National Guard

40. The Old North Bridge
Photo credit: herzogbr

41. Lexington & Concord
1775
The British Retreat

42. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies...The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.