1. American Revolution
Turn in APPARTS!!!!

2. British Problems in the Colonies
After French & Indian War:
Heavy debts
Sugar Act, Stamp Act, etc.
Relations with Native Americans
Proclamation of 1763

3. Colonial and British Response
Boycotts of British goods
Bloody Massacre (Boston Massacre) – March 5, 1770
Called Boston Riot by British
5 men killed
Paul Revere – Propaganda???
John Adams defends troops (6 innocent, 2 guilty

4. The Boston Massacre

5. Discuss with your partner…(90 Seconds)
To what degree did Paul Revere use Propaganda in creating his drawing & title for the events on March 5th 1770?
Your answer…

6. Tea Act (1773)
Monopoly for importing tea granted to British East India Company - Boston Tea Party

7. Intolerable Acts (1774) Boston put under martial law
General Thomas Gage
Port of Boston closed
Quartering Act

8. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

9. Declaration of Independence (1776)
Popular Sovereignty

10. Discuss with your partner… (90 Seconds)
How are the ideas of Thomas Paine (Common Sense) & the Declaration of Independence different from those of Thomas Hobbes (Leviathan)?

11. Saratoga: the “Turning Point”
France enters the war

12. British Surrender at Yorktown

13. Surrender @ Yorktown Yorktown, Virginia – October 17th, 1781
Cornwallis refuses to give sword to Washington
British band plays “The World Turned Upside Down”

14. Setting up a New Government
Treaty of Paris ends war
Unconditional independence
U.S. promises to repay prewar debts
Returns land to loyalists
Articles of Confederation – Gave states too much power but…
Created the most democratic government of the era!

15. North America After the Treaty of Paris