1. Beginnings of Rebellion

2. Alexander Spotswood, Virginia, 1718
France’s Empire
-French Areas of
Colonization
-St. Lawrence River
Valley
-Quebec
-Great Lakes
-Louisiana
-Interested in Trading
Not Colonizing
French build forts to
protect land from
British
-Better Relationship with
Indians
-English Colonists Want
to Expand
“The French have built so many forts that the British settlements almost seem surrounded.”
Alexander Spotswood, Virginia, 1718

3. France’s Empire -Indians resist and ally with French
- Exception: Iroquois
-Old rivalry with Britain
-Multiple wars fought
between French and English
in past centuries
(King William’s War, Queen
Anne’s War, King George’s
War)
-1754 conflict ignites again as
French begin building forts
near Virginia border
Both French and English
claimed land in the Ohio River
Valley

4. French and Indian War -Virginia Government sends George Washington led
militia against the French
- Virginians fire first shots
of French and Indian War
- War goes global and is
known as the Seven
Years War
- French will spread
resources too thin
-The French and Indian allies
won many early battles
- Problems: British
fighting style, split
troops in too many
different locations

5. Benjamin Franklin on the rejection of the Albany Plan of Union
French and Indian War
-Albany Plan of Union
- colonies debate forming
central government
- Plan proposed by Benjamin
Franklin
- Colonies rejected because did
not give enough power and
Britain thought it gave too
much
-Victory at Quebec finally gave
the British control of the region
-turning point of the conflict
-Treaty of Paris, 1763
-France lost all lands in America
east of the Mississippi River
“The crown disapproved it as having too much weight in the democratic part of the constitution, and every assembly as having allowed too much to prerogative; so it was totally rejected.”
Benjamin Franklin on the rejection of the Albany Plan of Union

6. Are you ready for a little revolution?
Tuesday Warm-Up
Grab a sheet from the back and use APPARTS to analyze the primary document from yesterday.’
Are you ready for a little revolution?
“The crown disapproved it as having too much weight in the democratic part of the constitution, and every assembly as having allowed too much to prerogative; so it was totally rejected.”
Benjamin Franklin on the rejection of the Albany Plan of Union

7. French and Indian War Effects of War 1. Increased colonial confidence
2. Shattered idea of British
invincibility
3. Tensions between British
and colonial officers
4. Britain angry at lack of
support from colonists
5. Discovered colonial shared
identity
6. Less colonial relying on
Britain with loss of French
threat
8. Colonists desire to expand
9. TAXES

8. Problems After War -Indians in the Ohio Valley revolt
against British forts
- Pontiac’s Rebellion
-Conflicts were becoming costly for
Britain
-Proclamation of 1763
Stated that colonists could not
cross the Appalachian Mountains
-Colonists ignored the law and
continued to provoke Indians

9. Tensions Build -British heavily in debt because of war
-Standing British Army in
the colonies
-Trading restrictions
established to levy duties
(taxes) on certain products
-Smugglers avoid paying
taxes
-Writs of Assistance
Allowed British officials to
search anywhere for
smuggled goods

10. Tensions Build -Sugar Act (1764) affected merchants and traders
- Taxed imported molasses and
increased smuggling penalty
- Established a court where
prosecutors could charge
accused without a jury
-Protests began against taxation
without representation
- James Otis
Developed phrase
“What will future generations think of us? The trade of the whole continent is taxed by Parliament. Stamps and other internal duties and taxes are discussed. But there is not one petition to the king and Parliament urging the ending of these injustices……”
James Otis, 1764

11. Stamp Act -Parliament passes Stamp Act, 1765 -placed a direct tax on
the colonists
-required stamp on all
legal documents,
newspapers, license, and
cards
-affected many colonists
rich and poor
-Quartering Act, 1765
- Required colonists to
provide housing and
supplies for the British
troops

12. Resistance Boston Samuel Adams John Adams - Stood up for colonists
-Sons of Liberty
Boston
Samuel Adams
John Adams
- Stood up for colonists
- Intimidated tax agents
-No taxation w/o representation
Stamp Act Congress held in New
York concluding that only elected
colonial representatives had the
right to approve taxes
-Protests and boycotts were
organized
-Stamp agents were harassed
Tarred and Feathered
-Law eventually repealed

13. Demonstrations Against the Stamp Act
From Halifax in the North to Savannah in the South, popular demonstrations against the Stamp Act forced the resignation of British tax officials. The propaganda of 1765 even reached the breakfast table, emblazoned on teapots.

15. Townshend Acts, 1767 -New tax placed on imports such
as tea, glass, paper, paint
-Colonists again reacted with
protests
-British reacted by sending more
troops
“The British government in all future generations may be sure that the American colonies will never try to leave Britain’s rule unless driven to it as the last desperate action against oppression. It will be an oppression that will make the wisest person mad and the weakest person strong…”
James Otis, 1764

16. Wednesday Warm-Up
Using the Following words, construct a narrative in about a paragraph
Proclamation line of 1763
Stamp Act
James Otis (his phrase)
Tar and Feather

17. Boston Massacre -March 1770 -Protests by colonists
-British troops fire on crowd
-5 colonists killed
Crispus Attucks
-Most soldiers found not guilty
John Adams served as attorney for
the soldiers

18. African American killed in the Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
African American killed in the Boston Massacre

19. Committees of Correspondence
Groups of colonists that regularly
exchanged letters about
suspicious or potentially
threatening British activities
Founded by Samuel Adams in
1772
Instrumental in the sinking of the
Gaspee
- British custom ship successful
in catching smugglers
- Burned by colonists in 1772
Customs ships continued to patrol the sea off the coast of America. They would regularly stop merchant ships to examine their cargo looking for illegal goods, and enforcing British customs and taxation laws. The Gaspee was a British Royal Navy ship assigned to customs duty.
On June 9, 1772, the Gaspee was chasing a merchant ship believed to be smuggling goods. The Gaspee ran aground in Narragansett Bay, near Providence. The next night, a group of men boarded the Gaspee. They wounded the lieutenant who was commanding the ship, and set the ship on fire.
The British ordered a full investigation. They offered a reward to anyone identifying the people responsible. No one came forward, and no one was ever charged for the offence