1. Bellringer Flashback: Why was the Mayflower Compact important?
What was the main cause of the French and Indian War?
How did Pontiac’s Rebellion lead to the Proclamation of 1763?

2. Analyze the causes of the American Revolution
Goal

3. Road to Revolution

4. No Taxation without representation!
England has major debt because of the
French and Indian War
-begins to tax the colonies
Those colonies must pay for the war we fought to protect them!

5. Sugar Act-1764
lowers the tax on molasses to encourage colonists to buy it legally
-sets up special courts for smuggling cases
-allows government officials to search without a warrant

6. Wealthiest person in the 13 colonies
Refused to let the British search his boats for smuggled goods (wonder why ;)

7. Hancock was given a huge fine and taken to court.
These actions in turn prompted mob violence on Boston streets and eventually led to British authorities sending in military forces

8. Song Time!
The Sugar Act

9. Angry Colonists
Colonists argue England can’t tax them because they are not represented in Parliament.

11. Stamp Act 1765
places a tax on all printed materials (newspapers, cards, pamphlets etc)

12. Samuel Adams starts the Sons of Liberty in Boston—a group to fight the “unfair” taxes
Stamp Act-1765

13. Mr. Troublemaker: Samuel Adams

14. Repealing the Stamp Act
Colonists protest
BOYCOTT, burn effigies, tar and feather people, attack tax collectors, refuse to pay the tax
They appeal to Parliament to take the tax away.
  Repealing the Stamp Act

15. Parliament repeals the Stamp Act
BUT declares it has the right to place taxes on the colonies in “all cases whatsoever”
 Declaratory Act-1766

16. Townshend Acts-1767
taxes are on goods the colonies must import—paint, tea, glass, and lead

17. How did the colonies react?
Boycott again
Formed “Daughters of Liberty”

18. Trouble in Boston
1768—Nervous customs officials (people who collect taxes) ask Parliament to send help
-Troops sent

20. The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770
Colonist struck British guard causing more troops to arrive
Colonists threw rocks, snowballs, ice at troops
Troops fired into crowd, killing 5

23. Reaction to the Boston Massacre
Colonial leaders used the killings for propaganda
-Samuel Adams calls it the “Boston Massacre”
John Adams defends Brit soldiers in trial
Boycotts result in all Townshend Acts taxes lifted---except for tea

25. Trial and Verdict Clips
Verdict:

29. You’re Invited! The Boston Tea Party
Three ships arrive in Boston Harbor
The royal governor orders the tea to be unloaded
On December 16, 1773 men dressed as Mohawks and armed with hatchets marched on the wharves
At midnight, they threw over 340 chests of tea overboard

33. Intolerable Acts (a.k.a. Coercive Acts)
Coercive Acts of Colonists called them “Intolerable Acts”
Boston Harbor closed
Town meetings banned; trials held in England
Required colonists to house British soldiers
CAUSED COLONISTS TO RESENT BRITAIN MORE THAN EVER!!!

35. Time Out: Primary Source