1. The Road
to Revolution:
( )

2. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

5. Salutary Neglect

6. FRENCH A ND INDIAN WAR
7 years war

7. 1754  Albany Plan of Union
Benjamin Franklin’s early attempt to join colonies together.

8. 1754  The First Clash The Ohio Valley British French
Fort Necessity Fort Duquesne * George Washington * Delaware & Shawnee Indians

10. Proclamation of 1763
Settling west of the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden by the British.

11. Sugar Act

12. Currency Act

13. The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Providence, RI coast

14. Committees of Correspondence

15. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

16. Stamp Act

17. Quartering Act

18. Sons of Liberty

19. Tar and Feathering

20. Townshend Acts

21. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

22. Writs of assistance

23. Tea Act

24. Tea Act (1773) British East India Co.: Monopoly on Br. tea imports.
Many members of Parl. held shares.
Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!)
North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

25. Boston Tea Party (1775)

26. Intolerable Acts

27. The Quebec Act (1774)

28. First Continental Congress

29. First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act?
1 vote per colony represented.

30. The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

31. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

32. Second Continental Congress

33. The Second Continental Congress (1775)
Olive Branch Petition

34. John Peter Zenger Case

35. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

36. Common Sense 50 page pamphlet attacking King George III
Independence was our American destiny
Sold 500,000 copies
Got the colonist stirred up!!!

37. Declaration of Independence
July 4th 1776
Written by Thomas Jefferson
Let the British know the American colonies was on their own

38. Declaration of Independence (1776)

39. George Washington
Lead the American Army to victory in the Revolutionary War

40. Military Strategies The Americans The British
Attrition [the Brits had a long supply line].
Guerilla tactics [fight an insurgent war  you don’t have to win a battle, just wear the British down]
Make an alliance with one of Britain’s enemies.
Break the colonies in half by getting between the No. & the So.
Blockade the ports to prevent the flow of goods and supplies from an ally.
“Divide and Conquer”  use the Loyalists.

41. Washington Crossing the Delaware Painted by Emanuel Leutze, 1851

42. Which side would you be on?
Loyalists: People who stayed loyal to the British during the war
Patriots: wanted their independence from Britain

43. Cornwallis’ Surrender at Yorktown:
“The World Turned Upside Down!”
Painted by John Trumbull, 1797

44. Treaty of Paris 1783 Confirmed US independence and set boundaries
Peace treaty

45. North America After the Treaty of Paris, 1783

46. Shays’ Rebellion:
Farmers angry about coming back from war and being in debt because of taxes.
Significance: Made Founding Fathers realize they needed to write some kind of constitution.
What is a constitution?