3. The Road to Revolution: 1754 -1783
1. The Approaching Conflict
2. The War
3. The End of the Colonial Era in America

4. The Approaching Conflict
A. Anglo-French Rivalries
1. The two countries battle for land in North America at a great expense
2. French & Indian War ( )
a) Final conflict: British win
b) Problems for British
1) Significant financial debt
2) Pontiac’s Rebellion Proclamation of 1763
3) Colonists begin meeting and organizing Albany Plan of Union
(1754)

5. B. Changes Impact the Colonies
1. Parliamentary taxes end salutary neglect
a) Sugar Act (1764)
b) Quartering Act (1765)
c) Stamp Act (1765)
d) Declaratory Act (exercise of Parliament’s authority) (1766)
e) Intolerable Acts (1774)
f) Townsend Acts (1767)
g) “Squeezed It” = SQSD IT
2. Tensions increase and colonists act out
a) Boston Massacre
b) Boston Tea Party
c) Committees of correspondence
d) Boycotts
e) Petitions (Olive Branch Petition)

6. a. Locke (natural rights: life, liberty, property)
C. Ideology of Revolution
1. The ENLIGHTENMENT
a. Locke (natural rights: life, liberty, property)
b. Montesquieu (separation of powers and checks
and balances)
c. Rousseau (social contract/consent of the governed)
2. Key Works
a) Second Treatise on Government
b) “Common Sense”
c) Declaration of Independence

7. D. English Influences
1. Magna Carta (limits the power of ruler)
2. Habeas corpus (protection from unlawful
restraint)
3. English Bill of Rights/Petition of Rights (list
of rights/powers of the citizens)
4. Glorious Revolution (bloodless change in
power)

8. II. The War ( )
A. Continental Congress
1. Initially exercised little leadership
2. Chose Washington as head of military
3. Leadership (Franklin, Washington, Adams, Henry)
4. Stayed in session throughout the war

9. 1. Battle of Saratoga was the turning point
B. French Alliance
1. Battle of Saratoga was the turning point
2. Provided navy and money to the war effort
3. Becomes an entangling alliance for US

10. 1. In essence a civil war Patriots v. Loyalists
C. Impacts on Society
1. In essence a civil war Patriots v. Loyalists
2. African-Americans offered freedom to fight by BOTH the British and the Americans
3. Native Americans help British in hopes of preventing further land expansion by the Americans

11. 2. Decrease in trade due to British occupation of ports
D. Economic Struggles
1. Inflation
2. Decrease in trade due to British occupation of ports
3. Paper money is virtually worthless
E. New Government Developed Articles of Confederation
1. State constitutions provide for separation of powers, voting and office holding guidelines
2. Powers of central government are vague and limited

12. III. The End of the Colonial Era in America
A. Treaty of Paris of 1783
1. Officially ends the war
2. US independence is recognized
3. Western boundary
set at the
Mississippi River
4. Persecution of Loyalists is to end
5. Fishing rights off
coast of Canada granted to US

13. 1. New government is struggling
B. Political Outcomes
1. New government is struggling
2. Problems for government under Articles
a) Congress has no real power
b) Little respect for US on world scene
c) Shays’s Rebellion

14. 2. Paper money issued by Congress and states is worthless
C. Economic Outcomes
1. HUGE debt to France
2. Paper money issued by Congress and states is worthless
D. Social Outcomes
1. Women helped maintain economy and provided supplies and service to the war, yet remain second class citizens
2. Slavery remains intact, even though it is a violation of the ideals of the Revolution
3. Native Americans face continued expansion by American settlers