1. CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

2. Proclamation of 1763 Colonist can’t move West
Enforced – 10,000 soldiers

3. Stamp Act Tax by British Commercial & legal documents
Seal to prove payment

4. Sons of Liberty Secret Society after Stamp Acts
Organized to go against the British (anger)

5. Boston Massacre Increase of tension & violence
No one knows who started the violence
Encouraged independence
Paul Revere – engraving to prove the British were tyrants

6. Tea Act Tax on tea – help British economy
British East India Company – monopoly on import & sale of tea

7. Boston Tea Party Response to Tea Act Destroyed cargo on British ships
Boston, MA
Protest laws

8. Intolerable Acts In response to the Boston Tea Party Punish Boston
British Parliament passed the “Intolerable Acts”
Closed the port of Boston
Colonies sent supplies (food & money)

9. Details – Intolerable Acts
Banned town meetings in Massachusetts
Replaced elected councils with appointed ones
Increased British Governor’s power
British officials could not be tried in colonial courts
Forced the colonists to house British soldiers in their homes

10. Thomas Paine Common Sense, argues for American independence.
Pamphlet-support going to war

11. Thomas Jefferson Considered 1 of the Founding Fathers of the U.S.
Central role - drafting the Declaration of Independence.

12. Declaration of Independence
Declares human rights “all men are created equal”
List grievances – King George III
Announced - no longer under British rule (independence)

13. King George III Hero in Great Britain. To the colonies-evil tyrant.
Reforms to tighten control of the colonies.
The King & Parliament, passed many laws/taxes without colonists representation.