1. Then stack them on Your Table
Kick-Off
Take out your essays from last night
Box the Claims
Circle you Evidence
Underline your Explanations
Then stack them on
Your Table

2. The Causes of the American Revolution 1763-1776
Declaration of
Independence
French &
Indian War
Political Reasons
Economic Reasons
Social Changes
The Causes of the American Revolution

3. Main Topics Economic Reasons Social Changes Political Reasons
Geography
Political Reasons
Economic Reasons
Social Changes
Long Term Causes

4. Long Term Effects Enlightenment Mayflower Compact & House of Burgesses
Colonists got a taste of self-government
Enlightenment
Consent of the Governed

5. Geography
Proclamation of 1763—prohibited (did not allow) the colonists to cross the Appalachian Mtns and settle.

6. A Native American War for
Geography
Pontiac’s
War
A Native American War for
Freedom

7. Political Reasons End of Salutary Neglect (1763)
King George III sends 10,000 troops to the colonies
KG3 enforces his rules
Writs of Assistance (1763)
Part of the Stamp Act
Allowed officers to search almost anywhere for smothered goods

8. Political Reasons
Quartering Act (1765)--Colonists must provide housing and food for British Soldiers.
Declaratory Act (1766)—Britain has the right to rule and tax the colonies “in all cases”
Coercive Acts (1774)aka Intolerable Acts
Punishment for Boston Tea Party
Banned Town Meetings
Closed Boston Harbor

9. Economic Reasons Great Britain needed REVENUE
Pay for troops in America and debts from F&I War
Sugar Act (1764)—it lowered the cost of molasses (sugar) BUT allowed officers to SEIZE any goods they thought were smuggled from the accused without going to court.

10. Economic Reasons Stamp Act (1765)—tax on almost all printed goods.
Townshend Acts (1767)—taxed imported goods like tea, glass, and paper before they were brought inside the colonies.

11. DEBT PER PERSON 1 x 18 = $18/person 17 x $20 = $340/person
In Great Britain
17 x $20 =
$340/person
In the Colonies
1 x 18 =
$18/person

12. Social Changes
Common Sense (1775)— by Thomas Paine. A no nonsense book explaining why the colonies should leave.
1st Continental Congress (1774)
Determined a British attack on one colony would be like a British Attack on all colonies.

13. Social Changes
Sons & Daughters of Liberty organized active resistance in the form of BOYCOTTS, including the Boston Tea Party
Committee of Correspondence 1772—wrote letters through the colonies bringing together protesters.

14. Social Changes
Boston Massacre 1770—a fight between angry colonists and British soldiers where 5 colonists get killed.
Paul Revere turned it into PROPAGANDA