1. The Seeds of Unrest
Mr. Moyer
Chap 4 sec 1,2,3 & 4

2. Pontiac’s Rebellion

3. Terms Sugar Act – imposed a duty or import tax, on foreign sugar
Stamp Act – levied a tax on printed material
Sugar and stamp acts – increased colonial resentment
Parliament - served as the British governing body

4. Colonial Response to the Stamp Act
The nonimportation agreement – not to buy or import British goods
Protest against it
Sons of Liberty – relied on pamphlets, petitions & public meetings
Stamp act Congress - delegates from nine colonies met in 10/1765 voice their objections

5. Boston Massacre 1767 – Parliament passes the Townsend Acts
1768 – Gage dispatches British troops to Boston
March 5, 1770 – the Boston massacre takes place.

6. The Shot Heard Round the World
Why Colonists staged the Boston Tea Party
Passage of the tea act
Colonial protests
Tea party itself

7. Parliament
Intolerable Acts – strengthen British control over the colonies. Four laws that would punish Boston and Mass.
Reaction – colonists sent food to Mass. And denounced King George III

8. First Continental Congress
Discussion of grievances against King George III
Assertion of rights as British subjects
Expression of loyalty to the crown

9. Battles of Lexington and Concord

10. Battles of Lexington and Concord
1774 – Intolerable Acts – anger colonists leading to First Continental Congress
George III’s order to Cage in response to the First Continental Congress
1775- George III’s decision to seize rebel arms in response to the First Continental Congress
April 19, 1775 – Battle of Lexington – Shot heard round the world
British troops enter Lexington and then the Battle of Concord

11. Second Continental Congress
Actions taken against Britain
- creating an army
- giving army command to George Washington
- fighting the Battle of Boston – “Don’t one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes”
- sending a final plea to George III (olive branch petition)

12. Independence Declared
Declaration of Independence
- king George III’s misdeeds
- established the doctrine of unalienable rights
- declared that people have the right to abolish a government that deprives them of those rights

14. Revolutionary War Problems the Continental Army Faced
- lacked important supplies
- faced harsh weather
- battled disease
- shortage of enlistments

15. Roles in the War
African Americans – Fought for both British and Patriots to earn their Freedom
American Indians – fought on both sides and that the war resulted in a split in the Iroquois League
Women – supported the war effort as some women fought, others served as spies and messengers, others worked as cooks, laundresses, or nurses and others distributed medical supplies, made uniforms, & helped manufacture bullets

16. *first major offensive
An American Victory
Importance
*first major offensive
Attack
*raised American
Morale
Battle of
Trenton
Importance
*encouraged European
Countries to become
Allies
*raised American
Morale
Battle of
Saratoga

17. Saratoga Turning Point in the war France secretly aiding the Patriots
Gold, naval support, supplies and troops
France declared war on Britain and then Spain joined France

18. Military Strategies
Small detachment of troops: Gave speed and flexibility
Small scale attacks: attack more places
Guerrilla warfare techniques: take advantage of local geography and to destabilize the British

19. Treaty of Paris Granted the United States Independence
Transferred land from the Atlantic Coast westward to the Mississippi River & from the Great Lakes south to Florida
Declared Americans should pay any debts owed to the British