1. The Road to Revolution

2. Vocabulary delegate- quarter- proclamation- petition-
Parliament- independence-
treason- resolution-
representation- declaration-
repeal- preamble-
boycott- grievance-
blockade-

3. Important People Thomas Jefferson George Washington Paul Revere
Samuel Adams

4. Important People John Hancock Patrick Henry Mercy Otis Warren
King George
Thomas Paine

5. The French and Indian War
In the 1750s, France and Britain were fighting in Europe. The war was now spreading to North America. British Colonists wanted to take over French land in North America. The British wanted to take over the fur trade in the French held territory.

6. British soldiers fought against French soldiers
and Native Americans. Native Americans joined in the battle against the British because they were afraid the British would take over their land.

7. In the Peace Treaty of 1763 the British got most of the French land in North America. Also as a result of the war, the British began taxing the colonists to pay for the war.

8. The Proclamation of 1763

9. Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III after the end of the French and Indian War. It forbade settlers from settling past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. The purpose of the proclamation was to organize Great Britain's new North American empire and to stabilize relations with Native Americans through regulation of trade, settlement, and land purchases on the western frontier.

10. Sugar Act 1764
Tax placed on sugar and molasses because colonists are British subjects
Colonist protest and smuggle sugar and molasses

11. Quartering Act 1765
Required colonies to provide British troops with quarters and supplies
Colonial assemblies vote to refuse to supply British soldiers

12. Stamp Act 1765
Any item that was made of paper required a stamped tax payment to be made
Colonists argue “taxation without representation”
Stamp Act is repealed

13. Townshend Acts 1767 Tax on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea
Colonist smuggle goods, boycott British goods, and fight with British troops

14. The Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770 including Crispus Attucks. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets.

16. Committee of Correspondence
In 1772 the Sons of Liberty in Boston formed a Committee of Correspondence to publicize complaints against the British, This encouraged a feeling of unity amongst the colonists.

17. Tea Act 1773
Tax on tea is a plan to bail out East India Tea company through tax on tea
Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty sent a message to the governor of Massachusetts, demanding that British ships carrying tea leave the harbor
Resulted in the Boston Tea Party

18. Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773
Colonists were required to buy their tea from the East India Tea Company
Company ships docked in Boston Harbor
Sons of Liberty dressed up like Mohawk Indians and threw 300 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

19. Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) 1774
Response to Tea Party
Colonial assembly and town meetings dissolved
port of Boston closed
British tried in England
Soldiers quartered in colonist’s homes
Colonist sent representatives to the 1st Continental Congress

20. 1st Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a convention of delegates from all thirteen colonies except for Georgia met on September 5, 1774, at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was called in response to the passage Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament. The Intolerable Acts had punished Boston for the Boston Tea Party.

21. The Congress was attended by 56 members appointed by the legislatures of twelve of the colonies, the exception being Georgia.
The Congress met briefly to consider options, including an economic boycott of British trade; rights and grievances; and petitioned King George III for redress of those grievances.

23. Battles of Lexington and Concord
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. The battles were fought on April 19, 1775.

24. Second Continental Congress
The Congress met on May 10, 1775, in the State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is now called Independence Hall.
Some of those new and returning delegates included Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and the new president of the Continental Congress, John Hancock.
The Second Continental Congress decided many important things. At the Congress, they decided to completely break away from Great Britain. On May 15, 1776, they decided to officially put the colonies in a state of defense.

25. It decided some of the most important ideas that the colonists fought for in the Revolutionary War, because, at that meeting, members of the Second Continental Congress wrote and signed The Declaration of Independence.
At the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock wrote his name first and biggest on the Declaration of Independence. He said, "The British ministry can read that name without spectacles; let them double their reward." He was talking about the reward offered by King George III that was to be given to anyone who could capture one of the Sons of Liberty, especially Samuel Adams and John Hancock.

26. The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with Great Britain, regarded themselves as independent states, and no longer a part of the British Empire.

28. Monarchy vs. Representative Government
In a monarchy the governing power lies with a king and those that he appoints to office
Parliament was the lawmaking body in England
Citizens elect their own representatives who will represent them in government
People create their government and have the right to make changes when they see fit (laws, elections)