1. The Road
to Revolution:
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2. Learning Intention Explain factors that led to American Revolution
Explain ideals of the Revolution

3. Essential Question:
Was the
American Revolution
Justifiable?

4. Stoking the fire…
Sugar Act (1764) – 3 cent tax on foreign refined sugar, other commodities
Stamp Act (1765) – all documents had to bear a British stamp
Stamp Act Congress formed, eventual repeal
Townshend Act (1767) – tax on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
Repealed except for tea

5. Tar and Feathering Public Punishment for the Excise Man, 1774
Popular rendering of the punishment of Commissioner of Custorms John Malcomb being tarred, feathered, and forcibly “paid” with great quantities of tea. Notice the liberty tree in the background.

6. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)
Who looks to be the aggressor?
Why?
What actually happened…
Colonists threw stones at the British
The Brits said they fired on a hostile crowd

7. Committees of Correspondence
Established by Samuel Adams
Communication between leadership groups in most colonies
Warn neighboring colonies about incidents with British
Broaden the resistance movement
This occurred usually in the legislatures or amongst the leaders of the colonies.

8. Tea Act (1773) British East India Co.: Monopoly on Br. tea imports.
Many members of Parl. held shares.
Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!)
Brits expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

9. Boston Tea Party (1773)
Posing as Mohawk indians, 100 or so Massachusetts patriots dumped 342 chests of British Tea into the Atlantic

10. The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774)
Port Bill – closed Boston Harbor until tea was paid for by the col.
Government Act – control Mass. Gov
New Quartering Act – house British Troops
Administration of Justice Act – moved trials of Royal officials out of state
Lord North

11. Proclamation of 1763

12. The Quebec Act (1774)

13. First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act?
All but Georgia participated, they abstained because they wanted British assistance with their Indian problem on the frontier.
1 vote per colony represented.

14. The British Are Coming . . .
Ben Franklin: “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

15. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

16. The Second Continental Congress (1775)
Olive Branch Petition

17. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

18. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

19. Declaration of Independence (1776)

20. Independence Hall

21. Declaration of Independence

22. New National Symbols Notice a difference? Remember me?
Yankee Doodle went to town,
Riding on a pony;
He stuck a feather in his hat,
And called it macaroni