1. U.S. History
Summer School

2. Loyalty leads to Rebellion
Stamp Act 1765
First Tax levied directly against the Colonies
Sons of Liberty organized to oppose
“No Taxation Without Representation”
Repealed 1766
Townshend Acts
Tax on lead, paper, tea, paint, and glass.
Creates customs commission

3. Tensions rise Boston Massacre – 1770 Tea Act 1773
4 colonists are shot by British soldiers who were attacked by colonists.
British claimed they were fired upon.
Outrage grows through colonies
Tea Act 1773
All parts of Townshend Acts removed except the tax on Tea.
Boston Tea Party

4. Punishment Intolerable Acts 1774 First Continental Congress
Closed Boston harbor
Boston had to pay for destroyed tea
Quartering Act
First Continental Congress
All colonies send delegates to Philadelphia to decide how to react to British “tyranny”
Olive Branch Petition
Expressed loyalty and asked the king to help find a solution all sides could agree with.

5. Second Continental Congress
November 1775
After Lexington and Concord
King refuses Olive Branch Petition
Delegates decide to form Continental Army and form committee to draft Declaration of Independence
George Washington Commander
Ben Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
Return in June of 1776
Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

6. Battles of the American Revolution
1775 – Lexington and Concord
1775 – Bunker Hill
1777 – Saratoga
1780 – Kings Mt.
1781 – Yorktown

7. War Ends Treaty of Paris (1783) Britain recognizes the U.S.
Northern and western border set
Mississippi River trade will forever be open to British citizens.
Florida back to Spain
Remaining British troops removed
Rights and properties of American loyalists restored.

8. Now What? Articles of Confederation 1777
First Government of New Country
Had little Power
No power to tax
No power to regulate trade between colonies
All agreed we needed something better.
But What?

9. Constitutional Convention
Philadelphia, May 1787
Two Main groups
Those wanting to fix Articles of Confed.
Those wanting to create something new
Problem – Convention only had power to fix Articles.
They decided - so what!

10. Constitutional Convention
Two plans emerge
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Favored the large states
Bi-Cameral legislature
Power to Veto State laws
Representation based on population

11. Constitutional Convention
New Jersey Plan
Favored by smaller States
Unicameral legislature
All states have one vote
Power to tax and regulate commerce
Created Executive and Judicial branches
Aimed at keeping state governments more powerful than Federal.

12. The Compromises’ The Great Compromise The Three-Fifths Compromise
Legislature and powers were agreed upon what they are today.
The Three-Fifths Compromise
Slaves would count as 3/5ths of a man to increase the population and representation of Southern States.