1. Colonial Resistance and Rebellion Chapter 2.1

2. Review Mercantilism French and Indian War Proclamation of 1763
Navigation Act
French and Indian War
Proclamation of 1763

3. Tensions Rise During the French and Indian War
Britain's national debt doubles
1761 Writ of Assistance.
General search warrant allowing British officials to search colonial ships and buildings for smuggled goods.
Most colonists worked from their homes.

4. Sugar Act of 1774 Stop smuggling
Violators will be tried in vice-admiralty courts.

5. Stamp Act of 1765
Pay to have a stamp on any document and printed item.
Wills, newspapers, and playing cards
Affected colonists directly
March, 1765 Stamp Act repealed.

6. Sons of Liberty Sons of Liberty
Formed October 1765 in NY, Philadelphia, and Boston
Some of their leaders included Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere.

8. Samuel Adams

9. Townshend Acts of 1767
Taxed all goods that were imported into the colony from Britain.
Lead, glass, paint, and paper.
Tea?
Sons of Liberty led another boycott.
Too expensive to enforce!
Raised 295 pounds in taxes.
Cost 170,000 to enforce.

10. Tea Act of 1773 East India Company almost bankrupt.
Lord North Grants the company the right to sell tea to colonist free of tax.
Colonial tea seller were still charged tax.
Cut colonial tea merchants out of trade.
Lord North assumed colonist would just go along with the cheaper tea.
WRONG!

11. Boston Massacre and Boston Tea Party
March 5, 1770 a mob is fired on outside of the Boston Custom House
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty
dump 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor.

16. Intolerable Acts 1774 King George III was furious
Quartering Act: Troops live in Colonial homes
General Thomas Gage closes Boston harbor puts the city under Martial Law
Response: First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia.

17. Lexington and Concord
700 British troops leave Boston and head for Concord.
Led By General Thomas Gage
Sent to seize stockpiled firearms and gunpowder in Concord
Dawn April 19, 1775 Troops reached Lexington (5mi. From Concord)
Paul Revere.

18. The Battle of Bunker Hill
May 1775 Second Continental Congress
George Washington
June 17, 1775 the British send 2,400 troops to take “Bunker Hill”
Colonist 450 dead
British 1,000 dead

19. John Locke
Life
Liberty
And property
“the pursuit of
happiness”

20. Thomas Paine
Common Sense

21. Declaration Of Independence
June 7, 1776 Continental Congress agrees to brake from Britain
Thomas Jefferson is asked to prepare the final draft
July 4, 1776 Congress adopted the Declaration of Intemperance