1. American Revolutionary War Unit
From Protest to War
American Revolutionary War Unit

2. French & Indian War Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
War for dominance in North American continent
French, English, Spain
France held lands west of Appalachian Mts and in Canada
British won!
Britain gains territory, especially west of Appalachian Mts.
Britain is in Debt!

3. Proclamation of 1763 Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Britain denies colonists right to settled beyond the Appalachian Mts.
Lands for Native Americans instead
Colonists protest!
Colonists lose investments in lands to the west of the mountains

4. Sugar Act Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Enforced and extended duty (tax) on sugar, molasses
Colonists protest!
Making rum is more expensive
Will lay the ground for further protest with the Stamp Act

5. Navigation Acts Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
British enforced Navigation Acts:
Use of English ships, ports for trade from colonies
Colonists protest!
Difficult to smuggle goods
Eventually raises issues of:
Standing Army in the colonies
Writs of Assistance

6. Salutary Neglect Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Define salutary
Britain ignored its colonies, but the colonies were happy to handle certain government issues for themselves
Colonies were used to some level of self- government
Difficult for Britain to enforce rules now that had not been enforced for years

7. Stamp Act Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Duty (tax) on paper goods by British Parliament
Colonists protest!
Taxation without representation
Unifies colonists against the British government’s acts
Sons of Liberty formed
Patrick Henry’s Treason Speech

8. Protest
How has protest changed among the colonists since the end of the French and Indian War?
(Hint: How did colonists protest against the Proclamation of 1763, the Sugar Act, and the Navigation Acts? What did the protest look like for the Stamp Act?)

9. Boston Massacre Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Colonists provoke and attack British soldiers in Boston
Throw rocks, ice balls
British soldiers fire on mob
Kill colonists
Propaganda for colonial leaders

10. Boston Tea Party Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Britain helped out the East India Co. by giving them a monopoly on the importation of tea to the colonies
Britain put a duty on this tea
Price of tea actually lower than what colonists were paying
Colonists still protest against taxation without representation
Protest against avoiding the middle man—the colonial shopkeeper
Destruction of tea by dumping cargo into the sea

11. Boston Tea Party Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Britain imposes the Coercive Acts
It closes the port of Boston
Colonists must pay for destroyed tea
Colonists protest by calling them the Intolerable Acts
Form the First Continental Congress

12. First Continental Congress
Description/Explanation
Impact/Significance
Formed by Colonists
Aim: To work together to have Parliament rescind the Intolerable Acts
Boycotting English imports
Open Communication
Colonies unite against common cause

13. Patrick Henry Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
“Give me liberty or give me death” speech
Leads colonists towards idea of independence from Britain

14. Lexington and Concord Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Skirmish between colonists, minutemen, and British Regulars (Redcoats)
Shot heard round the world
Start of American Revolutionary War

15. Warm up: Oct. 25
What is meant by the phrase “the shot heard round the world”?
Put the following in order, beginning with the earliest event first.
Coersive Acts
Proclamation of 1763
Boston Tea Party
Stamp Act

16. Thomas Paine Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Wrote Common Sense
Provides colonists with a logical reason for independence from Britain
Pamphlet lists grievances against Britain—basis for those adopted in Declaration of Independence

17. Thomas Paine Read the excerpt provided from Common Sense.
What passages are particularly persuasive? Why?
What are two arguments Paine makes for independence?

18. Richard Henry Lee Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
“These United colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states.”
Convinces enough delegates to sign the Declaration of Independence

19. John Locke Description/Explanation Impact/Significance
Enlightenment Philosopher
Remember, Locke’s ideas were very radical for the time
His ideas greatly influenced the ideas of gov’t in America
Ideas about sovereignty and rights of the people challenged the prevailing ideas about the power (dictatorial rule) of kings, emperors, and other tribal chieftains

20. John Locke
All people are free, equal and have “natural rights” to life, liberty, and property that rulers cannot take away
Where does this idea almost exactly appear in an American document?

21. John Locke All original power resides in the people
They consent to enter into a “social contract” among themselves to form a gov’t to protect their rights
In return, the people will obey the laws and rules established by that gov’t
This establishes a system of “ordered liberty”

22. John Locke
Explain how the social contract theory establishes “ordered liberty.”
(How is gov’t still ordered, or regulated? How do people still retain their liberties among such laws?)

23. John Locke
Government’s powers are limited to those the people have consented to give it
Whenever gov’t becomes a threat to the people’s natural rights, it breaks the social contract
Then, the people have the right to alter or overthrow it.

24. John Locke
How is the previous idea reflected in the Declaration of Indedependence?

25. John Locke
Remember, Locke is not a contemporary of the this time period—the American Revolutionary War
He is not alive at this time

26. Declaration of Independence
Authors
Thomas Jefferson,
(main author)
Ben Franklin,
John Adams,
Robert Livingston,
Roger Sherman

27. Declaration of Independence
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Influenced by John Locke

28. Declaration of Independence
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government…”
Influenced by John Locke