1. Road to the Revolution, 1763-1776

2. French & Indian War

3. French and Indian War  Three Empires: British, French, Iroquois – What advantages did each have?  GW’s Defeat at Ft. Necessity, 1754  Braddock’s Defeat, 1755  Battle for Quebec (Plains of Abraham), 1759  Peace of Paris, 1763

5. Braddock’s Defeat

6. Soldiers

7. French and Indian War  GW’s Defeat at Ft. Necessity, 1754  Braddock’s Defeat, 1755  Battle for Quebec (Plains of Abraham), 1759  Peace of Paris, 1763  Why did the British win?  Who really won and who really lost?

8. After French & Indian War

9. Pontiac’s Rebellion, 1763

10. Proclamation of 1763

11. Early Mercantilist Issues  Navigation Acts – Indirect, external taxes  Molasses Act, 1733  Sugar Act, 1764 – Internal tax – Writs of Assistance

12. The Stamp Act, 1765  Internal, direct tax  Virginia Resolves  Sons of Liberty  Stamp Act Congress  Repealed in 1766  Declaratory Act, 1766

13. Townshend Duties, 1767  Internal, but indirect tax  Provides salaries for colonial officials  Fails due to smuggling and boycotts  North repeals all except tea in 1770  Committees of Correspondence form in the early 1770s

14. British Imports to the Colonies

15. Boston Massacre, 1770

16. Paul Revere

17. British Imports to the Colonies

18. Boston Tea Party, 1773  Led by Sons of Liberty  Response to the new Tea Act – intended to save the British East India Tea Company and the British colony of India – Allowed BEITCo to bypass a duty in England and actually lowered the price of tea – opposed because it still kept some tea tax – Sons of Liberty destroy tea so that it could not be unloaded and people couldn’t pay the remaining tax

19. Coercive Acts, 1774  Response to Boston Tea Party  AKA Intolerable Acts  Boston Port Act  Mass. Government Act  Administration of Justice Act  New Quartering Act

20. Quebec Act

21. First Continental Congress, 1774

22. Lexington & Concord, 1774  English troops sent to seize arms and supplies.  Revere is arrested for trying to warn minutemen.  British repulsed at Concord.  British suffer 273 casualties from “snipers” on they way back to Boston.  How does this change the conflict?

23. Bunker Hill, 1775  British take over 1,000 casualties in pushing the Continental Army off of Bunker Hill (really Breed’s Hill).  British eventually abandon Boston to Washington’s Continental Army and retreat to Halifax.

24. 2 nd Continental Congresses,1775

25. Declaration of Independence  “When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to …dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another… a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes…”  “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes…”

26. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government…”