1. The Road to Revolution

2. Use your knowledge of the 13 colonies to answer the following questions for both photographs pictured below.What regions are they located in? Describe the geography of each photo and address the type of economy each region would have? 1 2

3. Causes: Britain began to compete with France over the fur trade in the Ohio Valley French and Indian WarFrench and Indian War (1754 – 1763)

5. o Britain gained Canada and all of the French land east of the Mississippi River.  Spain gave up Florida to Britain  England was in DEBT- effect Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763

6. The Proclamation Line of 1763  Colonist felt that England was attempting to control them  England wants to avoid Indian trouble  Colonies were angered over idea that they must pay for cost of war and British troops now

7. Proclamation Line

8. Navigation Acts 1650-1763  Restricted colonial trade, manufacturing and shipping to other countries  Colonists smuggle and disregard Acts

9. Sugar Act 1764  Tax placed on sugar and molasses because colonists are British subjects  Colonist protest and smuggle sugar and molasses

10. Quartering Act 1765  Required colonies to provide British troops with quarters and supplies  Colonial assemblies vote to refuse to supply British soldiers

11. Stamp Act 1765  Any item that was made of paper required a stamped tax payment to be made  Colonists argue “taxation with representation”, Stamp Act is repealed

12. Stamp Act Clip  http://www.yout ube.com/watch? v=uQhNIzSW- wo http://www.yout ube.com/watch? v=uQhNIzSW- wo http://www.yout ube.com/watch? v=uQhNIzSW- wo  1. Why did people protest?  2. How did they protest the Act?

13. Townshend Acts 1767  Tax on glass, lead, paper, paint and tea  Colonist smuggle goods, boycott British goods, and fight with British troops

14. Boston Massacre   The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770.   It was the culmination of civilian-military tensions that had been growing since royal troops first appeared in Massachusetts in October 1768 to enforce the heavy tax burden imposed by the Townshend Acts.

15. Film Clip of Boston Massacre  http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=Ls DY5yywvUk http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=Ls DY5yywvUk http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=Ls DY5yywvUk  After watching clip:  1. What was the riot act?  2. Why did the men shoot?  The courtroom The  http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=Iy rv5emDC1Y http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=Iy rv5emDC1Y http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=Iy rv5emDC1Y  1. What was Adam’s defense?  What was the verdict?

16. Paul Revere’s Drawing   1. What was   The purpose of   the drawing?

17. Tea Act 1773  Tax on tea, it is a plan to bail out East India Tea company through tax on tea  Boston Tea Party and smuggling of tea

18. Boston Tea Party, 1773   To protest the tax on tea, Colonists dresses as Mohawk Indians dumped 342 chests of tea overboard.

19. Boston Tea Party Clip  http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=C wEX_YVyAS4 http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=C wEX_YVyAS4 http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=C wEX_YVyAS4  What happened?  What were the effects?

20. Edenton Tea Party  In December of 1774, Penelope Barker gathered 51 ladies to sign a petition refusing to buy tea in Edenton, NC.  First women’s protest.

21. Intolerable Acts 1774  Response to Tea Party, assembly and town meetings dissolved, port of Boston closed,and British tried in England  Militias form, colonies send representatives to 1st Continental Congress meets and starts colonial boycott