1. Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
The Road
to Revolution:
( )
By: Ms. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

2. Second Continental Congress Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
Quiz
Lexington and Concord
Second Continental Congress
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Acts
Declaration of Independence
Boston Tea Party
Treaty of Paris
Boston Massacre
Sugar and Stamp Act
First Continental Congress
Proclamation Line

3. Treaty of Paris (1763)
Proclamation Line (1763)
Sugar and Stamp Act (1764)
Boston Massacre (1770)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
Intolerable Acts/Coercive Act (Spring 1774)
First Continental Congress (late spring 1774)
Lexington and Concord(Sept 1774)
Second Continental Congress (May 1775)
Declaration of Independence (1776)

4. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

5. George Grenville’s Program, 1763-1765
1. Sugar Act
2. Currency Act
3. Quartering Act
4. Stamp Act

6. Stamp Act Crisis Loyal Nine - 1765
Sons of Liberty – began in NYC: Samuel Adams
Stamp Act Congress – * Stamp Act Resolves due to non importation support
Declaratory Act – 1766

7. Sugar and Stamp Acts 1. Sugar Act (1764) Stamp Act (1765)
a. Tax actually went down!
b. Strictly enforced
c. Smuggling more risky
d. James Otis, Jr. – no taxation w/o representation
e. Boycott of English products/nonimportation
Stamp Act (1765)
- Tax paid on any paper products such as newspapers, papers needed for work, envelops, etc.

8. Townshend Duties Crisis: 1767-1770
1767  William Pitt, P. M. & Charles Townshend, Secretary of the Exchequer.
Shift from paying taxes for Br. war debts & quartering of troops  paying col. govt. salaries.
He diverted revenue collection from internal to external trade.
Tax these imports  paper, paint, lead, glass, tea.
Increase custom officials at American ports  established a Board of Customs in Boston.

9. Colonial Response to the Townshend Duties
1. John Dickinson  * Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.
 2nd non-importation movement: * “Daughters of Liberty” * spinning bees
3. Riots against customs agents: * John Hancock’s ship, the Liberty * 4000 British troops sent to Boston.

10. many colonists began calling people who joined the non-importation
For the first time,
many colonists began calling people
who joined the non-importation
movement,
"patriots!"

11. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

12. Committees of Correspondence
Purpose  warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br  broaden the resistance movement.

13. Tea Act (1773) British East India Co.: Monopoly on Br. tea imports.
Many members of Parl. held shares.
Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!)
North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

14. Boston Tea Party (1773)

15. The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774)
1. Port Bill
2. Government Act
3. New Quartering Act
Lord North
4. Administration of Justice Act

16. First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act?
1 vote per colony represented.

17. The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

18. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

19. The Second Continental Congress (1775)
Olive Branch Petition

20. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

21. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

22. Declaration of Independence (1776)

23. Declaration of Independence

24. Independence Hall

25. New National Symbols