1. The Road
to Revolution:
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2. Consequences of the GWFE
Less Colonial Dependence on Britain
Colonials have less respect for British military
Colonial Leadership emerges
Britain Faces Debt and Increased Costs of Empire

3. New British Colonial Policy
Better Enforcement of Navigation Acts
New Regulations
New Taxes

4. New British Colonial Policy
Proclamation of 1763
Pontiacs Rebellion
Colonial Reaction

5. Sugar and Stamps The Sugar Act (1764)
The American Revenue Act of
Revision of Molasses Act of
Cut Tax on Foreign Sugar and Molasses
Why??

6. Sugar and Stamps The Stamp Act 1765 Long a stamp tax in Britain
What did it tax
Colonial Newspapers
Legal Documents
Playing cards
Dice

7. The Stamp Act
Announced March 1765
Effective Nov. 1765

8. Colonial Response Immediate Protest Stamp Act Congress
“The Phrase”
Stamp Act Congress
NYC October 1765
Read the Documents

9. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

10. Review Events Since 1763 1763-17701763-1770 End of the Seven Years War
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act (1764)
Stamp Act (1765)
Colonial Resistance
Repeal of Stamp Act (1766)
Declaratory Act

11. The Second Imperial Crisis
Townshend Acts (1767)
External Taxes
New Board of Customs Commissioners in Boston
NY Assembly suspended
Colonial Resistance
No Taxation without ……
Boycott: Sons of Liberty
Tensions with Customs Commissioners

12. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

13. Consequences of Townshend Acts
Colonial Position:
No internal taxes
No external taxes
What Authority Does Parliament Have?, -
Townshend Acts Repealed
Except for tea
Why?

14. The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Providence, RI coast

15. Committees of Correspondence
First in Boston, 1772
Purpose was formulating resistance and informing other colonies
Spread to other colonies as relations worsened

16. Tea Act (1773) British East India Co In financial trouble
Many members of Parliament held shares
Tea Act granted monopoly on distribution of tea in colonies (cheaper tea!
Lord North expected the colonials to eagerly choose the cheaper tea (WRONG!).

17. Boston Tea Party (1773)

18. Tar and Feathering

19. The Coercive (Intolerable)) Acts, 1774
Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Government Act
2nd Quartering Act
Lord North: Colonies want independence!
Administration of Justice Act

20. The Quebec Act (1774)

21. First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
Urged all colonies to send aid to Mass
Adopted the “Suffolk Resolves”
“The Association”
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Meet again in spring

22. First Continental Congress
Denounced the Coercive Acts as intolerable and not to be obeyed .
Renewed nonimportation agreements

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

24. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 19,1775

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

26. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

27. Cause and Effect Tea Act of 1773  Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party  Coercive Acts
Coercive Acts  1st Continental Congress
Coercive Acts  Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord  2nd Continental Congress
2nd Continental Congress  …?

28. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

29. Declaration of Independence (1776)

30. Declaration of Independence

31. Independence Hall

32. New National Symbols