1. ROAD TO REVOLUTION
SHORT-TERM CAUSES

2. CONCEPT
Poor leadership
Poor colonial policy
Lack of knowledge/understanding

3. Led to Proclamation line of 1763
PONTIAC’S REBELLION
Chief Pontiac
Launches a surprise attack Reaction to westward settlement
Led to Proclamation line of 1763

4. Proclamation Line of 1763
Limited settlement to east of the Appalachian Mountains
Why did it anger colonists?

5. SUGAR ACT OF 1764 Passed to raise revenue Tightens enforcement
Added to Enumerated Articles
Effects
Hurt sugar and lumber trade
Taxation w/o Representation
Colonists launch boycott

6. Stamp Act 1765 Raises revenue
Tax on newspapers, pamphlets, legal documents, cards
Affected most powerful/influential colonists

7. Stamp Act 1765 Effects 1766 – Stamp Act repealed Sons of Liberty
Stamp Act Congress- ALL 13 colonies
Non-importation agreements
“Declaration of Rights and Grievances”
1766 – Stamp Act repealed
Declaration of Rights and Grievances” – loyal to the Crown, but no taxation w/o representation. This meant only the colonial legislatures could tax

8. Tar and Feathering

9. DECLARATORY ACT Reaffirmed England’s authority over the colonies
Tempered colonial sense of victory over Stamp Act

10. Townshend Acts 1767)
Suspended/dissolved some colonial assemblies (NY, PA, VA)
writs of assistance
New taxes on imports
Ended “power of the purse”
Tea, paper, paints and lead
Taxes would pay governor’s salary

11. Townshend Acts 1767 Colonial Reaction Repealed taxes – except tea tax
The Virginia Resolves
No taxation without representation
Additional non-importation agreements
Repealed taxes – except tea tax

12. BOSTON MASSACRE MARCH 5, 1770
Troops stationed in colonies = competition
Effect
It became a rallying cry

13. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

14. TEA ACT - 1773 Monopoly East India Company Angered tea merchants
Effect
Boston Tea Party – Dec 16, 1773

15. Boston Tea Party (1773)

16. INTOLERABLE ACTS (1774) (Coercive Acts)
Punish Boston for Tea Party
Closed the port of Boston
Ended self-government
in MA

17. Harsh Quartering Act passed Martial law in Boston Effects
INTOLERABLE ACTS (1774)
Harsh Quartering Act passed
Martial law in Boston
Effects
Led to colonial unity NOT submission

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

19. FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
Actions
Suffolk Resolves
Raise troops
Denounce British policy
Suspend trade
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Agreed to meet again

20. LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
Arrest rebel leaders destroy munitions at Concord
Confrontation at Lexington
Effects
Moderates took a position

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

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

23. Second Continental Congress
May 1775
13 colonies represented
Established the Continental Army
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
Olive Branch Petition

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

25. Second Continental Congress
Effect
Dismissed by George III
Declared colonists rebels
Banned trade with the colonies
Began to hire Hessians

26. The End