1. Ch. 6: The Road to Revolution 1763-1776

2. 6.1 Tighter British Control
“Poor Old England Endeavoring to
Reclaim his Wicked Children”
6.1 Tighter British Control

3. After French and Indian no more salutary neglect !

4. Britain in debt !!

5. Proclamation of 1763

6. That’s not fair! We fought for that land!!
Proclamation Line of 1763
That’s not fair! We fought for that land!!

7. To enforce, King George III sends Redcoats
Proclamation Line of 1763

8. This is a violation of my rights! Nice place you have here!
Quartering Act – colonists had to house & supply Redcoats
This is a violation of my rights!
Nice place you have here!

9. Britain needs $$ … felt colonies should help - mercantilism!!
Sugar Act taxes sugar and other imports
first direct tax by Parliament
Tax
No Say,
No Pay!
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTION!

10. All paper had to have official stamp
Stamp Act …..
All paper had to have official stamp

11. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTION!
NO SAY,
NO PAY!!

12. The Stamp Act is protested

13. Stamp Act Congress formed
First time colonies united to protest

14. No taxation without representation!!
send petition to King G3
say ONLY colonial assemblies should tax them
No taxation without representation!!

15. boycotts of British goods

16. “Sons of Liberty” protests

17. Burned the stamped paper

18. attacked tax collectors

19. “If this be treason, make the most of it!”
When a fellow member of the House of Burgesses suggested resistance was treason, Patrick Henry exclaimed…
“If this be treason, make the most of it!”
What did he mean?

20. Boycotts worked…. British lost $$$... Stamp Act repealed
Parliament, you’ve got to do something ….these boycotts are killing us!!

21. Declaratory Act
We ARE the boss of you!!
Whatever!

22. COLONIST V. BRITISH

23. Britain still needs $$$

24. Townshend Acts - taxes imports

25. That violates my natural rights!!
Redcoats given writs of assistance
unlimited search warrants
That violates my natural rights!!
You have to let me in your house to look for smuggled goods…I have a writ of assistance!

26. Son’s of Liberty meeting tonight… Be there or be square!
Samuel Adams
leader of Son’s of Liberty organizes protests.
Son’s of Liberty meeting tonight… Be there or be square!

27. Boycotts are back !!

28. leaders call for peaceful protest but….. riots often broke out
Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore Thy hallow'd walks besmear'd with guiltless gore While faithless Preston and his savage bands With murd'rous rancour stretch their bloody hands Like fierce barbarians grinning o'er their prey Approve the carnage and enjoy the day.
leaders call for peaceful protest but…..
riots often broke out
Including the “Boston Massacre”

29. Used as anti-British propaganda!!
Engraving done by Paul Revere
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
Used as anti-British propaganda!!

30. “Boston Massacre” by Alonzo Chappell - 1868

31. Revere’s
1775
Chappell’s
1868

32. Remember, we ARE the boss of you!!
Townshend Acts repealed (thanks to boycotts!!)
Tax left on tea
Townshend Acts
Tea Tax
Remember, we ARE the boss of you!!

33. Samuel Adams - committees of correspondence
exchanged letters on colonial affairs

34. NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTION!
Tea Act – tax on tea…but made the tea cheaper
Colonist STILL mad!
NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTION!
NO SAY,
NO PAY!!

35. Protests !!
“Boston Tea Party”
Son’s of Liberty dressed as Natives and dumped tea into Boston harbor

37. colonial reaction mixed
good way to get Parliament’s attention
destroying property wasn’t right

38. British reaction to the Tea Party would only make things worse for the colonists…

39. 6.3 The Road to
Lexington and Concord
Stand Your Ground Don Troiani

40. “We must master them or totally leave them to themselves…”
After “Tea Party”, British were outraged!!
King G3 said…..
“We must master them or totally leave them to themselves…”

41. Master!!

42. Coercive Acts Intolerable Acts New laws to punish colonists
Colonists called them::
British called them::
Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts

43. force, intimidate, bully
What does coerce mean?
force, intimidate, bully

44. unbearable, unendurable
intolerable?
unbearable, unendurable

45. these acts specifically targeted Boston..

46. closed their port until tea was paid for

47. banned the Committees of Correspondence

48. British stand trial in England
Not Guilty!

49. Colonies joined together to help Boston

50. Has anyone heard from Georgia?
1st Continental Congress to plan protests
Has anyone heard from Georgia?

51. banned ALL trade with Britain

52. began to train troops

53. Prepared to fight - think British will back down

54. Patrick Henry, however, expects war!! --
“…give me liberty or give me death!”

55. Spies were busy on both sides!!

56. British learned Samuel Adams and John Hancock were in Lexington..

57. they also learned that colonists were storing guns & ammo at Concord..

58. British goals : arrest Adams & Hancock at Lexington
to destroy ammunition at Concord

59. The British are coming! Son’s of Liberty were ready!!
Riders warned minutemen ….
Paul Revere
William Dawes
Samuel Prescott
The British are coming!

60. “Listen, my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere….”

62. are first battles of the
Lexington and Concord
are first battles of the
American Revolution

63. British were surprised !
They retreated!!
who fired first?
no one knows!

64. By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard ‘round the world.
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

65. Yeah! That was the sound of change!
Why did Emerson write it was the “shot heard ‘round the world”?
The shot began a war that would change the course of world history
Yeah! That was the sound of change!
Did you hear that?