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

2. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

3. New Revenues & Regulations
Sugar Act (Revenue Act 1764)
Duties to stop smugglers
Quartering Act
Stamp Act 1765 (Lord George Grenville) – all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and advertisements
1st Direct Tax imposed on citizens

4. Patrick Henry, “No taxation without…”
James Otis – Stamp Act Congress 1765
Sons and daughters of Liberty – intimidate royal tax agents & organize boycotts

5. Tar and Feathering

6. Townshend Acts 1767 (Charles Townshend)
1766 Repeal of the Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Townshend Acts 1767 (Charles Townshend)
New duties on tea, glass, and paper
Paid crown officials salaries
Search of private homes made legal w/ writ of assistance
Suspend NY’s assembly (for defiance of quartering Act)

7. Colonial Reaction
John Dickinson – goes against principal of English Law
James Otis & Samuel Adams – Circular Letter – repeal Townshend
British increase military occupation in Boston
Townshend Repealed 1770, but tensions high

8. The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

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

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

12. 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.

13. Boston Tea Party (1773)

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

15. The Quebec Act (1774)

16. Influence of Enlightenment Ideas
John Locke – Natural Rights
Jean Jacques Rousseau – General Will
American Revolution…Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Explain.
Do you think the American colonists have the right to revolt?

17. Influence of American Rev.
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau

18. 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.
Philadelphia

19. All colonies participate except for Georgia
List of grievances sent to King George III
Ignored!

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

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

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

23. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

24. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

25. Declaration of Independence (1776)

26. Declaration of Independence

27. Independence Hall

29. New National Symbols