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3. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration UnionIndependenceIndependenceFlags Events leading up to the Revolution: Navigation ActsNavigation Acts Restricting colonial trade with other nations. Currency Act. The Colonies could not print their own currency Quartering Act The Colonies had to provide lodging and supplies for British soldiers. Currency Act Quartering Act Stamp Act The first direct levy on the Colonies The Boston Tea Party

4. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Flags Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party in 1774: The Intolerable Acts: Boston Harbor closed until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea. activities of the Massachusetts legislature restricted. More power to the governor of Massachusetts making him a dictator. Answer of the colonists: a convention of delegates from the colonies to organize resistance to the Intolerable Acts: The Continental Congress.

5. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Flags Question: Imagine you had set up a prosperous farm or a good business in one of the American colonies and the British government forced you to pay taxes but did not allow you to have a say in governmental decisions. What would you do?

6. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Get together! Flags 1st & 2nd Continental Congresses: the colonies unite!  cut off colonial trade with Great Britain  Parliament abolish the Intolerable Acts  advise colonies to begin training for war  define America's rights  place limits on Parliament's power  resist aggressive acts of the English Government  On July 4, 1776: the Second Continental Congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence.

7. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Get together! Flags >

8. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Flags > The signing of the Declaration of Independence Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776. The committee: John Adams, Robert Sherman, Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Franklin John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress. The Declaration of Independence Road Trip Video

9. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Flags Boston Massacre engraving

10. Boston Tea Paul Revere declaration Union Flags > Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-five Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Paul Revere's Ride Paul Revere 1775

11. Boston Tea Lexington declaration Union Battle of Lexington Flags The Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775. 70 colonial minutemen and 700 British soldiers near: Concord, Massachusetts. American militia warned by Paul Revere. The words of the American commander: "Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here,"

12. Boston Tea Minute men declaration Union Militia Men Flags Minutemen were paid for their training

13. Boston Tea Paul Revere Declaration Union Guess the right order Flags > AB C Paul Revere & the Raiders Betsy Ross showing the United States flag to George Washington

14. New Nation Nation building

15. New Nation Nation building What the English were used to...

16. New Nation Nation building What America chose to adopt...

17. New Nation Nation building Trias Politica

18. New Nation Bottom up Nation building Town meetings Jury Sheriffs Chosen Mayor “No big government” Volunteers during elections Real In schools

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