1. The Road to Revolution

3. The Problem of Empire Imperial Financial Strain Military Challenges
Resentments
Indian Relations
Cherokee War ( )
Pontiac’s Rebellion ( )

4. Pontiac's Rebellion (1763)

5. British Constitutional Theory
The Nature of the British Constitution
Foundational Concepts:
King-In-Parliament
House of Lords
House of Commons
Prime Minister
Franchise Size
Virtual Representation
Gentry Rule

6. Colonial Constitutional Theory
Old British Ideas
Old Whig Ideology
Representative Government
New Colonial Ideas
Direct Representation
Rejection of Direct Parliamentary Authority
No Taxation Without Representation

7. The Beginning of Trouble
The Currency Act (1764)
No Colonial Paper Money
Gold and Silver Only
Colonists face financial crisis; too many colonists, not enough gold and silver

8. John Hancock, Boston Merchant and KING OF SUGAR SMUGGLING
John Hancock of Boston smuggled 1.5 million gallons of molasses a year, evading 35,000 pounds worth of taxes. This was roughly equivalent to $2,059, in dollars.

9. The Beginning of Trouble: The Sugar Act of 1764
Cuts the actual tax in half
But now cases are tried in Admiralty courts in Halifax, Nova Scotia. (Military)
Colonists fear arbitrary search and seizure and losing their rich sugar smuggling profits.
Leads to nonimportation agreements (boycotts)
Many colonists unaffected, though.

11. The Beginning of Trouble: The Stamp Act of 1765
A tax on all paper, especially for records, contracts, and other business
A direct tax which hits every American.
Colonists go crazy
Writs of Assistance—Used for Search and Seizure.

12. Resistance to the Stamp Act

13. Resistance to the Stamp Act
The Liberty Tree
“Watered with
the blood of tyrants”

14. Resistance to the Stamp Act
Vigilantes (Sons of Liberty)
Nonimportation
The Stamp Act Congress (October 1765)
Declaration of Rights and Grievances

15. No More Stamp Act Parliament is stunned
Even French attack couldn't make colonists cooperate this well!
Parliament repeals Sugar and Stamp Acts
Declaratory Act: Parliament asserts it has full legislative power over the colonies.

16. The Boston Crisis: The Townshend Duties
1767 Duties on various goods
Seizure of the Liberty
Riots in Boston
Occupation of Boston in 1768

17. The Boston
Crisis: The
Boston
Massacre
(1770)

18. Samuel Adams, Patriot Agitator

19. The Boston Crisis: The Boston Tea Party
The British East India Company—Given Monopoly on Tea
Tax cut to NOTHING
Bostonians protest loss of tea trade with Boston Tea Party

20. The Boston Tea Party

21. The Boston Crisis: The Intolerable Acts
Boston Port Act
Administration of Justice Act
Massachusetts Governing Act
The Quartering Act

22. The Quebec Act

23. Patrick Henry at First Continental Congress

24. Storm Clouds Gather First Continental Congress (1774) Whigs vs. Tories
Suffolk Resolves
Continental Association
Whigs vs. Tories