ROAD TO REVOLUTION DECP US History Mrs Lacks

ROAD TO REVOLUTION DE/CP US History Mrs. Lacks

EFFECTS OF THE FRENCH & INDIAN WAR Proclamation of 1763 English troop presence English debt (war is $$$) Increasing cultural differences

PROCLAMATION OF 1763 To prevent another war, English banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Colonists were outraged – had just fought for this land

ENGLISH TROOP PRESENCE Quartering Act (1765) – American colonists had to house and feed English troops

WAR DEBT English implemented taxes on colonists to pay off debt Sugar Act (1764) – tax on sugar Currency Act (1764) – eliminated colonial currency Stamp Act (1765) – tax on all printed materials (newspapers, playing cards, all paper)

COLONIAL REACTION Boycott of British goods Sons of Liberty born Daughters of Liberty born

STAMP ACT REVOKED! Boycotts hurt London merchants English government still needed money

TOWNSHEND ACTS 1767 Taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, tea

COLONIAL REACTION British warship Gaspee burned

THE BOSTON MASSACRE English troops vs. Boston Colonists March 5, 1770 Engraving by Paul Revere

CRISPUS ATTUCKS First martyr of the American Revolution Former slave Boston abolitionist

1770 – 1772: THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM No fighting nobody really advocated independence [yet]

THE TEA ACT 1773 British Action: says colonials can only buy tea from East India Company (shuts out colonial tea merchants) Colonial Reaction: The Boston Tea Party Colonists in Boston rebel, dumping 15, 000 pounds of East India Company tea into Boston Harbor

COERCIVE “INTOLERABLE” ACTS Port Bill Government Act Quartering Act Administration of Justice Act

QUEBEC ACT Gave land back to France Specifically allowed Catholicism in former French areas

ST 1 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS September 1774 Philadelphia 56 delegates met (not GA) Sought to form a cohesive message for England

ST 1 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS Results: Parliament has no right to tax colonies (“no representation”) all trade with Britain stopped

WAR BEGINS! Minutemen in Massachusetts were stock piling weapons at Concord British General Thomas Gage learns of supplies and marches from Boston to seize them Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott ride to spread word that the British are coming

The British are coming! Paul Revere’s Ride

LEXINGTON & CONCORD Lexington (April 19, 1775) – Minutemen surprise the British on their way to Concord First shot fired - “the shot heard ‘round the world” 8 colonists and 1 British soldier were killed

LEXINGTON & CONCORD British continued to Concord arsenal was empty; camped overnight in morning, met 3 to 4, 000 Minutemen who began firing on them British saved by reinforcements

ND 2 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS May 1775 – December 1776 (1 st session) All 13 colonies present Major figures: Ben Franklin (PA), George Washington (VA), Thomas Jefferson (VA), Richard Henry Lee (VA), John Adams (MA), John Hancock (MA) Took over a year for the delegates to agree to vote on independence