The Road to Revolution

Target

• Demonstrate the cause and

effect relationships between

the events that let to Revolution

The Stamp Act

• Passed in 1765 to pay debts for

the French and Indian War

• First tax that directly affected

the people

• Colonists must purchase

special stamped paper for…..

The Stamp Act

• Every legal document, license, newspaper,

pamphlet, almanac, playing cards and dice

• Offenders were tried without juries

Stamp Act Protest

• Sons of Liberty

• Sam Adams (founder)

• Demonstrated and protested

• Harassed custom workers and royal governors

• Mob threat

Stamp Act Protest

(cont)

• Stamp Act Resolutions

• “Resolved, therefore that the

General Assembly of this Colony

have the only and exclusive Right

and Power to lay Taxes and

Impositions upon the inhabitants

of this Colony…”

Stamp Act Congress

• New York

• Declaration of Rights and

Grievances

• Parliament lacked the power to

impose taxes on colonists with

out representation

• First time the colonists worked

as one!

Albany Plan

• 10 years earlier

• Ben Franklin proposed the formation of a

delegation of 13 colonies

• For defense and the levy of taxes

• Turned down

British Response?

• Britain repealed the Act

• Declatory Act- Parliament had

the right to make any and all

laws and taxes

• Colonial Reaction?

• Ignored it

Townshend Act (1767)

• Tax on tea, glass, paper, lead,

and paint

• Indirect tax

• Luxury tax

American Response?

• Well organized

resistance

• Boycott

• Harassment

• Riots

The Road to Revolution

Review

• 1. What was the Stamp Act?

• 2. How did the Americans

respond?

• 3. What did the British do about

it?

• 4. What was the Townshend

Act?

• 5. How did the Americans

respond?

Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre

Propaganda

• British Response???

• Britain Repeals the Townshend

Acts!

Tea Act (1773)

• British East India Company hit

hard by colonial boycotts

• In order to save they were able

to sell directly to the people

• American Response???

Boston Tea Party

• Colonists, poorly dressed as Mohawk Indians

• Dump 15,000 pounds of tea and destroy several

ships

British Response???

• Britain passes harsher laws

• Intolerable Acts (1774) a.k.a.

Coercive Acts

Intolerable Acts

• Closed the Port of Boston

• Boston under martial law

• Quartering Act

• Home owners were required to give

shelter, food, cloths to soldiers

Would remain in effect until tea is paid for

American Response

• First Continental Congress

• Stop trade with Britain

• Boycott

• Every colony except Georgia meet

in Philly

British Response

• British General Thomas Gage

• Marched to Concord to seize weapons

• “shot heard around the world” at Lexington

Lexington and Concord

• Gage continues to Concord

• Does not find weapons but is attacked by

colonists

Arguments Against???

• 1. British Tax Policies

• 2. British Land Policies

• 3. The Mercantilistic System

• 4. Desire of Americans to rule

themselves

• 5. Lack of representation in

Parliament

Review

• 1. List 5 specific forms of

protest used by the colonists

against the British.

• 2. List two reasons why people

protest something.

Review

• 1. List the various purposes of the

Declaration of Independence

• 2. List the groups that Jefferson was

trying to persuade when he wrote the

Declaration of Independence.

Targets

• 1. List and describe characteristics of

Patriots and Loyalists

• 2. Predict who should win this war.

Patriot vs. Loyalist

Britain vs. America