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CHAIN OF EVENTS: CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 11/3: Chain of Events: Causes of the Revolution 14 The French and Indian War caused Britain to tax the colonists more and limit expansion Proclamation of 1763: GB wanted to end fighting so they limited westward growth. Made people angry! Etc….

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CHAIN OF EVENTS: CAUSES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

11/3: Chain of Events: Causes of the Revolution 14

The French and Indian War

caused Britain to tax the colonists more and limit

expansion

Proclamation of 1763: GB

wanted to end fighting so

they limited westward

growth. Made people angry!

Etc….

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CHAIN LINK #1: FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR

French and Indian War-

• Between French and British in N. America

(1745-1763)• Britain won; France

lost all land in N. America

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CHAIN LINK #2: PROCLAMATION OF 1763

Proclamation of 1763

• Britain said no more moving west of the Appalachian Mtns • Speculators

(investors) who had bought land there

were furious

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CHAIN LINK #3: BRITAIN WANTS TO REDUCE ITS DEBT

Britain wants to get rid of debt from F&I War:1.Sugar Act (1764): law

that put a tax on molasses

2.Stamp Act (1765): tax on all printed goods

(newspapers, wills, playing cards etc.

needed to be stamped by the British)

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CHAIN LINK #4: BURNED IN EFFIGY

• Colonists were ANGRY about Stamp

Act!• “No Taxation

Without Representation!!”• Protestors burned

unpopular tax collectors in effigy

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CHAIN LINK #5: ACT REPEALED…?

Stamp Act Repealed

• 1766: British Parliament

repealed Stamp Act

• Colonists happy!! But...

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CHAIN LINK #6: TOWNSEND ACTS

Townshend Acts (1767)

•Taxed imported goods

•Glass, tea, paper, lead

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CHAIN LINK #7: DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY

Daughters of Liberty• Colonists boycott

imported goods• Women created the

“Daughters of Liberty-” urged

people to use and wear only American-

made things

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CHAIN LINK #8: BOSTON MASSACRE

Boston Massacre• Scuffle between

colonists and British soldiers

leaves 5 colonists dead, including Crispus Attucks• Colonists FURIOUS!!

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CHAIN LINK #9: GROWTH OF PROPAGANDA

Propaganda-information used to influence opinion• Bostonians used

massacre to increase anti-

British feelings

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CHAIN LINK #10: COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE

Committee of Correspondence- created by colonists to help get info out about the colonists’

grievances, or problems, with

Britain

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CHAIN LINK #11: BOSTON TEA PARTY

Boston Tea PartyTo protest Tea Act (1773), colonists,

dressed as Mohawks, dumped 342 chests of tea

into the water

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CHAIN LINK #12: INTOLERABLE ACTS

Intolerable Acts• King George III punished Boston

• 1774-Coercive Acts- closed Harbor,

banned town mtgs, and forced colonists

to keep British soldiers in their

houses (Quartering)

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CHAIN LINK #13: CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

Continental Congress

• 1774-colonists met in

Philadelphia, PA to create a

political body to challenge British

control

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LESSON SUMMARY

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