Road to Revolution

Problems in ColoniesCurrency

shortageBritish crown

holds nullification rights

England believes colonists’ should support the debt ($140 million)

George Grenville Ordered to enforce

Navigation ActsPassed Sugar Act, Stamp

Act and Quartering Act“No taxation without

representation”England claims “virtual

representation”Colonists create Stamp

Act Congress, boycotts by Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Stamp Act repealed and replaced with Declaratory Act

Charles TownshendIndirectly taxed everyday

goods like paper, glass and paint.

New York legislature was suspended

Boston Massacre occurredTownshend Acts are total

failure (raise almost 300 pounds in a year)

Colonists created “committees of correspondence”

Lord North and the Tea ActTea Act passed

giving monopoly to British East India Company

Boston Tea PartyEngland responds

with Intolerable Acts

Quebec Act is also passed, deeply hated by colonists

First Continental Congress summoned and eventually created a Declaration of Rights

The Association was created and called for complete boycott of British goods

Shots fired and Lexington

Chose George Washington

Compare and contrast the advantages of the colonists and England

Battle at Bunker Hill

Thomas Paine and Common Sense

But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.

2nd Continental CongressOlive Branch Petition

Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson

Declaration of IndependenceIN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of AmericaWhen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to

dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to

which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the

causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that

they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to

secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form

of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to

them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment

Washington Crosses The Delaware

Battle of Saratoga

Battle of Yorktown

Effects of the RevolutionTreaty of Paris of 1783