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The American Revolution
Preconditions
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French & Indian War (1754-63)The Aftermath
• French: thrown off of the continent• Spanish: cedes Florida to the British in exchange for
being able to keep Cuba
British: • myth of invincibility is shattered, giving colonists
increased confidence in military• friction between officers & colonial soldiers & Indians• officials distressed at lack of common cause in colonists• debt complicates British ability to permanently defend
frontier
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The Enlightenment (1720-90)
• the Scientific Revolution encourages leaders to use scientific method for everything
• a critical view of society
• philosophes apply reason to all aspects of life, not just science
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Enlightenment Ideas• reason – the absence of intolerance or
prejudice
• nature – all that is good and reasonable in the laws of economics and politics
• happiness – well-being is possible on earth if one follows laws of nature
• progress – scientific method perfects
• liberty – reason sets society free
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Enlightenment Liberties
• trial by jury
• right to be taxed by elected lawmakers
• right to control military by Parliament
• constitutional monarchy – England’s kings and queens are limited by law
• limited democracy – House of Lords is hereditary and House of Commons elected by a small wealthy group of males
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The Enlightened Ones
• Lavoisier – discovered oxygen• Benjamin Franklin – electricity experiment• James Cook – mapped Pacific Ocean, Australia, New
Zealand, & Hawaii• significant composers include Bach, Handel, Beethoven,
Haydn, & Mozart• Adam Smith – discovered natural laws of economics• Montesquieu – advocated separation of powers• Rousseau – liberty is a birthright• Voltaire – raged against prejudice, superstition, and
intolerance
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Destruction of Lower Town, Quebec, by English Bombardment by Richard Short, 1759
After fall of Quebec to British forces, France's defeat in North America was virtually certain. (National Archives of Canada)
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George III by A. Ramsay, 1767Although unsure of himself and emotionally little more than a boy upon his accession to the English throne, George III possessed a deep moral sense and a fierce determination to rule as well as to reign. (Indianapolis Museum of Art, The James E. Roberts Fund)
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The American Revolution
Aggravators
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Stamp Act protestA Boston crowd burns bundles of the special watermarked paper intended for use as stamps. (Library of Congress)
• Pontiac’s Rebellion (1763)
• Proclamation of 1763
• Navigation Laws enforced (1763)
• Sugar Act (1764)• Stamp Tax (1765)• Stamp Act
Congress (1765)
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Boston Massacre (1770)Shortly after this incident,
one Bostonian observed that "unless there is some great
alteration in the state of things, the era of the
independence of the colonies is much nearer than I once thought it, or now wish it."
(Library of Congress)
• Declaratory Act (1766)
• Townsend Tea Tax (1767)
• Committees of Correspondence
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Boston Tea Party (1773)In this 1775 drawing of the Boston Tea Party, bare-chested Americans, their hair pulled back
Indian-fashion, pour tea into the harbor. The British lion appears as the figurehead of the tea ship, in case the true object of the protest was in doubt. The artist also added a large crowd of colonists
content to watch rather than do anything to prevent this destruction of private property. (Library of Congress)
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Mr. Rivington, pro-British editor, hanged in effigyThe Sons of Liberty, an organization that united elite and working class protesters, first appeared in Boston but spread quickly to other American cities. In 1775 a pro-British editor in New York, James Rivington, used this illustration while reporting that a New Brunswick mob had hanged him in effigy. The New York Sons promptly made good on the threat to Rivington, attacking his office, destroying his press, and forcing his paper to close. (Mr. Rivington: Library of Congress)
• Intolerable Acts (1774)
• Quebec Act (1774)
• First Continental Congress (1774)
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Thomas PaineHaving arrived in the colonies less than two years earlier, Paine became a best-selling author with the publication of Common Sense in 1776. (Art Gallery, Williams Center, Lafayette College )
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George Washington's copy of Common SenseThat America's patriot leaders read Thomas Paine's inflammatory Common Sense soon after it was published in early 1776 is indicated by this first edition, owned by George Washington himself. (Boston Athenaeum)
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A View of the Town of Concord, 1775In 1775 an unknown artist painted the redcoats entering Concord. The fighting at North
Bridge, which occurred just a few hours after this triumphal entry, signaled the start of open warfare between Britain and the colonies.
(Courtesy of Concord Museum, Concord, Massachusetts)
Trigger
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Pulling Down the Statue of George III by William WalcuttA statue of George III, standing in the Bowling Green in New York City, was one of the first casualties of the American Revolution; colonists marked the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by pulling it down. Much of the metal was melted to make bullets, but in the
twentieth century the head--largely intact--was unearthed in Connecticut. (Lafayette College Art Collection, Easton, Pennsylvania)