The Road to Revolution: ( 1763-1776 )
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Townsend Acts 1760’s
• The British Government taxes things the colonists buy.
• This includes sugar, molasses, tea, coffee, paint, lead, glass, and paper.
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The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)
• Americans swear, jeer, and throw snowballs and rocks at the British Soldiers.
• British soldiers fire on the Americans.
What does Massacre mean?
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Tea Act (1773)8 After the massacre,
most taxes are lifted except the tax on tea. Monopoly on British
tea imports. Many members of
EnglishParliament held shares.
Tea Act permitted the Company to sell tea directly to colonies.
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Boston Tea Party (1773)
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The Intolerable Acts (1774)
Lord North: Prime Minister of England
1. Close the port of Boston to repay the tea lost.2. All colonial government appointed by the king. 3. Soldiers can be placed in private homes
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Intolerable Acts continued.
• 4. Colonists can be taken to England for trial. (no more trial by peers)
• 5. Gives Western parts of colonies to Canadian Province
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The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the
Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.
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The Shot Heard ’Round the World!
Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775