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The Road to Revolution
Tighter British ControlColonial Resistance GrowsThe Road to Lexington &
ConcordDeclaring Independence
Tighter British Control King George III attempts to control colonies
Proclamation of 1763Forbade colonists from moving west
Quartering Act (1764)10,000 soldiers left from French & Indian warColonists required to provide housing
New taxesSugar act (1765)
Taxed sugar, molasses, & other products shipped to colonies
Stamp act (1766)Required tax stamp on all legal & printed
documents
Colonists responseStamp Act Congress (1765)Parliament had no right to tax coloniesNo tax can be created without colonists consent
“No Taxation without Representation”Patrick Henry
Sons of LibertyFormed to oppose British policiesSamuel AdamsJohn HancockBoycott
Refusal to buy British goods
Colonial Resistance Grows Declaratory Act (1766)
Stated Parliament had authority to pass laws for colonies
Townshend Acts (1767)Charles Townshend, England’s prime ministerTaxed glass, paper, paint, lead, & tea
Writs of AssistanceAllowed searches for smuggled goods
Daughters of LibertyUrged people to make their own goods
Boston Massacre (1770)Used by Sons of LibertyCrispus Attucks – 1st patriot to dieJohn Adams – defended the British soldiers
Tea Act (1773)All tea must be from East India Company
Committees of CorrespondencePassed secret letters from colony to colony
keeping all informed of collective actionBoston Tea Party (1773)
Sons of Liberty in disguise destroyed 3 ships of tea protesting the Tea act
The Road to Lexington & Concord
Intolerable Acts (1774) (Coercive acts)Closed port of BostonBanned town meetingsReplaced elected officials with appointed onesIncreased Governor’s powerProtected British officials from trialAllowed troops in private homes
1st Continental Congress (1774)All colonies except GeorgiaBanned trade w/ England until Intolerable Acts repealedAgreed to meet again in 7 months
John HancockCommittee of SafetyMinutemen
Militia ready to fight in a “minute’s” noticePatrick Henry
“give me liberty or give me death”Loyalists
Colonists who sided with the kingPatriots
Colonists against the king
British learn that ammunition stored outside BostonLexington & Concord (April 19, 1775)
Paul Revere’s rideSamuel Dawes & William Prescott
“Shot heard around the world”700 British soldiers under Captain John
Parker vs. 70 minutemen4000 minutemen lined the road on return to Boston
Declaring IndependenceSiege of Boston
Battle of Bunker HillBreed’s Hill“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their
eyes”2nd Continental Congress
Continental Army is formedGeorge Washington chosen commanderOlive Branch Petition
Last hope for peace rejected by King George III
British forced from BostonWashington moves guns from Ticonderoga
Rebellion becomes RevolutionThomas Paine’s “Common Sense”
Pamphlet promoting IndependenceCongress moves toward Independence
Richard Henry Lee introduced resolution“free & independent states”Unanimous vote
Declaration committeeThomas JeffersonJohn AdamsBenjamin FranklinRoger ShermanRobert Livingston
Declaration of IndependenceSeparation from England