Road to the American Revolution

  1. After the French & Indian War…
  2. British Goals: Keep the Colonist out of Indian Territory to ______and increasing the already doubled debt.
  3. Conflict with Indians = ______Protection = ______
  4. How will England Pay its Debts???
  5. ______.
  6. England believes that since colonies are responsible for debt, they should help pay
  7. Taxing the Colonies
  8. Action
  9. Sugar Act (1764) – tax placed on ______
  10. Mercantilist Policy
  11. Smugglers would be tried in courts ______
  12. Reaction
  13. Colonists are ANGRY!!!
  14. ______
  15. Trials without juries are ______
  16. Taxation Without Representation is Tyranny
  17. Colonists thought of themselves as ______
  18. Colonists had ______
  19. Tax laws were being passed without the colonists having a say so.
  20. They did not want ______.
  21. John Locke and William Blackstone
  22. Locke – wrote that government was a “______”
  23. Government has contract/obligation to protect individual freedom and property
  24. If they fail to do this, ______
  25. Blackstone – defined the ______in English law as well as ______
  26. Colonists Divide
  27. Patriots
  28. Patriots were American Colonists who wanted to be ______. Also called ______.
  29. Examples: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, Paul Revere, George Washington
  30. Loyalists
  31. Loyalists were colonists who were ______. Also called ______.
  32. Taxing Continues
  33. Action
  34. Stamp Act (1765) – tax on ______(printed publications and official documents)
  35. Reaction
  36. Colonist protest
  37. Colonist begin ______(______) on British goods
  38. Sons of Liberty formed by Sam Adams
  39. Action
  40. Quartering Act (1765) – Required colonists to quarter (______) British troops in America.
  1. Reaction
  2. Colonists protest
  3. Colonists were upset that they are forced to house British soldiers and they had to pay for all expenses.
  1. Opposition Grows – Townshend Acts
  2. Action
  3. Stamp Act Repealed - Repeal means ______
  4. Townshend Acts (1767) - tax on ______
  5. Use Writs of Assistance to enforce tax – searches conducted by British customs officers looking for illegal imports or exports.
  6. Send more British soldiers to keep order
  7. Reaction
  8. ______
  9. Colonial governments oppose them
  10. ______take action – attack ______
  11. Colonial Leaders
  12. Samuel Adams - Helped organize the Committees of Correspondence, Sons of Liberty and the ______.
  13. Mercy Otis Warren
  14. —Helped organize the Committee of Correspondence
  15. ______and ______to against the British as a form of protest
  16. Mercy wrote the first history of the American Revolutionary War using her notes from meetings and conversations.
  17. Mercy’s ideas and writing ______.
  18. Boston Massacre, 1770
  19. ______, a man of mixed African and Native American Indian ancestry, ______.
  20. There were 8 British soldiers, and they killed 5 colonists.
  21. Samuel Adams called it the “Boston Massacre”.
  22. New Trouble – Tea Act
  23. Action
  24. Parliament repeals the Townshend Acts, except for ______
  25. Tea Act (1773)– tax on tea, East India Company monopolizes tea business
  26. Reaction
  27. Colonist protest
  28. ______(1773) – colonist ______, dump 45 tons of tea into Boston Harbor
  29. England is outraged! Coercive Acts Passed
  30. Action
  31. Coercive Acts (1774) – ______
  32. ______
  33. Quartering Act is back
  34. Eliminate elected gov’t council
  35. British officials charged with major crimes were to be ______
  36. Reaction
  37. Tension escalates to an all time high
  38. ______

Political Causes for Breaking with Great Britain
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Economic Causes for Breaking with Great Britain
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