After the French & Indian War

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 Stamp Act Repealed - Repeal means ______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. ______