The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

Resistance

Felt the British did not care about their needs

Britain in financial crisis

Tighten laws against smuggling

A-

B-

Mercantilism

Justified control over the colonies

Benefit mother country

Currency problems

Royal Veto

Favorable Balance of Trade

A-

B-

Salutary Neglect

Sugar Act- 1764

Increased the duty on foreign made molasses

Taxed imports=

Those accused of smuggling would be

Had little impact on colonists

Quartering Act-1765

Provide food and

Used Stamp Act to pay for

Stamp Act-1765

Tax on documents and printed items

A-

Stamp=

Boycott British goods until Stamp Act was repealed

A-

Resistance

Stamp Act Congress- 1765

A-

B-

C-

D-

Sons of Liberty

A-

B-

C-

Declaratory Act-1766

Passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed

“Bind the colonies and people of

Townshend Acts-1767

A-Taxed goods that were

B-Pay salaries=

C-Boycotted British goods-

Boston Massacre- March 5, 1770

A-

B- Shot accidentally fired-

C- Townsend Act costing more to enforce-

Tea Act- 1773

British East India Company-

A-

B-

Cut colonial merchants

Colonial did not want to buy

Boston Tea Party- December 16, 1773

A-Boston rebels

B-Dressed as

C-Dumped 18,000 pounds

The “Intolerable Acts”- 1774

Shut down Boston Harbor-

Quartering Act

A-

Thomas Gage-

A-Appointed the

B-Placed Boston

Quebec Act

French guaranteed their Catholic Religion-

Boundaries extended southward to-

First Continental Congress- September 1774

A- 55

B- 7

C- Drew up Declaration of Colonial Rights

A-Right to run

B- If British used force

Association

A- Complete Boycott of British goods

A-

B-

C-

Lexington and Concord- April 18, 1775

Paul Revere

A-

B-

70 minutemen-Lexington

A-

B-

First battle of the

Concord

A- Redcoats marched

B- Arsenal was empty-

C- 3,000-4,000-

D- Fired on the troops as

Imperial Strength and Weaknesses

Strengths
a-
b-
c-
d-
e- / Weaknesses
a-
b-
c-

American Pluses and Minuses

Strengths
a-
b-
c-
d-
e- / Weaknesses
a-
b-
c-
d-
e-