1. The American Revolution
Unit 2 Lesson 3

2. Tensions Grow
The colonists grew more and more upset with the British government.
Wanted to settle where they pleased
Proclamation Line of 1763
“No taxation without representation”

3. Taxes and Tea
Parliament (lawmaking body of the British government) passed the Stamp Act in 1765.
Placed a tax on paper goods in the colonies
Eventually glass, paint, and tea also taxed
Many colonists chose not to buy taxed goods.
Wrote angry letters to Parliament
Parliament sent more soldiers to the colonies

4. Taxes and Tea Colonists did not want the soldiers in their cities.
Fights began to break out.
Boston Massacre
March 1770
British soldiers fired on an angry crowd in Boston.
5 colonists died.

5. Taxes and Tea Boston Tea Party December 1773
Bostonians dressed as Native Americans and boarded tea ships in the Boston Harbor.
They dumped all the British tea into the harbor.
Liberty's Kids The Boston Tea Party

6. A War for Liberty
Parliament acted quickly to punish the colonists after the Boston Tea Party.
Laws were passed that closed Boston’s harbor.
Colonists were ordered to feed and house the British soldiers in the colonies.
Many colonists began to call for independence
The freedom to govern themselves
Philadelphia 1774  First Continental Congress
Meeting of colonial leaders
Congress asked the colonies to stop trading with Britain & told colonies to prepare their militias (volunteer armies) for British attack.

7. The Revolution Begins
April 1775  more than 700 British soldiers marched from Boston to take weapons and ammunition that the colonists had collected
When the British soldiers and colonists met at Lexington, shots rang out.
This battle marked the start of the American Revolution.
revolution  a sudden, complete change of government

8. The Revolution Begins
July 4, 1776  Congress issued the Declaration of Independence
Describes the colonists’ ideas about government & listed reasons for seeking independence
1777  Articles of Confederation
First plan of government for the United States of America, drafted by congress

9. The Revolutionary War
Liberty's Kids The American Revolution

10. Fighting in Ohio
Most battles were fought in the eastern United States.
Some were fought in the Ohio Valley region.
To defend the area, American soldiers built Fort Laurens near what is now Bolivar.

11. Fort Laurens

12. Fighting in Ohio
The British urged Native Americans to attack settlers in the Ohio Valley.
Led to many conflicts
By 1781, the United States had won the Revolutionary War.
In 1783, the British and Americans signed the second Treaty of Paris.
The British gave up much of their land in North America to the Americans.