Unit 3 Revolution to Constitution

Section 1 – Road to Revolution

Jeffrey Amherst

Pontiac

Fort Detroit

Pontiac’s War

Proclamation of 1763 control angered

No taxation without representation! Section 1 – Road to Revolution

Sons of Liberty

Section 1 – Road to Revolution boycott repealed

Charles Townshend

Section 1 – Road to Revolution writs of assistance tea

Samuel Adams

Section 1 – Road to Revolution printers

George WashingtonPatrick Henry

Crispus Attucks

Section 1 – Road to Revolution Boston Massacre

John Adams

England’s King George III

Section 1 – Road to Revolution Tea Act monopoly smugglers boycott

Samuel Adams John Hancock

Section 1 – Road to Revolution Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) control rights

Section 1 – Road to Revolution Intolerable Acts (Coercive Acts) shut down the port of Boston Quartering Act

Amendment 1 –Freedoms of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition Protects 5 basic rights Added because of Intolerable Acts passed by England for the colonies

Amendment 3 –Lodging Troops in Private Homes Limits the government’s right to use private homes to house soldiers – must have consent of the owner Added because of Quartering Acts passed by England for the colonies

Section 1 – Road to Revolution Quebec Act

Section 1 – Road to Revolution Philadelphia First Continental Congress stop exporting militia minutemen

Thomas Gage

Paul Revere

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Now listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.”

John Parker Statue in Lexington Lexington skirmish

Concord battleground

Section 1 – Road to Revolution sharpshooters

Ralph Waldo Emerson “The shot heard round the world.”

Example of a political cartoon about taxes in Italy.

Section 2 – The American Revolution

Patrick Henry “Give me liberty or give me death.”

American Revolution began on April 19, 1775 at Lexington and Concord 1775EnglandColonies Weapons & supplies Had all they neededNext to none ArmiesBiggest in worldNext to none NavyLargest in worldNone MoneyRichest in world (biggest country) Next to nothing Biggest advantage Americans had: fighting on their own soil, they knew the terrain.

Green Mountain Boys led by Ethan Allen

Section 2 – The American Revolution Fort Ticonderoga (first big battle of the American Revolution) cannon Canada

Section 2 – The American Revolution Second Continental Congress Olive Branch Petition Continental Army George Washington

Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)

Colonel British General William Prescott William Howe

Section 2 – The American Revolution “Don’t shoot until you see the whites of their eyes!” Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)

Section 2 – The American Revolution gunpowder moral

Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)

Section 2 – The American Revolution mistrusted loyalty

Section 2 – The American Revolution blockade Quebec

Richard Montgomery Benedict Arnold

Section 2 – The American Revolution hunger and disease

Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense

Section 2 – The American Revolution independence traitors

John Adams Benjamin Franklin Robert Livingston Roger Sherman

Thomas Jefferson “Father” of the Declaration of Independence

John Hancock

Declaration of Independence 3 main parts 1. Basic rights –governments –duty 2. British wrongs 3. An independent nation –United States of America

Declaration of Independence United States of America ties with Britain were cut free alliances and trade

Section 2 – The American Revolution divided Patriots –People who wanted colonists to win the revolution Loyalists –People who wanted England to win the revolution

Section 2 – The American Revolution fled lost