1. The Road to Revolution SAME AS LAST CLASS
Aim: How did British policies affect the 13 colonies after the French and Indian War?
Do Now: Explain “taxation without representation”

4. Pontiac’s Rebellion Colonists move onto Native American land in west
Pontiac’s Rebellion – Indian response
Attacked settlements and forts
Smallpox infested blankets
Indians retreat

5. Proclamation line of 1763 Too many problems with Indians
Forbid colonists to settle west of Appalachian Mountains
Colonists upset
British angry b/c colonists did not pay for the war

6. Growing Apart Parliament – new laws and restrictions on colonies
Proclamation of 1763
Salutary neglect no longer

7. Troops King George III – prevent Native American problems
Quartering Act – quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies
10,000 soldiers

8. Taxes Large British debt from war Britain needed more revenue (income)
1764 – Sugar Act – tax on sugar
External tax
“taxation without representation is tyranny”

9. Stamp Act
All legal documents show an official stamp that shows that a tax was paid
Fell directly on all colonists not just merchants – internal tax
Vigorous protest

10. Protest Stamp Act Congress in N.Y.
Boycott – refusal to buy – British goods
Sons of Liberty – secret group of protesters
Burned stamps
Attacked tax officials

11. Declaratory Act - 1766 Repealed the Stamp Act
Dec. Act – Parliament had supreme authority to govern the colonies

12. Townshend Acts - 1767 Tax on: glass, lead, paints, paper, tea
Writs of assistance – search warrants for smuggled goods
Soldier could search homes for smuggled goods

13. The Boston Massacre Aim: Who was at fault for the Boston Massacre?
Do Now: Take out Boston Massacre worksheet

14. Boston Massacre
Verbal argument between colonists and redcoats – snowballs and rocks thrown
Soldiers fire on crowd
5 killed
Crispus Attucks – African American
News of the “massacre”
spreads throughout the
colonies

15. Boston Massacre- 1770 Redcoats arrested for murder
John Adams – lawyer for redcoats
Ruling – self-defense – not guilty

16. Protest Boycott – refusal to buy – British goods
Samuel Adams – leader of Sons of Liberty
Riots
Townshend Acts repealed
In 1770
Tax on tea is kept

17. The Road to Revolution Tighter British Control
Aim: Explain the Boston Tea Party and how the British responded to it.
Do Now: Why did Paul Revere portray the Boston Massacre like the picture above?

18. The Road to Revolution Tighter British Control
Aim: How did the British respond to the Boston Tea Party?
Do Now: Take out Homework

19. Protests Repeal of Townshend Acts and other acts
Kept tax on tea to show authority
Boycott hurt British trade
Committees of correspondence – groups that exchanged letters on colonial affairs

20. Tea Act Tea drank by almost all colonists
Most of it smuggled from Holland
1773 – gave British control over American tea trade
Tea only came to colonies on British company ships
EAST INDIA COMPANY

21. Boston Tea Party Boycott of British tea
1773 – colonist disguised as Native Americans
Destroyed 342 chests of tea
TODAY’S MONEY - $1 MILLION
Parliament outraged

22. Intolerable Acts 1774 Coercive or Intolerable Acts
Punish Massachusetts
Serve as warning to other colonies about rebelling
Port of Boston closed until paid for tea destroyed
Ban committees of correspondence
GB officials accused of crimes will have trial in Britain not the colonies

23. Intolerable Acts Other colonies support Boston
Send food and money
Unite colonies together against British

24. The Road to Revolution Aim: How did the American Revolution begin?
Do Now: Why did Britain pass the Intolerable Acts?
Homework – Study for tomorrow’s Quiz!

25. First Continental Congress
1774 – delegates from all colonies meet in Philadelphia
Except Georgia
Ban all trade with GB until Intolerable Acts repealed
Each colony to start training troops
STORE WEAPONS
IN CONCORD,
MASSACHUSETTS

26. Preparing for Conflict
Paul Revere and William Dawes
Messengers
Signal to alert colonists of British troops
Old North Church
One lantern – troops coming by land
Two lanterns – troops coming by water

27. Midnight Ride GB troops march to Concord
Revere and Dawes warn colonists

28. Preparing for Conflict
militia – force of armed civilians
Minutemen – trained to be ready at a minute’s warning

29. Lexington and Concord April 19, 1775 “the shot heard around the world”
Colonists fight against the redcoats
Redcoats scramble back to Boston
First battles of the Revolutionary War