1. SSUSH 3
The student will explain the primary causes of the American Revolution.

2. The Road
to Revolution:
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3. You need to know about… Proclamation of 1763 Navigation Acts
French & Indian War
Treaty of Paris 1763
Proclamation of 1763
Navigation Acts
Sugar Act and Stamp Act
Stamp Act war repealed; Townshend Acts in place
Pgs

4. Preview You will be shown a series of three events and people.
Tell what is happening in each event and be prepared to explain how this events lead to poor British-Colonial Relations.

7. Crispus Attucks
Pg 96

8. John Adams

9. Providence, RI coast

10. Processing Tar and feathering Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Relationship Impact?

11. Making the Connection
What would you do to let other colonies know about what was happening in your community?
Why was / is it important for people to know about what is going on outside of their own neighborhood or region?

12. Committees of Correspondence
Purpose  warn neighboring colonies about incidents with Br  broaden the resistance movement.

13. Tea Act (1773) Lord North British East India Co.:
Monopoly on Br. tea imports.
Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!)
Destroy the colonial
tea trade
Lord North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.
Lord North

14. Boston Tea Party (1773)
Sons of Liberty

15. The Coercive or Intolerable Acts (1774)
Port of Boston closed until colonist agreed to pay for the damage of the Tea Party.
British soldiers could be quartered in vacant private homes & buildings.
Thomas Gage (commander and chief of British forces in N Am) appointed gov. of Mass. Wh/ = martial law

16. The Quebec Act (1774) Colonist feared:
Lack of democratic gov’t in Quebec = bad precedent for them
Feared RCC strong hold in the colonies

17. COLONIAL REACTION: Formed the 1st Continental Congress
Sept 1774
Agenda  How to respond to the Coercive Acts & the Quebec Act?
56 delegates from 12 colonies meet in Philadelphia, PA
Stated if demands were not met, colonist should fight back

18. The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British soldiers.

19. The Shot Heard ’Round the World! Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

20. The Second Continental Congress (July 5, 1775)
Olive Branch Petition

21. Was the
American Revolution
Inevitable??

22. Thomas Paine: Common Sense

23. Declaration of Independence (1776)

24. Declaration of Independence

25. Independence Hall Thompson, Hancock, Read, Dickinson, Rutledge. McKean
Wilson
Chase & Morris
Lee & Adams
Walton
Hopkins
Adams, Sherman, Livingston, Jefferson, Franklin

26. New National Symbols