1. 1.2c Events Leading to the American Revolution
1.2-Analyze the early development of representative government and political rights in the American colonies, including the influence of the British political system and the rule of law as written in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights, and the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.

2. What the Colonists wanted to accomplish!!
The colonists were _________ ________ _____ ________were to ________ or at first attempting to form a new government.
They were trying to _________ _______a government they developed under the British policy of salutary neglect
They did not want _____________in Parliament. They want British recognition that only colonial legislatures had the right to _________ _______on the citizens of the colonies.

4. Do you recognize the action in this painting?
What are the people in this painting doing and why?

5. The Boston Tea Party
After the Boston Massacre the British repealed the ______________ _____________.
The tax on __________ remained in place and after years of _____________ _________the colonists would not accept the tax.
In December of 1773 a group of men dressed as Mohawks raided the ships and threw large amounts of ___________ _____________ ______________ _________________.

6. The British Response
Angry, the British responded with the _______________ ___________ which because of their harshness the colonists called the ________________ _________________.
These acts attempted _____________ the citizens of Boston who the British felt were the cause of the problem.
_____________ _________ ______________
Placed a military governor over Boston and declared ______________ ______________.
They extended the Canadian border which took land away from the New England colony.

7. First Continental Congress, 1775
In response to the British Intolerable Acts the colonist called the F________________ C______________ C______________.
This Congress issued a written statement that told the King that because the colonies were not______________________________________________.
All hope of a peaceful resolution failed when the British sent troops to capture weapon and ammunition at Concord, Massachusetts.
The colonial militia confronted the British at ________________ _______________ and the first shots of the war were fired.
This battle is known in history as the battle _______________ _______________________.

8. Second Continental Congress
Less than a month later delegates met for the S____________________ C___________ C____________ to discuss the worsening situation
Then the delegates issued the ____________ ________ _____________on July 4th, (issued at the 2nd C. Congress)

9. What could have urged the colonists to declare independence?
____________ ______________author of “Common Sense”
Pamphlet that _________the colonists to separate from Great Britain