1. #MCM Born in February 1731 From Virginia
Was a surveyor that worked for the Ohio Company
Was a soldier in the British military
Is basically responsible for starting the French and Indian War

2. NOTES on
Road
to Revolution:
(pre 1776)

3. Before… After…

6. Help Us!

7. Sorry Friends, I have no money to pay the troops!
Please don’t cross the Mountains and you will be safe 

8. Proclamation of 1763 – boundary to protect colonists … can NOT move west of Appalachian Mts.
a. Colonists ignore… move west

11. 2. Britain’s Financial Problems
a. War costs $$$$ …colonists forced to pay for F & I War
b. Sugar Act – tax on molasses

12. c. Quartering Act – forced colonists to provide housing for soldiers

13. “No taxation without representation!”
3. Stamp Act – tax on printed materials
Sons of Liberty: group of patriots organizing against the British
Daughters of Liberty: organize boycott (refuse to buy Brit goods)
Need women to make clothes for colonists
“No taxation without representation!”

15. Tar and Feathering
tarring and feathering of John Malcolm (customs agent)

16. 4. Townshend Act- tax on imported glass, tea, etc.
Boston Massacre: colonists throw icicles and oyster shells at British soldiers… soldiers fire on crowd and kill 5 wound 8
Committee of Correspondence: writers who inform colonists of British treating colonists badly

18. 5. Tea Act Protest
Boston Tea Party: 16 men disguised as Mohawk Indians throw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
It’s estimated that the protestors tossed more than 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. That’s enough to fill 18.5 million teabags. The present-day value of the destroyed tea has been estimated at around $1 million.

20. 6. Intolerable Acts – to punish colonists in Boston (closed harbor, Quarter soldiers, Brits are law enforcement)

21. 1st Continental Congress
i. Colonies send delegates (representatives) to discuss action against Britain.
ii. LAST STRAW: Patrick Henry “give me liberty or give me death”

22. "Shot heard 'round the world"
2 separate battles north of Boston.
Colonists had been stock piling ammunition
No one knows who fired first.
British suffered 237 death, colonists less than 100
Lexington & Concord
"Shot heard 'round the world"

24. Time out 5. Why did the British levy more taxes against the Colonists?
6. What was the colonists’ argument against taxation by the British?
7. Explain the importance of the Stamp Act. What colonial group was formed in response to the Stamp Act?
8. Explain the Boston Massacre (who, what, why). What group was formed as a result of the Boston Massacre?
What was the Tea Act? What was the colonial response to the Tea Act?
10. What was the British government’s response to the Boston Tea Party? What did the colonists call these Acts? What colony was Britain punishing with these acts? What group was formed as result of these acts?
11. What group was formed after the Battles of Lexington and Concord? Who was named commander of the Continental Army?