1. On our way to becoming an American nation
The Road to Revolution
On our way to becoming an American nation

2. English Colonial Policy
Mercantilism
Colonies exist for the overall benefit of the “mother country”
Favorable balance of trade
Export more than import
Increase holding of gold

3. English Colonial Policy
Trade & Navigation Acts
Enumerated Commodities
-Molasses Act
-Hat Act
-Woolen Act
-Iron Act
Result: Attempted to Cut Out Colonial Competition

4. Salutary Neglect – Babe in the Wilderness
Non-interference/Non-enforcement of law
Distance
Ineffective Tax Commissioners
Result: Americans obeyed the laws that helped them; ignored the laws that hurt them.

5. How Long Did Salutary Neglect Last?
150 Years!!
Result: “The American Character”
-self-government
-self-reliance

6. Things are About to Change
*conflicts handout

7. Why Things are About to Change
The French & Indian War ( )
-Ohio Territory
>strategic location
>frontier fears
-Triggers European war
(7 years)
Result: Big shift in how
Europeans look at
America
*F/I map

8. Albany Congress/Albany Plan of Union (1754)
Proposed by
Benjamin Franklin
-Manage Indians
-Control Expansion
JOIN OR DIE!
Rejected! Rejected?

9. The British Win the French & Indian War – Now What?
Treaty of Paris, 1763
>Redraws the map of
North America
>”England to the
Mississippi”
Result: huge war debt, how to
govern a larger empire

10. The Price of Victory
Colonies no longer required protection from the French
England in urgent need of money
$$Largest empire since Rome
$$Canada
$$Continuing fear of France
$$English people cannot pay more
Result: Change in British Policy>Cost of the Empire…Colonies/England

11. Reigning in the Colonies

12. Tightening Control Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac’s Rebellion
(Ottawa)
Proclamation of 1763
-restricted expansion beyond Appalachians
-1st attempt to control the lives of Americans

13. Stricter Enforcement of British Law
-10,000 Redcoats and Hessians
-Writs of Assistance

14. “No taxation without representation”
New Taxes
>Sugar Act
>Stamp Act – DIRECT TAX!
-Sons of Liberty Boycotts & More
“No taxation without representation”

15. British Response Declaratory Act – declares British authority
Townshend Acts – paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea
Quartering Act –
*causes HO

16. The Question of Representation
Does Parliament have the authority to pass and enforce laws over the colonies?
Great Britain – YES! Virtual Representation
Colonies – NO! Actual Representation

17. Agitation & Protest
Boston Massacre
1770

18. Agitation & Protest Boston Tea Party-1773 Britain’s Response:
-Intolerable Acts (AM)
Coercive Acts (GB)

19. 1st Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Olive Branch Petition (can’t we all just get along?)

20. “Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”
The Pen & The Voice
Thomas Paine
The Pen of the Revolution
“Common Sense”
Patrick Henry
The Voice of the Revolution
“Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death”
*P/J HO

21. …And So It Begins Lexington & Concord 1775 2nd Continental Congress
The Declaration of Independence, 1776
Thomas Jefferson