1. Road to Revolution

2. Resistance Felt British did not care about their needs
Britain in financial crisis
Tighten laws against smuggling
Writs of assistance --- search warrant
Searching business --- homes

3. Mercantilism Justified control over the colonies
Benefit mother country
Currency problems
Royal Veto
Favorable Balance of Trade
Export more than Import
Navigation Laws = 1650
Transported only on British ships
Salutary Neglect

4. Sugar Act 1764 Increased the duty on foreign made molasses
West Indies
Taxed imports = not been taxed before
Those accused of smuggling would be tried in vice-admiralty court
Had little impact on colonists

5. Quartering Act 1765 Provide food and shelter for redcoats
Use Stamp Act to pay for new military force

6. Stamp Act 1765 Tax on documents and printed items
Wills, Newspapers, Playing cards
Stamp = prove that tax had been paid
Boycott British goods until Stamp Act was repealed
March Parliament repealed law

7. Resistance Stamp Act Congress – 1765 Sons of Liberty
27 delegates / 9 states
Intercolonial unity
Nonimportation Agreements
Protests
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty
Sam Adams
Committees of Correspondence
Spread resistance

8. Declaratory Act 1766 Passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed
“Bind the colonies and people of America in all cases whatsoever”

9. Townshend Acts
1767
Taxed goods that were imported into the colony from Britain
Lead, glass, paint, and paper
Tax on tea
Pay salaries = Governors/Judges
Boycotted British goods
Sam Adams

10. Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 Taunted British soldiers
Shot accidentally fired
11 killed / wounded
Townsend Act costing more to enforce
Repealed Act
Kept tax on tea

12. Tea Act 1773 British East India Company
Going bankrupt
Allowed to sell tea to the colonies free of taxes
Cut colonial merchants out of tea trade
Colonists did not want to buy cheaper tea

13. Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773 Boston rebels board British ships
Dressed as Native Americans
Dumped 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston harbor

14. Intolerable Acts 1774 Shut down Boston Harbor Quartering Act
Boston Port Act
Quartering Act
House soldiers in vacant private homes and other buildings
Thomas Gage
Appointed the new Governor of Massachusetts
Placed Boston under martial law --- military force

15. Quebec Act French guaranteed their Catholic Religion
Retain old customs
Boundaries extended southward to Ohio River

16. First Continental Congress
September 1774
55 Delegates – Philadelphia
12 / 13 Colonies represented
7 weeks
Drew up Declaration of Colonial Rights
Right to run own affairs
If British used force colonist would fight back
Established militia
Stockpiled firearms - gunpowder

17. Cont. Association Complete boycott of British goods Nonimportation
Nonexportation
Nonconsumption

18. Lexington and Concord April 18 1775 Paul Revere
Sent warning out
700 British troops = Redcoats
Headed to Concord
70 minutemen - Lexington
8 minutemen killed wounded
1 British soldier injured
First Battle of the Revolutionary War

19. Concord Redcoats marched on to Concord Arsenal was empty
Headed back
3,000 – 4,000 minutemen assemble now
Fired on the troops as they marched home

20. Imperial Strength/Weakness
Strengths
7.5 million Brits to 2.5 colonists
Naval power
Professional army v. militia
Hessians
Loyalists / Native Americans
Weaknesses
Sympathy
Distance
Geography

21. American Strength/Weakness
Weaknesses
Disorganized
Jealousy / States /Sectional
Continental / Inflation / Currency
Deserters
Supplies
Strengths
Leadership
European officers
Fighting Defensively
Self sustaining
Moral Cause