1. Intolerable Acts of 1773
Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the Massachusetts colony.

2. Intolerable Acts of 1773
Quartering Act, which allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings if barracks were not available

3. First Continental Congress
Assembled because Americans demanded more rights.
Were used to doing things on their own.
Took on more power and responsibility
Intolerable Acts led to 1st Continental Congress.

4. First Continental Congress
The first Continental Congress assembled in Carpenters' Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 5, 1774
represented by forty-four delegates
Delegates-representatives to a meeting or governing body

5. First Continental Congress
The leaders included Samuel Adams and John Adams of Massachusetts and George Washington and Patrick Henry of Virginia.

6. First Continental Congress
The Congress sent a document to King George III demanding the colonists rights be restored.

7. Kings response
In battles took place at Concord and Lexington, MA which became the first battles of the Revolutionary War.

8. Kings response
Americans begin questing their loyalty to the king since he is now shooting at them.
Independence from Britain is now being debated.
Independence-self-reliance and freedom from outside control

9. 2nd Continental Congress
Convened in May 1775
Some members believed the colonies could not win a war against Britain

10. 2nd Continental Congress
Inspiration for independence was Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense

11. Common Sense
Published just as colonists learned of George III's speech proclaiming the American colonies in rebellion.

12. Common Sense
Common Sense advocated America’s independence from Great Britain.
Common Sense laid the philosophical groundwork for American independence.

13. Common Sense
Paine's political pamphlet brought the rising revolutionary sentiment into sharp focus by placing blame for the suffering of the colonies directly on the reigning British monarch, George III.

14. Common Sense
Common Sense advocated an immediate declaration of independence, postulating a special moral obligation of America to the rest of the world.

15. Common Sense
Little did Paine realize that his writings would set fire to a movement.
Paine has been described as a professional radical and a revolutionary propagandist by the British.