1. The Road to Revolution Cont’d
So far:
Sugar Act
Quartering Act
Stamp Act

2. Colonial Means of Resistance
Nonimportation agreements
Petitions
Boycotts
Public defiance

3. Sons/Daughters of Liberty
“Liberty, Property, and No Stamps”
Enforced nonimportation acts against violators
Tarred and feathered
Ransacked officials homes
Effigies

4. Forced Repeal of the Stamp Act
Machinery for collecting taxes had been broken down
Stamp agents forced to resign
No one to sell stamps
Nullification?

5. British response to colonial protests
Americans bought ¼ of British exports and ½ British shipping devoted to American trade
British also began protesting and calling for repeal of the Stamp Act

6. Parliamentary Response
Just didn’t understand
7.5 million Britons paid heavy taxes
2 million colonists refused to pay 1/3rd of cost of defense

7. 1766
Parliament repealed Stamp Act
Passed Declaratory Act

8. Charles Townshend
Speaker of House of Commons
“Champagne Charley”

9. Townshend Acts New duty/tax
Revenue supposed to pay salaries of royal governors/judges in colonies
Suspicious colonists
More nonimportation agreements but really just more smuggling

10. Breakdown of law/chaos
March 5, 1770
Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks

11. Paul Revere, 1770

13. 1856

16. Effects of the Townshend Acts
Failed to produce revenue
Produced rebellion
1770, repealed except for the tea tax

17. Samuel Adams
Organized Committees of Correspondence

18. Committees of Correspondence
Spread “the spirit of resistance” by writing letters
Spread to inter-colonial committees
Evolved into first American Congress

19. Tea Brewing in Boston
1773- colonists angry but not necessarily rebellious

20. British East India Tea Company

21. British East India Tea Company
Had lots and lots and lots of extra tea
British government would lose a lot of $ if tea didn’t sell
British government gave the BEITC a monopoly over tea sales in the colonies

22. British East India Tea Company
Technically the tea was cheaper!
Colonists did not care, saw this as an attempt to get them to accept the tea tax…
And flipped the out

23. Colonial Reactions
PA and NY- colonists forced tea ships to turn around
MD- ship and tea burned
SC- tea confiscated (later sold and used to fund Revolution)

24. Boston MA governor forced ships into harbor despite protests
December 16, Boston Tea Party
Indian disguise: threatening and concealed identity

28. Intolerable Acts 1774- designed to punish, especially Boston
“the massacre of American liberty”
Boston Port Act- closed port
New Quartering Act

29. Quebec Act 1774 French in Canada:
Allowed to keep religion/culture/language
Sustained unrepresentative assemblies and denial of jury trials

30. Colonial Reaction
ANGRY!!!!!!!
“jubilee in hell over gain for Popery”

31. Continental Congress: 1774
Philadelphia
12/13 colonies represented
(Georgia……..)
Sam and John Adams, George Washington, Patrick Henry, BFFs made

32. Continental Congress: 1774
Wrote the Declaration of Rights
Created The Association

33. Continental Congress: 1774
NOT CALLING FOR INDEPENDENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

34. Lexington and Concord
“The British are coming…”

35. Jack Black vs. Paul Revere…. Vampire?

37. Lexington and Concord
“shot heard round the world”
Colonial win-ish

38. Colonial vs. British Strengths and Weaknesses

39. African Americans in Revolution
Colonial
British
About 5,000 enlisted by end of war
Majority from the north
Lots of free blacks
1775- British guaranteed freedom to any slave that enlisted
“Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment”
After war- British evacuated about 14,000 blacks to Nova Scotia, Jamaica, and England