1. Events leading to Revolution American IdentityCh

2. Development of government
Standard
Main events before USA
Founding of USA
Development of government
Our government today…

3. Essential Question Relationship Conflict Change
What events created tension between Britain & the colonies, leading to Revolution ( independence)?
Relationship
Conflict
Change

4. Why did the American colonists have the rights of Englishmen?
American Colonists = British subjects living in America
Brought ideas from Great Britain
The colonists experiences with British government influenced what they thought about limited government.
The colonists expected their government to preserve their rights as English subjects.

5. Salutary Neglect Colonies were far away
Great Britain paying little attention & interfering little with the colonies
Colonists used to act on their own = ruling themselves

6. British or American??
to far away ( Salutary Neglect)
As the years past, the colonial government took on more power and responsibility.
The British colonists were living as Americans
They were building: Towns / Churches / Roads / schools / their own government
Colonies formed own elected assemblies/ representatives ( similar to House of Commons)
House of Burgesses ( Virginia)
Imposed taxes
Managed colonies
Colonies governed themselves, but England still had authority over them

7. British or American??
2. At first the British government was content at leaving the colonies alone.
( Salutary neglect)
3. But as the colonies grew more successful, Great Britain saw them as a source of great wealth.
( Mercantilism)
4. In the mid-1700s the action of Parliament led to a series of events that made some colonists see themselves as real Americans.
1. They built a thriving economy and learned they could settle their own problems without the help of Britain.

8. Events leading to revolution
Revolution = changes by force….. CONFLICT
Events leading to revolution

9. 1. Money in the Colonies
During the late 1600s and 1700s, the government of Great Britain followed a policy of mercantilism.

10. 1. Mercantilism
The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.
The British thought this would bring wealth.
This wealth would then be used to develop the nation’s industry and navy.
For the policy to work, Britain needed a source of cheap materials with which to manufacture goods.
So after ignoring the American colonies for many years, the British government began to realize the value of the colonies.

11. 1. Mercantilism & Navigation Acts
Tighter British control
By British Parliament
Laws – limiting & controlling trade within colonies
British policy was to squeeze as much wealth as possible out of America.
Supported system of Mercantilism
Parliament passed a series of laws that required the colonies to sell raw materials to Britain at low prices.
The colonists also had to buy British goods at higher prices.
English ships only
English ports
certain products sold only to England

12. 2. Great Awakening 1730’s & 1740’s in America Religious movement
Questioning
Individual worth
Thoughts of Equality
Religious / spiritual
Social
Right to challenge authority
Started changing ideas of colonists & led to social fervor - prepare them to break away from England

13. 3.French & Indian War : New land – debts & taxes
The situation became worse.
After 1763 Britain fought a long, expensive war with France and had gone into debt.
To pay its heavy war debts, Britain began to place heavy taxes on the American colonies.

14. 3. Problems with France England VS. France
Problems over land & fur trade

15. Albany Plan – “Join or Die”
During problems w/ France
Plan by colonists
“Albany Plan”
Meeting in Albany, NY
Invite Colonists to join to fight against a common enemy (French)
Political Cartoon
By Ben Franklin

16. 3. French & Indian War What? French & Indian War When? 1754-1763 Who?
British / Colonists/ Native American Allies VS
French / colonists/ Native American Allies
Why? (Cause)
Land ( Ohio River Valley )
power/ trade
Winner? British

17. French & Indian War - Consequences
Consequences? Outcomes or Effects
Treaty of Paris of 1763
End of war – England won
France lost their land: England obtain new land in America: Britain claimed all land east of Mississippi River

18. 4. After the French & Indian War Proclamation Act of 1763
Problems with Native Americans
Colonists moving across mountains into Native American lands
Proclamation Act of 1763
Prohibits colonist to settle / move west to Appalachian Mountains
Official declaration by King of England & Parliament
1763 – after French & Indian War
Banned British settlers west of Appalachian Mountains
Why? To avoid problems with Indians
Colonists were angry / will ignored it

19. VISUAL – Reading NOTES Read Ch
VISUAL – Reading NOTES Read Ch. 6 : Workbook pages or textbook pages Create visual notes explaining the events that created conflict between the British & colonists, and some tools of protest used by the colonists
Event:___________________________________
Explanation:

20. After the French & Indian War: Tighter British Control
New land New debts
New taxes in the colonies

21. Opposition to British policies Colonists complaints
Colonists … “Britain threatening our rights”
“ We are British subjects” “ We have rights”
No taxation without consent
“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”
Colonists didn’t have representatives in Parliament
Taxes take away their freedoms & rights
Against their rights as British citizens

22. Colonial Resistance Protests Boycotts- refuse to buy
Tea Party
Boycotts- refuse to buy
Committees of Correspondence
Communication within colonies ( letters)
Petition to the King
Asking the King what they wanted
Secret Societies ( “underground” groups)
Sons of Liberty
Daughters of Liberty

23. Boston Massacre - 1770 Protest – went wrong
Tension between troops & colonists
Violent event
Soldiers fire
5 colonists dead
1st time that British troops had killed colonists
Used as propaganda
Anti-British feelings
Video Clip

24. Conflicts Continue
Problems between Britain and its colonies continue….
Day of Boston Massacre a proposal to repeal the Townshend Acts
All taxes except one were eventually repealed
Tax on Tea – Tea Act ( new law)

25. Continuation of taxation To show who is boss! Tax on tea
Tea Act
Continuation of taxation
To show who is boss!
Tax on tea

26. Boston Tea Party: Colonial Response to Tea Act
Protest ( Sons of Liberty)
Disguised as Native Americans
Dumped British tea in the Boston harbor

27. British response to the Boston Tea Party: Intolerable or Coercive Acts
This did not help the situation. Parliament passed a new series of laws, which the American called the Intolerable Acts
1774
Series of laws to punish Boston, Massachusetts
Mass. Must pay tea
A warning to other colonies
Closed port of Boston
Banned committees of correspondence
Took other rights from colonists (no trial by jury)
Force colonists to house British troops (Quartering Act - AGAIN!!!)

28. Colonists response to the Intolerable Acts: 1st Continental Congress
The colonies will join, and offer their support to Massachusetts , sending food, clothing, etc.
Communication & Unity within the colonies – Committees of Correspondence
Called a meeting to discuss what to do next- First Continental Congress