1. The Road to Revolution Tighter British Control Colonial Resistance Grows The Road to Lexington & Concord Declaring Independence

2. Tighter British Control  King George III attempts to control colonies  Proclamation of 1763  Forbade colonists from moving west  Quartering Act (1764)  10,000 soldiers left from French & Indian war  Colonists required to provide housing  New taxes  Sugar act (1765)  Taxed sugar, molasses, & other products shipped to colonies  Stamp act (1766)  Required tax stamp on all legal & printed documents

3.  Colonists response  Stamp Act Congress (1765)  Parliament had no right to tax colonies  No tax can be created without colonists consent  “No Taxation without Representation”  Patrick Henry  Sons of Liberty  Formed to oppose British policies  Samuel Adams  John Hancock  Boycott  Refusal to buy British goods

4. Colonial Resistance Grows  Declaratory Act (1766)  Stated Parliament had authority to pass laws for colonies  Townshend Acts (1767)  Charles Townshend, England’s prime minister  Taxed glass, paper, paint, lead, & tea  Writs of Assistance  Allowed searches for smuggled goods  Daughters of Liberty  Urged people to make their own goods  Boston Massacre (1770)  Used by Sons of Liberty  Crispus Attucks – 1 st patriot to die  John Adams – defended the British soldiers

5.  Tea Act (1773)  All tea must be from East India Company  Committees of Correspondence  Passed secret letters from colony to colony keeping all informed of collective action  Boston Tea Party (1773)  Sons of Liberty in disguise destroyed 3 ships of tea protesting the Tea act

6. The Road to Lexington & Concord  Intolerable Acts (1774) (Coercive acts)  Closed port of Boston  Banned town meetings  Replaced elected officials with appointed ones  Increased Governor’s power  Protected British officials from trial  Allowed troops in private homes  1 st Continental Congress (1774)  All colonies except Georgia  Banned trade w/ England until Intolerable Acts repealed  Agreed to meet again in 7 months

7.  John Hancock  Committee of Safety  Minutemen  Militia ready to fight in a “minute’s” notice  Patrick Henry  “give me liberty or give me death”  Loyalists  Colonists who sided with the king  Patriots  Colonists against the king

8.  British learn that ammunition stored outside Boston  Lexington & Concord (April 19, 1775)  Paul Revere’s ride  Samuel Dawes & William Prescott  “Shot heard around the world”  700 British soldiers under Captain John Parker vs. 70 minutemen  4000 minutemen lined the road on return to Boston

9. Declaring Independence  Siege of Boston  Battle of Bunker Hill  Breed’s Hill  “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes”  2 nd Continental Congress  Continental Army is formed  George Washington chosen commander  Olive Branch Petition  Last hope for peace rejected by King George III

10.  British forced from Boston  Washington moves guns from Ticonderoga  Rebellion becomes Revolution  Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense”  Pamphlet promoting Independence  Congress moves toward Independence  Richard Henry Lee introduced resolution  “free & independent states”  Unanimous vote

11.  Declaration committee  Thomas Jefferson  John Adams  Benjamin Franklin  Roger Sherman  Robert Livingston  Declaration of Independence  Separation from England