The Road to the American Revolution Chapters 4.1 – 4.2: Power-Point Notes.
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The Road to the American Revolution
Chapters 4.1 – 4.2: Power-Point Notes
The Colonies Organize to Resist Britain
The huge debt the British faced from the French and Indian War caused them to enact many new policies in the Colonies
The Stamp Act The Townshend Acts The Tea Act The Intolerable Acts
The Stamp Act
March 1765, the Stamp Act is passed Samuel Adams helped found the Sons of
Liberty October 1765, Delegates from 9 colonies
met and created a Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Colonial Merchants boycotted goods being imported from Britain
March 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, but issued the Declaratory Act
The Townshend Acts 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend
Acts The colonists reacted with rage and well
organized resistance: Protested “Taxation without Representation” Samuel Adams called for another Boycott on
British goods American women in every rank organized in
protest
June 1768, British seized The Liberty
The Boston Massacre
Colonists and British soldiers often battled over jobs
March 5, 1770 – one of these fights erupts, killing 5 colonists
Samuel Adams labeled the event, The Boston Massacre
The Committees of Correspondence were set up to communicate with each other about threats to colonial liberties
The Boston “Massacre”
The Boston Tea Party
1773, the Tea Act is passed This cut colonial merchants entirely
out of the tea trade December 16, 1773 – The Boston
Tea Party Dumped 1800, pounds of the East
India Company’s tea into the Boston Harbor
The Intolerable Acts King George III was infuriated by the
Boston Tea Party 1774, Parliament passed the Intolerable
Acts: Shut down Boston Harbor Quartering Act Placed Boston under martial law
1774, the Committees of Correspondence quickly set up the First Continental Congress
Fighting Erupts at Lexington and Concord
After the First Continental Congress, many colonists declared themselves minutemen
General Gage gave orders to march along the Lexington Road to Concord
April 18, 1775: “Paul Revere’s Ride” Battle of Lexington lasts only 15 minutes Battle at Concord becomes a bloodbath
The Colonies Hover between Peace & War
Delegates had heated debates at the Second Continental Congress
Congress agreed to recognize the minutemen as the Continental Army and authorized the printing of paper money
June 17, 1775 – Battle of Bunker Hill July 8, 1775 – Olive Branch Petition is
sent to the king King George rejected the petition
The Patriots Declare Independence Common Sense by Thomas Paine became
very influential in promoting a revolutionary spirit
By summer 1776, Congress urged each colony to form its own government
Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write a formal declaration
Declaration of Independence adopted on July 4, 1776
Americans Choose Sides Colonists divided over the idea of
independence Patriots drew their numbers from people
who saw economic opportunity in an independent America
Patriots made up about half of the population
Many colonists remained loyalists Colonies were plunged into two wars
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