A Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations The Causes of the American Revolution USHC 1.2 Analyze… the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.
A Long Train of Abuses (USHC 1.2)
Nov 14, 2014
The sequence of events leading to the American Revolution, from the French and Indian War to the Battles of Lexington and Concord
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A Long Train
of Abuses
and UsurpationsThe Causes of the American Revolution
USHC 1.2Analyze… the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and... that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…
Salutary Neglect
The French and Indian War 1754-63
WarsCostMoney
British National Debt
1754 1763 1764£0
£20,000,000
£40,000,000
£60,000,000
£80,000,000
£100,000,000
£120,000,000
£140,000,000
Following the French and Indian War
Cost of Quartering
Troopsin the colonies
Salutary NeglectNO MORE
Proclamation Line of
1763
Parliament Taxes the Colonies
1. Sugar Act (1764)2. Stamp Act (1765)3. Townshend Acts (1767)
The Sugar ActIMPORT Tax
on Foreign Sugar
1764
ADMIRALTY COURTS
Jury Trials
The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax
on legal documents
1765
MASS RESISTANCE
BoycottsMob Violence
NO
TAXATION
WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Taxing Authority
HERE
HERE
NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament, where their representatives could have been outnumbered. They believed that only their representatives in their own colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.
Resistance Movement(s)
Sons of Liberty
IntimidationMass Protests
Homespun Fabric
Daughters of Liberty
Reduced dependence
on British textiles
The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax
on legal documents
1765
MASS RESISTANCE
BoycottsMob ViolenceREPEALE
D
Parliament’s Not Done
Townshend ActsTax on Imports
1767
These
Guys Agai
n
More of
These
Guys
Confrontation between
British Troops and a
Rowdy Mob
Boston Massacre1770
NOT GUILT
Y
Townshend ActsTax on Imports
1767
REPEALEDWith one
exception...
Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that
we can’t!
The Chain
of Events• Tea Act• Boston Tea Party• Intolerable Acts• Lexington &
Concord
Leading to the Revolution
Photo Credit: Darwin Bell
ParliamentGrants a
Monopolyto a BritishCompany
The Tea Act 1773
Photo Credit: John-Morgan
Boston Tea Party
1773
Intolerable Acts
1774
MARTIAL
LAW
Intolerable Acts
1774
Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Administration of Justice Act
Quartering Act
Quebec Act
Photo Credit : Jeanette Runyon
The Minuteman
Photo Credit: Rachel Ford James
The Minuteman
OBJECTIVE:Seize the Arsenal
Lexington & Concord
1775
THE SHOTheard ‘round the world
Image Courtesy of The National Guard
Artist: Don Troiani
Lexington & Concord
1775
The British Retreat
Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies...The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
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