Moving Towards Revolution:

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Moving Towards Revolution
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Moving Towards Revolution

• Why did the colonist revolt?

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1.The Colonial Economy
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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer
• -Blacksmith

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer
• -Blacksmith

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer
• -Blacksmith
• -Founder

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer
• -Blacksmith
• -Founder

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, new jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer
• -Blacksmith
• -Founder
• -Apothecary

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1.The Colonial Economy

• -Agriculture (90)
• -New York, new jersey, Pennsylvania
• -Maryland Virginia
• -Carolinas
• -Georgia
• -Fishing Whaling (5)
• -Spermaceti
• -Colonial Manufacturing (5)
• -Cooper
• -Wheelwright
• -Cordswainer
• -Blacksmith
• -Founder
• -Apothecary

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire
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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection
• -Guaranteed Markets

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection
• -Guaranteed Markets
• -No Taxes

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection
• -Guaranteed Markets
• -No Taxes
• -Disadvantages

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection
• -Guaranteed Markets
• -No Taxes
• -Disadvantages
• -No Free-trade

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2.Costs Benefits of Empire

• -Advantages
• -Protection
• -Guaranteed Markets
• -No Taxes
• -Disadvantages
• -No Free-trade
• -No Representation

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763
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The Seven Years War, 1756-1763
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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance

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Writ of assistance

• A general search warrant that allowed customs
  officials to search
• private property ships, homes, warehouses to
  determine if smuggled
• goods were present.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763

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Proclamation Line of 1763

• In order to tighten control over the colonies,
  the British enacted this law
• to prohibit from settling west of the Appalachian
  Mountains and required
• all those already in he region to withdrawal.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act

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Sugar Act

• This act imposed a tax on cloth, indigo, coffee,
  molasses, and sugar.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act

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Stamp Act

• This imposed a tax on all legal documents, such
  as licenses court
• documents, land transfers, deeds, and private
  correspondences, must
• have a stamp purchased from the British Treasury.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Patrick Henry

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act

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Quartering Act

• This required colonial authorities to provide
  barracks and supplies for
• British troops.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty

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Sons of Liberty

• A political action groups that showed their
  opposition to British
• authority by beating up tax collectors, British
  soldiers, and burning the
• homes of know loyalists.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Samuel Adams

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Boston Massacre

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Boston Massacre

• On a cold night in March of 1770, a detachment of
  British soldiers
• guarding a government building fired into a crowd
  of angry Bostonians,
• killing many.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Boston Massacre
• -Gaspee Incident

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Gaspee Incident

• The Gaspee was a British ship on patrol in Boston
  Harbor on the night of
• 9 June, 1772. That night the Gaspee spots a
  ship it suspects is
• smuggling illegal goods, pursues it and run
  aground off the coast of
• Narragansett Bay. Sons of Liberty in nearby
  Newport, RI boarded the
• ship and burnt and sunk it.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Boston Massacre
• -Gaspee Incident
• -Tea Act

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Tea Act

• This act was designed to bail out the financially
  strapped British East
• India Company by assigning a levied against all
  tea in the colonies. The
• British then flooded the colonies with the
  British East India Tea.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Boston Massacre
• -Gaspee Incident
• -Tea Act
• -Boston Tea Party

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Boston Tea Party

• Members of the the Sons of Liberty in the ports
  of Boston, Newport, RI,
• Philadelphia, and Charlestown boarded ships
  loaded with tea and
• dumped the tea into the harbor.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Boston Massacre
• -Gaspee Incident
• -Tea Act
• -Boston Tea Party
• -Intolerable Act

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Intolerable Acts

• In response to the dumping of tea, the British
  pass a number of acts
• intended to punish Boston. Boston harbor is
  closed, the writ of
• assistance is strengthen, and colonists suspected
  of dumping tea would
• be sent to London for trail by jury.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• -Writ of assistance
• -Proclamation line of 1763
• -Sugar act
• -Stamp act
• -Quartering act
• -Sons of Liberty
• -Boston Massacre
• -Gaspee Incident
• -Tea Act
• -Boston Tea Party
• -Intolerable Act
• -First Continental Congress

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First Continental Congress

• In response to the closure of Boston harbor,
  representatives from all of
• the colonies met in Philadelphia to determine how
  to help Boston.
• Although nothing was accomplished, it does
  represent the first time the
• colonies met independent of Britain.

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3.Crisis of Empire, 1763

• Lexington Concord

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Lexington Concord
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4.Conclusions