Chapter 6 The Road to the Revolution

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Chapter 6The Road to the Revolution
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THINK ABOUT THIS?

• The King of England started to tax the colonists
  for different reasons.
• The colonists didnt want to pay the taxes
• WHAT IS A TAX?
• A fee imposed by the
  government people MUST pay.

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The Colonies Britain Grow Apart

• During the French Indian War, colonies
  Britain fought side by side.
• Proclamation of 1763
• no colonists could settle west of the Appalachian
  Mountains

Proclamation Line
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King George III

• King George III, the British King during the
  Revolutionary War
• wanted to enforce the Proclamation so he sent
  10,000 British troops into the colonies.

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Quartering Act Sugar Act

• 1765 Parliament passed the Quartering Act
• This required colonist to house, feed, provide
  supplies for British soldiers
• 1764 Parliament passed the Sugar Act
• This put a tax on sugar molasses
  brought into America (used to cook)
• WHY?
• Britain had a large debt from the French Indian
  War and needed .

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Taxation Without Representation

• Many colonists claimed Parliament (British
  government) had no right to tax the colonists
  without asking permission.
• Colonists were not represented in Parliament.
• No Taxation Without Representation!

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Stamp Act

• 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act
• all legal commercial documents must have an
  official stamp showing a tax had been paid on the
  document
• Ex newspapers, diplomas, contracts, playing
  cards
• Colonial merchants organized a boycott
  of British goods as a result of
  the Stamp Act.
• Boycott is a refusal to buy goods

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Sons of Liberty / Townshend Acts

• Many colonists formed secret societies to oppose
  British rule.
• Sons of Liberty
• staged protests against the acts
• Samuel Adams was their leader
• 1767 the Townshend Acts passed
• placed taxes on goods the colonists used daily
• glass, paper, paint, lead and tea

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Boston Massacre

• In 1770
• British soldiers and colonists began shouting
  insults, then throwing snowballs at each other
• A fight broke out and British soldiers fired
• 5 Americans died
• Crispus Attucks

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The Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks?
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Tea Act

• 1773 Parliament passed Tea Act
• A tax put on tea brought into the colonies

• Samuel Adams began to form committees of
  correspondence
• groups who exchanged letters and information on
  colonial affairs

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Boston Tea Party

• As a result of the Tea Act, colonists dressed up
  to look like Mohawk Indians
• They boarded British ships carrying goods into
  the Boston Harbor
• dumped only the tea from the ships into the
  Boston Harbor

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The Boston Tea Party
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Intolerable Acts

• A series of laws passed by Parliament
• Intolerable Acts
• Closed the port of Boston
• Made town meetings illegal
• Had to house British troops
• British officials could go to Britain to go on
  trial

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First Continental Congress

• Delegates (members) from all colonies met in
  Philadelphia, Penn
• First Continental Congress
• Agreed to begin training troops for war
• Wanted to fight for colonists rights
  independence
• Banned trade with Britain

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TO ARMS!!

• By the end of 1774, colonists began to prepare
  for a war
• Militia force of armed civilians ready to fight
  for their country.
• Minutemen civilian men ready to
• act at a minutes warning
• Redcoats nickname for British
• soldiers

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Paul Revere

• Paul Revere
• rode to Lexington and Concord (Massachusetts)
• British troops
• were going to attack militia and steal artillery
• wanted to capture Hancock and Adams

The British are coming, the British are coming!!
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Paul Reveres Ride
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Lexington and Concord

• British troops found about 70 minutemen waiting.
• Shots were firedthe war had begun
• the shot heard round the world
• the first battles of the Revolutionary War

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Patriots and Loyalists

• Those who supported the British in the war were
  called Loyalists.

• Those who supported the colonists (rebels) in the
  war were called Patriots.

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The Continental Army

• The Continental Army began to form
• army of colonists fighting for independence
• Over 20,000 militiamen showed up in Boston
• George Washington
• Commanding General

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Battle of Bunker Hill

• British soldiers forced the militia off the hill
  in a very bloody battle
• 1,000 British killed or wounded
• 400 militiamen killed

• British redcoats
  won this battle

Dont fire til you see the whites of their
eyes!
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Thomas Paine

• Thomas Paine wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense
• a complete break away from England was necessary
• sold 120,000 in 3 months

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Lets Declare Independence!

• A group was chosen to draft a document called the
  Declaration of Independence
• On July 4, 1776 (Independence Day) Congress
  adopted
• Thomas Jefferson
• wrote in 17 days

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Declaration of Independence

• Whats in the Declaration?
• unalienable rights
• Reasons for separating from Britain
• Declared colonies to be free and independent
  states

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Unalienable Rights

• Unalienable right
• a right that cannot be taken away

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal, that they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness.
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The Road to the Revolution
The Proclamation of 1763
Townshend Acts 1767
Stamp Act 1765
Boston Massacre 1770
Boston Tea Party 1773
Tea Act 1773
Battles of Lexington Concord 1775
Intolerable Acts 1774
First Continental Congress 1774
Declaration of Independence written 1776
Revolutionary War begins 1775