Road to Revolution

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Road to Revolution

• Review Game

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• Why did the Iroquois decide to side with the
  British in the French and Indian War?

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• By the mid-1700s as the British moved into the
  Ohio Valley the Iroquois were pressured into
  extending special trading rights to the British
  and hesitantly became their Allies

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• How did the British and the colonists differ on
  the issue of taxes?

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• The colonists believed that only their own
  representatives had the right to tax them.
• The British believed that the colonists were
  their royal subjects and that the colonists
  should pay part of the cost of both the French
  and Indian War and for the troops stationed in
  the colonies.
• They believed that they were protecting the
  colonists from harm

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• Why did hostilities between the French and Great
  Britain increase during the 1740s?

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• For years Britain and France had been fighting
  against each other for wealth and empire in
  different parts of the world.
• Both forces also wanted to control lands west of
  the Appalachian Mountains.
• The French believed the territory was their own
  and they did not want the British to have access
  to their profitable fur trade.

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• A group of civilians trained to fight in
  emergencies is called the ______________.

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• militia

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• Why did Ben Franklin propose the Albany Plan of
  Union? What was the result?

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• Ben Franklin created the Albany Plan of Union in
  an attempt to form a united colonial government.
• However, no colony was willing to give up any of
  its power.
• The Albany Plan failed to unite the colonists
  against the French.

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• What was the Stamp Act?

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• 1765 - The Stamp Act placed a tax on almost all
  printed material, including newspapers, wills and
  playing cards.
• All printed material needed a stamp and the stamp
  was only issued after payment.

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• What impact did the French Indian War have on
  the colonists?

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• Fight as well as English soldiers
• George Washington gained experience as commander
• Colonists felt less dependent on England as a
  protective mother country
• Began to think of themselves as Americans
• Showed early attempts to increase their strength

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• What advantages did the British gain by limiting
  western settlement?

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• They controlled westward movement and avoided
  conflict with the Natives
• Keeping them near east coast ensured markets for
  British goods.
• British could control the fur trade in the
  frontier (out west).

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• Their network of _________________, or unions,
  with Native Americans allowed the French to
  control large areas of land, stretching from the
  St. Lawrence River in Canada all the way south to
  New Orleans.

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• alliances

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• How did the Townshend Acts help cause the Boston
  Massacre?

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• 1767 new taxes only applied to imported goods
  glass, tea, and paper tax paid at ports before
  entry into the colonies.
• The Colonists now believed that ANY British taxes
  were unacceptable and so the colonists continued
  with their boycotts and other forms of resistance.

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• What was the Proclamation of 1763?

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• Britain issued a warning with the Proclamation of
  1763.
• To prevent more fighting between the settlers and
  the natives Britain sought to stop westward
  expansion.
• The Appalachian mountains would act as a western
  boundary for the colonies.
• This angered individuals who already bought land
  out west.

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• Why did some colonists smuggle goods?

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• The colonists smuggled goods to avoid taxes.

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• The _____________________ of 1763 forced France
  to give Canada and most of its lands east of the
  Mississippi River to Great Britain.
• Great Britain also received Florida from Frances
  ally, Spain.
• It marked the end of France as a power in North
  America.

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• Treaty of Paris

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• These legal documents allowed customs officers to
  enter any location to search for smuggled goods.

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• Writs of Assistance

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• Why did Paul Revere and Sam Adams publish the
  famous Bloody Massacre illustration the day
  after the encounter?

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• Colonial leaders used the killings as propaganda
  information made to influence public opinion.
• Samuel Adams Paul Revere put up posters that
  showed a slaughter of innocent Americans by
  bloodthirsty redcoats to get them to want to
  fight.

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• Why did the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act
  insult and anger the colonists?

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• The colonists felt as though their rights as
  British citizens were being violated.
• Coercive Acts forced Bostonians to pay for the
  ruined tea by closing the Boston Harbor thereby
  cutting off all supplies, food and clothing to
  Mass.
• Instituted the Quartering Act colonists were
  forced to shelter British soldiers in their own
  homes.
• Prohibited all town meetings.
• Quebec Act set up a government for Quebec.
• It gave Quebec the area west of the Appalachians
  and north of the Ohio River.
• This ignored colonial claims to the area.

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• Britain needed new _________________, or incoming
  money, to pay troop expenses.

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• Revenue

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• The Iroquois Confederacy settled primarily in
  _________________ and consisted of what 6 nations?

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• New York
• Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and
  Tuscarora.

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• What was the Sugar Act?

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• 1764 lowered the tax on imported molasses (type
  of sugar) thinking that this would stop colonists
  from smuggling.
• The act also let officers seize goods from
  smugglers without having them go to court.

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• This individual helped start an organization
  called the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp
  Act, as well as other taxes and injustices
  imposed on the colonists.

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• Samuel Adams

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• What were the strengths and weaknesses of the
  French and British during the French Indian War?

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• In the colonies, merchants decided to
  ______________ stamps. They refused to buy
  British and European goods in protest. Thousands
  of merchants also signed _________________
  agreements or pledges not to buy or use goods
  imported from Britain.

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• Boycott
• Non-importation

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• Why did Pontiac want the Native Americans to join
  forces?

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• Pontiac, the chief of an Ottawa village felt that
  the British were a threat to his peoples way of
  life.
• Pontiac wanted the Native American groups to
  unite to fight the British.
• As a result, Pontiacs War would occur Native
  Americans killed settlers along the PA and VA
  frontier. They were defeated by the British.

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• Opposition to the Stamp Act centered on what two
  main facts?

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• Parliament had interfered in colonial affairs by
  taxing the colonists directly.
• It taxed the colonists without their consent.

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• Was massacre an appropriate term to describe
  the encounter? Explain why or why not.

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• Most would argue that it is not an appropriate
  term because the fight/riot was not unprovoked
  and because only 5 were killed.
• Colonists verbally taunted the British soldiers
• They threw snowballs packed with ice and oyster
  shells and they came armed with clubs.
• It was believed that the first shot was fired by
  the British accidentally and that the rest of the
  fight was a result of self-defense.

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• Used in earlier protests, the ____________________
  ___ was an organization where colonists could air
  their grievances against Great Britain.

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• Committee of Correspondence

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• What caused the Boston Tea Party?

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• 1773 British East India Company faced
  bankruptcy.
• Parliament passed the Tea Act to prevent this
  allowed the company a monopoly sole control
  of trade for tea in America.
• This act let the company sell tea directly to the
  shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants who
  normally distributed the tea
• As a result the colonial merchants called for a
  new boycott and vowed to stop the East India
  Companys ships from unloading.
• But despite warnings the East India Company
  shipped tea to a number of colonial cities.

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• In September 1774, 55 delegates from all the
  colonies except Georgia arrived in Philadelphia
  to establish a political body to represent
  American interests and to challenge British
  control. This new organization was called the
  ______________________.

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• Continental Congress

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• The British had a ___________ or sole control of
  the trade for tea in America.

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• monopoly

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• What decisions were made by the Continental
  Congress?

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• Drafted a statement of grievances calling for the
  repeal of 13 acts of Parliament.
• The delegates voted to boycott British trade no
  British goods could be brought in or used in the
  colonies and no colonial goods could be sold to
  Britain.
• Congress also endorsed Suffolk Resolves these
  resolutions called on the people of the county to
  arm themselves against the British.

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• What impact did the Boston Massacre have on both
  the colonists and the British?

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• The Boston Massacre led many colonists to call
  for stronger boycotts on British goods.
• Aware of the opposition, Parliament repealed the
  Townshend Acts taxes all except the one on tea.

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• Three ships arrived in Boston Harbor in 1773.
• The royal governor refused to let the ships leave
  and ordered them to be unloaded.
• On December 16, 1773 a group of men disguised as
  Mohawks and African Americans boarded the ships
  at midnight.
• There they threw 342 chests of tea overboard.
• This event was known as _________________.

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• The Boston Tea Party