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Title: ADVENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 176376


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ADVENT OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1763-76
2
Parliaments Initial Response to Growing
Pressures for Revenue
  • Impact of the Seven Years War (1756-63)
  • Sugar Act (1764)
  • Stamp Act (1765)

3
Response of the Local Assemblies
  • Stamp Act Congress (1765)
  • Other Types of Opposition

4
Stamp Act Protesters
5
Stamp Act Protesters
6
Stamp Act Protesters
7
Stamp Act Protesters
8
Repeal of the Stamp Act, 1767
9
Renewed Parliamentary Efforts to Impose Taxes on
the Colonists
  • Declaratory Act
  • Townshend Duties
  • Pattern of Colonial Opposition

10
British Punishment of the Local Assemblies, 1767
  • Massachusetts Assembly
  • New York Assembly

11
Violence in Boston, 1770
  • Boston Massacre

12
Boston Massacre
13
Parliaments Last Attempt to Tax the Colonists,
1773
  • Tea Act

14
Boston Tea Party
15
Boston Tea Party
16
Punishment of Boston
  • Parliaments Passage of the Coercive Acts
    (Intolerable Acts), 1773

17
Spiraling Towards Revolution, 1774-76
  • First Continental Congress (1774)
  • Warfare Battles of Lexington and Concord

18
Battle of Lexington
19
Advent of the Revolution
  • Second Continental Congress, 1775
  • Continental Army

20
Justifying the Revolution
  • Declaration of Independence

21
Declaration of Independence
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