Causes of the American Revolution 1763 - 1775

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Causes of the American Revolution 1763 - 1775
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Pontiacs War - 1763

• After 1760 English settlers moved west
• Lord Jeffrey Amherst sent to frontier
• Amherst raised the price of trade goods
• Amherst allowed settlers to build farms and forts
  on Indian land

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Pontiacs War - 1763

• Ottawa Chief Pontiac emerged as a leader
• Pontiac attacked Ft.Detroit
• Indians captured most British forts in Ohio
  Country
• British and colonial troops regained most of them

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Pontiacs War - 1763

• Treaty of Paris ended French power in North
  America
• Native Americans couldnt count on French support
• Pontiacs War ended

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King George III and William Pitt
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England in Debt

• William Pitts policies to win the French and
  Indian War in North America left England in debt.
• King George III and Parliament felt colonists
  should be paying more of the costs
• Mercantilism colonies exist for the good of the
  Mother Country

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England in Debt

• Mercantilism colonies produce raw materials for
  the Mother country and buy her manufactured goods
• Navigation Acts Law passed by Parliament in the
  1660s and 1670s to put Mercantilism into
  practice
• Salutary Neglect Navigation Acts not enforced
  so colonists would have the money to buy British
  goods

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Proclamation of 1763 Proclamation Line

• Drew a line down the middle of the Appalachian
  Mountains

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Proclamation of 1763

• No white settlement west of the line
• Fur Traders must get a license
• 10,000 British troops stationed in the colonies
  to patrol the frontier

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Sugar Act and Stamp Act

• Parliament Law making body in England
• Sugar Act Regulate Trade
• Stamp Act Raise Revenue
• Regulate Trade vs. Raise Revenue
• No Taxation Without Representation

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Sugar Act - 1764

• George Grenville Prime Minister
• Regulate Trade
• Lower tax on sugar and molasses
• Collect the tax
• Stop smuggling

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Stamp Act - 1765

• Raise Revenue
• Tax stamp required on legal documents wills,
  marriage papers, newspapers, almanacs, playing
  cards and dice

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Stamp Act Crisis 1765 - 1766

• No Taxation Without Representation
• Methods of Protest
• Peaceful Stamp Act Congress New York City 9
  colonies petition
• Violent Sons of Liberty
• Economic - Boycott

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Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty
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Sons of Liberty
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Patrick Henry Virginia House of Burgesses If
this be treason then make the most of it
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Stamp Act Crisis

• Stamp Act repealed in 1766
• Parliament passes the Declaratory Act

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Death of Anne Stamp
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Townshend Acts - 1767

• Charles Townshend Prime Minister
• Taxes on paint, paper, lead, glass and tea
• Writs of Assistance blanket search warrants

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Methods of Protest

• Peaceful petition
• Violent Sons of Liberty and Daughters of
  Liberty
• Economic Non importation agreements

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Sons and Daughters of Liberty
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Colonial Leaders
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Boston Massacre - 1770
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Boston Massacre - 1770

• Townshend Duties repealed except for a tax on tea
• British troops removed from Boston
• Committees of Correspondence organized by Sam
  Adams

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Boston Tea Party - 1773

• Tea Act British East India Company
• Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor

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Intolerable Acts ( Coersive Acts)1774

• Boston Port Bill Boston Harbor closed until the
  tea is paid for

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Intolerable ( Coersive ) Acts - 1774

• Massachusetts Government Act
• Massachusetts Assembly dissolved
• Boston under martial law
• Thomas Gage military governor

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Intolerable ( Coersive ) Acts - 1774

• Quartering Acts
• 1765 troops quartered in public buildings and
  public greens
• 1774 troops quartered in peoples homes

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Intolerable ( Coersive ) Acts - 1774

• Quebec Act
• Established the boundaries of the Quebec Colony
• Allowed the Catholic religion in Quebec
• No elected assembly

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First Continental Congress - 1774

• Albany Congress 1754 - 7 of 13 colonies
• Stamp Act Congress 1765 New York City - 9 of
  13 colonies
• First Continental Congress 1774 Philadelphia
  12 of 13 colonies

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First Continental Congress

• Voted to cut off colonial trade with England
  unless Intolerable Acts abolished
• Advise colonies to begin training citizens for
  war
• Wanted to define American rights, place limits
  on Parliaments power and agree on tactics to
  resist aggressive acts of the English government
• Set up a Colonial Association to enforce an
  embargo against England

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Patrick Henry March, 1775 Give Me Liberty or
Give Me Death
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Colonial Leaders