Welcome to a Revolution

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Chapter 6 Review
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• Stamp Act
• Boston Massacre
• Townshend Acts
• Quartering Act
• Boston Tea Party
• Intolerable Acts

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The French and Indian War

• France and England competed for land in America.
• France tried to protect its land by building
  forts in the Ohio River Valley and by befriending
  the Indians.
• The English settlers angered the Indians by
  clearing forests to build farms.

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• A result of the French and Indian War was that
  France lost its lands in both America and Canada
• The Indians were not pleased with the British
  victory and some decided to fight.
• Chief Pontiac successfully fought the British
  because he was able to organize different Indian
  nations.

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The British Fan the Flames!

• The Proclamation of 1763 angered the colonists
  because it stopped them from moving west.
• Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because they
  didnt think that they should have to pay
  Britains debt from the French and Indian War.

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Sugar Act and Stamp Act

• British taxed sugar and molasses
• British imposed taxes upon all paper products and
  stamped the item once the tax had been paid.

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• The Sons and Daughters of Liberty were organized
  to protest British policies such as writs of
  assistance and the various acts.
• A writ of assistance allowed a customs officer to
  search a ships cargo without permission from the
  captain.
• The Quartering Act made colonists pay for the
  housing of British soldiers but was, in
  actuality, another form of tax because it saved
  Britain money.

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Various protests
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What do you notice first?
How are the British portrayed?
How are the colonists portrayed?
How would other colonies react to seeing this in
the paper?
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• The chief goal of the Tea Act was to raise money
  for the British East India Company which was in
  financial trouble
• The Boston Tea Party was a bold and daring move
  in which the colonists dumped thousands of pounds
  of tea into the harbor in protest of the Tea Act

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Colonists react
No Taxation Without Representation!
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• In response to the Boston Tea Party, Parliament
  created the Intolerable Acts which limited town
  meetings to once a year, shut down the port of
  Boston, and established a new Quartering Act. It
  also said that British officers who commit a
  crime would stand trial in Great Britain!

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The Shot Heard Round the World

• The Intolerable Acts angered Americans who formed
  the First Continental Congress. Delegates decided
  to unite against Britain. They agreed to boycott
  British goods, stop exporting American goods to
  England, and form militias.

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• Minutemen were busy training throughout
  Massachusetts.
• The British discovered that a large store of arms
  was being hidden in Concord and sent out troops
  to seize them by surprise.
• The Sons of Liberty saw them leave, and Paul
  Revere alerted the countryside.

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• 70 armed minutemen were waiting for the British
  in the town of Lexington outside of Concord.
• The British ordered the minutemen to go home. The
  colonists refused to obey.
• A shot rang out and the troops fired. Eight
  minutemen were killed.

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• When the British troops reached Concord, they
  found that the store of arms had already been
  removed. They headed back to Boston. Now the
  minutemen were waiting for them.
• All along the road from Concord to Boston,
  farmers, blacksmiths, saddle makers, and clerks
  hid behind trees, rocks, and fences.
• By the time the redcoats reached Boston, more
  than 200 were wounded and 73 were dead.

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• Why do people call the first gunshot at Lexington
  the Shot Heard Round the World?

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Second Continental Congress
Representatives brought money to help establish
the Continental Army (i.e. pay soldiers, buy
guns, bullets, food, and uniforms
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independence (n)
declaration (n)
an official statement

• the freedom to govern on ones own.

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Who was involved?

• Benjamin Franklin
• John Adams
• Robert R. Livingston
• Roger Sherman
• Thomas Jefferson

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Where did it all take place?

• This is a replica of the Graff house where
  Jefferson wrote the majority of the 1st draft of
  the Declaration of Independence. The original
  building (at this location) was destroyed in
  1888.

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What did it look like?
Who wrote the first draft?
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Who signed it first?
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What happened after it was signed and where is it
now?
Where did all of this end up?