Years of Tumult 1763-1770

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Years of Tumult 1763-1770
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Salutory Neglect

• Navigation acts, Prohibiting paper currency,
  Regulating trade
• Robert Walpoles attitude
• Confusion and corruption of government

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Attitude of colonists

• Little Parliaments
• Little England
• Albany Plan
• Benjamin Franklin

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The Wars Resume

• War of Jenkins EarKing Georges WarSeven Years
  War ( French and Indian war) Conflict over the
  Ohio River Valley
• Virginia fights back Robert
  Dinwiddie Fort Necessity Impressments
• Germ warfare The Cajuns

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The Glorious Victory

• William Pitt General Wolfe Attacking
  QuebecPeace of Paris

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Gains of the Seven Years War

• Conflicts of interest
• British Canada
• Sugar islands
• British rule in Canada
• French
• Indians
• General Sir Jeffrey Amherst
• Pontiacs Rebellion
• Proclamation Line of 1763

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Map of Ohio River Valley Region
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The Redcoats in the Colonies

• The Quartering Act
• Establishing Parliamentary rule over the colonies
• William Pitt and the English national debt

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George Grenville (1763)

• Changing the Molasses Act
• American Revenue Act (Sugar Act of 1764)
• New Englands reaction
• Whigs
• Elected assemblies
• Trial by jury
• Boycotting imports

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• The Currency Act (1764)
• Post war economic depression
• Middling class outrage
• Distribution of pamphlets
• Reduction of the tax on molasses

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The Stamp Act of 1765

• Acts of noncompliance
• Vice-admiralty Courts
• John Dickinson
• Sons of Liberty
• Boycotts and violence
• Virginia resolves
• Patrick Henry
• The Stamp Act Congress
• James Otis
• Declaration of Rights and Grievances
• Lese-majeste

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The Stamp Tax

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The British Constitution

• Ideals of the Magna Carta
• Conflicts over representation
• Colonial viewpoint
• British viewpoint
• Virtual representation

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King George III
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King George III

• Kings friends
• Dismissal of Grenville
• Lord Rockingham (July 1765-1766)
• Repeal of the Stamp Act
• Declaratory Act
• Protest back at home
• Lord Chatham (William Pitt)

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Charles Townshend (1766-1767)

• Townshend Duties
• Charles Townshend
• Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) 1765
• Disbanding the New York assembly (army hq)
• Taxes on imports (external taxes)
• From Eng. lead, paint, paper tea
• BoycottsAmerican goods becomes fashionable
• Massachusetts Assembly
• Circular letter
• Lord North
• Repeal of the Townshend Duties 

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Riot to Rebellion 1770-1776
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The colonies in 1763

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Hostilities in the colonies

• The problem with the Redcoats
• Working classes and competition
• The role of alcohol
• The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
• British Captain Thomas Prescott
• Liberty boys
• Paul Revere
• Samuel Adams
• John Adams
• Crispus Attucks
• The Trial of the Century
• Internal disputes
• The Regulators

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The Boston Massacre

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Crispus Attucks

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Paul Revere

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Samuel Adams

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John Adams

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The March toward War

• Leaders of the rebellion
• James Otis
• Writs of assistance
• Patrick Henry
• Give me liberty or give me death
• Samuel Adams

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Patrick Henry

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The Tea Act of 1773

• The Gaspee incident (1772)
• East India Co.
• Mercy Otis Warren
• The Daughters of Liberty
• Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16, 1773)
• Thomas Hutchinson

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The Intolerable Acts

• Closing Boston ports
• A new governor and new policy
• A new government
• Quartering Act of 1774
• Quebec Act of 1774

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Turning toward revolution

• Committees of Correspondence
• Continental Congress
• Philadelphia
• The delegates
• The Suffolk Resolves
• Loyalty to the King
• Raising an army (the militia)
• Minutemen

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The Midnight Ride

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Paul Revere

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First Blows

• Lexington and Concord
• Paul Revere, William Dawes Samuel Prescott
• Sniping
• British retreat
• Another intolerable act
• Restriction of the Grand Banks

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First Blows (cont)

• Battle of Bunker Hill (Breeds Hill)
• General Howe
• British victory
• Fort Ticonderoga
• Green mountain boys
• Ethan Allen

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Benedict Arnold

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General Sir William Howe

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Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

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Second Continental Congress

• Finding a General
• George Washington
• Declaration of the Cause Necessity of Taking
  Up Arms
• Common Sense
• Thomas Paine

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The Constitutional Convention

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General George Washington

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Voting for Independence

• The Declaration of Independence
• The Committee
• Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, John
  Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin
• The issue of slavery
• Signing the declaration of independence
• John Hancock
• Increasing risk
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What kind of men were the signers?

• 24 were lawyers and judges
• 11 were merchants
• 9 were farmers large plantation owners
• All were well educated

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Who said Freedom was Free?

• What happened to the 56 men who signed the
  Declaration of Independence?
• 5 were captured by the British as traitors and
  tortured before they died
• 12 had their homes ransacked and burned
• 2 lost their sons during the war
• 2 had their sons captured during the war
• 9 fought and died in the war