The Road to Revolution

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The Road to Revolution (1770-1776)
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Was the American Revolution Inevitable??
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Tar and Feathering
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The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)
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The Gaspee Incident (1772)
Providence, RI coast
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The Skinny

• Gaspee was a British customs ship
• Was boarded by rebels when chasing a smuggling
  boat
• Lt. was wounded and ship was set on fire
• British now paid governors salaries instead of
  colonies
• What power does that give them?

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Committees of Correspondence
Purpose ? warn neighboring colonies
about incidents with Br. ? broaden the
resistance movement.
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Tea Act (1773)

• British East India Co.
• Monopoly on Br. tea imports going broke
• Many members of Parl. held shares.
• Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols.
  without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!)
• North expected the cols. to eagerly choose the
  cheaper tea.

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Boston Tea Party (1773)
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One Crazy Night

• In response to the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts
• Sons of Liberty, disguised as Indians, dump
  90,000 tons of tea into the harbor
• British and many colonists unhappy
• Britain closes Boston Harbor

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The Coercive or IntolerableActs (1774)

• Port Bill

2. Government Act
3. New Quartering Act
Lord North
4. Administration of Justice Act
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TheQuebec Act (1774)
Took Indian lands (Ontario) Took parts of US
(IL, IN, MI, OH, WI) Free practice of
Catholicism
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First Continental Congress (1774)
55 delegates from 12 colonies
Agenda ? How to respond to the Coercive Acts
the Quebec Act?
1 vote per colony represented.
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The British Are Coming . . .
Paul Revere William Dawes make their midnight
ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British
soldiers.
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The Shot Heard Round the World!
Lexington Concord April 18,1775
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The Second Continental Congress(1775)
Olive Branch Petition
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Was the American Revolution Inevitable??
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Thomas Paine Common Sense
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Declaration of Independence (1776)
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Declaration of Independence
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Independence Hall
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New National Symbols