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Title: ROAD TO REVOLUTION


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ROAD TO REVOLUTION
Causes of the American Revolutionary War
By Lisa Campisi
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LESSON OBJECTIVES
  • To identify the main causes of the American
    Revolutionary War
  • To understand the economic relationship between
    the colonists and Britain
  • To comprehend the cause effect relationship of
    Britains tax policies concerning the colonies

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LESSON OVERVIEW
  • VOCABULARY REVIEW
  • COLONIAL MAP
  • CAUSES 4 MAJOR CATEGORIES
  • Aftermath of French Indian War
  • Issue of land settlement
  • Laws
  • Taxation Trade

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REVOLUTIONARY VOCABULARY
  • Boycott refusing to buy or use products as a
    form of protest
  • Customs Officials those in charge of inspecting
    goods entering a country
  • Export - to sell products to other countries
  • Import to buy products from other countries
  • Monopoly complete control of the sale of a
    product
  • Proclamation an official declaration
  • Quartering forcing families to house and feed
    soldiers
  • Repeal to take back
  • Representation having a voice in what is to be
    done
  • Taxes money paid to government

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Aftermath of French Indian War 1754-1763
  • French Indian War, an extension of the Seven
    Years War, was fought between France and Great
    Britain on the American continent from 1754-1763
  • Colonists fought on the side of the British
    they wanted to settle the Ohio River Valley saw
    the French as an impediment
  • Britain colonists won the war colonists had
    sense of pride with victory no longer needed
    British protection from the French
  • Colonists felt they would now be free to settle
    the Ohio River Valley

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Aftermath of French Indian War Issue of Land
Settlement
  • Colonists were angered Britain issued the
    Proclamation of 1763
  • Forbade colonial settlement west of Appalachian
    Mts.
  • King George of Britain gave these lands to Native
    Americans
  • Colonial settlers who already lived west of
    Appalachians were forced to move back east.

APPALACHIAN MTNS
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Colonial America - 1754
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LAWS
  • Laws were made in England by British Parliament
    for colonists
  • Colonists were not allowed to represent their
    ideas or views
  • Colonists wanted to make their own laws

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TAXES TRADE
  • French Indian War left Britain with enormous
    war debt
  • British believed debt incurred while defending
    colonies against the French
  • Britain wanted colonists to pay for war debt by
    imposing taxes

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Sugar Act
  • 1764
  • Britain taxed sugar, coffee wine to raise
    revenue
  • British custom officials sent to America to force
    colonists to pay taxes
  • Sons of Liberty, a secret group of colonists
    opposed to British taxes, organized boycott sugar
  • Colonists argued they shouldnt have to pay
    because they had no say in Parliament to voice
    their view
  • No taxation without representation became a
    battle cry for the revolt against British taxes

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Stamp Act
  • 1765
  • British were furious over the sugar boycott, so
    Parliament passed the Stamp Act
  • Stamps had to be bought by colonists and placed
    on newspapers, books, playing cards licenses
  • Sons of Liberty once again organized a boycott of
    taxed materials and the Stamp Act was repealed

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Quartering Act
  • 1765
  • British Parliament forced colonists to house and
    feed British soldiers stationed in their
    communities

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The Declaratory Act
  • British were determined to raise taxes assert
    authority over the colonists
  • Declaratory Act was passed by King Georgess
    government in 1767
  • Stated that Great Britain had the right to make
    laws for colonists without question

Britains King George III Family
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Townshend Acts
  • 1767 / followed passing of Declaratory Act
  • Taxed paper, paint, lead, glass, but most of all
    tea which was the drink of choice for British
    Americans
  • Colonists immediately began to boycott these
    goods
  • British merchants complained because they lost
    business
  • British warships arrived in Boston Harbor
    carrying troops to support British tax collectors

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Boston Massacre
  • Boston was the center for resistance to British
    taxes authority
  • Boston was home to many of the Sons of Liberty
  • 1770, British custom officials in Boston were
    harassed by members of the Sons of Liberty
    other local citizens
  • British reinforcements arrived a full skirmish
    broke out
  • British soldiers fired on the mob 5 American
    rioters were killed
  • This event called Boston Massacre great
    public anger toward the British

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Boston Tea Party
  • May 1773, British government granted a monopoly
    over the sale of tea to Britains East India
    Company
  • This put all American tea sellers out of business
  • King George III had ordered British tea shipments
    in Boston harbor to be unloaded by British
    soldiers
  • December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty some
    local citizens dressed up as Mohawk Indians,
    boarded the British ship dumped all 342 cases
    of tea into Boston Harbor

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Intolerable Acts
  • British authorities were furious over the Boston
    Tea Party passed a series of laws to punish
    city of Boston
  • Colonists came to name the laws Intolerable
    Acts
  • Banned town meetings in Boston
  • Closed port of Boston until tea was paid for /
    threatened city with starvation because much of
    food supply came by ship
  • Stationed more troops in Boston, forcing citizens
    to house feed them

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First Continental Congress
  • People throughout the colonies supported Boston
    by sending food supplies
  • 1774 representatives from 12 colonies met in
    Philadelphia to protest the Intolerable Acts
  • This First Continental Congress passed a
    declaration of colonists rights
  • Pledged to boycott British goods
  • Avoided selling their products to Britain
  • Colonists wrote letter of grievance to the
    British king he refused to read it

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Preparing for War
  • People throughout the colonies began to
    accumulate guns ammunition
  • Militias groups of citizen soldiers were
    organized ready to fight in an emergency
    called minutemen because they were ready to fight
    in a minutes notice
  • The country was ready for war

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Summation
  • Proclamation of 1763
  • Sugar Act 1764
  • Stamp Act 1765
  • Quartering Act 1765
  • Declaratory Act 1767
  • Townshend Acts 1767
  • Boston Massacre
  • Boston Tea Party
  • Intolerable Acts
  • First Continental Congress

Specific Events
General Themes
  • Aftermath of French Indian War
  • Land Settlement
  • Laws / Representation
  • Taxes Trade

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