The Events and People Behind the American

Revolution

Passed March 22, 1765Passed by British ParliamentTaxed colonists on all paper productsViewed as fundraising for EnglandRepealed in 1766

The Stamp Act

Dec. 16, 1773 at Griffin’s Warf

Men threw tea into Harbor

9.7 thousand pounds = 18.5 million cups of tea

Turned harbor brown for days

Only 1 man sent to prisonIn protest of “taxation

without representation”

Boston Tea Party

Kevin Dooley, Bronze Franklin Mint Boston Tea Party Bicentennial 1973, July 20, 2007 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

Passed in 1774Response to Boston Tea PartyConsisted of 5 laws:

Massachusetts Bay Regulating ActGovernor appoints law officersHas rights to ban town meetings

The Intolerable Acts

Impartial Administration of Justice ActTrials moved to England.

Boston Port ActDumped tea must be paid for.

Quartering ActRoyal troops can stay in houses

The Intolerable Acts Ct’d

Quebec ActCatholics in Quebec earned:

Religious freedomRight to civil government

The Intolerable Acts Ct’d

March 5, 17705 colonists shot and killedColonists throwing

snowballsSoldier was hit and became

angrySoldiers say colonists

surrounded them.

Boston Massacre

Marion Doss, Boston Massacre, June 18, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

Commander of British Forces French/Indian War-

Fort NecessityElected to first

Continental CongressCommander in Chief

during American Revolution

First President of USSupporter of

Constitution

George Washington

Joye~, George Washington, May 3, 2009 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

Gift for public speakingMember of the House of

BurgessSpoke out against the

Stamp ActMarch 1775- 1st

Revolutionary Convention1775- British must pay for

gunpowder“Give me Liberty or give

me death”

Patrick Henry

Marion Doss, Patrick Henry Denounces Unjust Taxation, October 8, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

1774- A Summary view of the rights of British America

Member of second Continental Congress

Head of Committee- wrote Declaration of Independence

Spokesman during revolution

President of US from 1801-1807

Thomas Jefferson

cliff1066™, Thomas Jefferson (The Edgehill Portrait), Third President (1801-1809), August 26, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

Against stamp act- knew it was unavoidable

Kept buying stamps from friend John Hughes.

Almost ruined reputation and killed Hughes

Benjamin Franklin

cliff1066™, Benjamin Franklin, August 26, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

Tried to bridge gap between colonies and England

1765 - 1775 wrote 126 articles explaining opposing views.

Though unpopular, elected to 2nd Continental Congress

Ben Franklin Ct’d

Published Common Sense in 1776.

Traveled with Army, failed as soldier

Produced The Crisis, inspiring the army. This pamphlet = more

popular than Superbowl.

Stopped working for revolution, went home to England

Thomas Paine

AnimatedAtlas, Thomas_Paine, July 6, 2011 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

Wrote essays about Boston political ideas

Encouraged goods boycott to protest Townshend Acts

Part of 1779 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention

Governor of Massachusetts from 1789-1793

Member of the Continental Congress from 1774-1781

Samuel Adams

Marion Doss, Samuel Adams- bust x, November 8, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

2nd President of U.S. 1st Vice PresidentKnown for skills as a

lawyerWrote many essays for

Boston newspapersWrote letters of protest to

great BritainDid little to help write the

Declaration of Independence.

John Adams

cliff1066™, John Adams, Second President (1797-1801), August 26, 2008 via Flickr, Creative Commons License

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