Tar and Feathering

The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)The Boston Massacre (March 5,1770)

The Gaspee Incident (1772)The Gaspee Incident (1772)

Providence, RI coastProvidence, RI coast

Committees Committees of Correspondenceof Correspondence

PurposePurpose warn neighboring warn neighboring coloniescolonies about incidents with about incidents with

British British

broaden the resistance broaden the resistance movement. movement.

Tea Act Tea Act (1773)(1773)British East India Co.:British East India Co.:

Monopoly on British teaMonopoly on British teaimports.imports.

Many members of Many members of Parliament held shares.Parliament held shares.

Permitted the Co. to Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to sell tea directly to colonists without colonial colonists without colonial middlemen middlemen (cheaper tea!)(cheaper tea!)

North expected the colonistsNorth expected the coloniststo eagerly choose theto eagerly choose thecheaper tea.cheaper tea.

Boston Tea Party (1773)Boston Tea Party (1773)

The Coercive or IntolerableThe Coercive or IntolerableActs (1774)Acts (1774)

Lord NorthLord North

1.1. Port Bill Port Bill

2.2. Government Government ActAct

4.4. Administration Administration ofof Justice Act Justice Act

3.3. New Quartering New Quartering Act Act

The Quebec Act (1774)The Quebec Act (1774)

First Continental Congress First Continental Congress (1774)(1774)

55 delegates from 12 55 delegates from 12 coloniescolonies

AgendaAgenda How How to respond to to respond to the Coercive the Coercive Acts & the Acts & the Quebec Act?Quebec Act?

1 vote per colony 1 vote per colony represented.represented.

The British Are Coming . . .The British Are Coming . . .

Paul ReverePaul Revere & & William DawesWilliam Dawes make make their midnight ride to warn the their midnight ride to warn the

MinutemenMinutemen of approaching British of approaching British soldiers.soldiers.

The Shot Heard The Shot Heard ’’Round Round the Worldthe World!!

LexingtonLexington & & ConcordConcord – April – April 18,177518,1775

British Retreat

• April 23, 1775 - The Provincial Congress in Massachusetts orders 13,600 American soldiers to be mobilized. Colonial volunteers from all over New England assemble and head for Boston, then establish camps around the city and begin a year long siege of British-held Boston.

Fort Ticonderoga

Second Continental Congress

Battle of Bunker Hill

Washington Takes Command

The Second Continental The Second Continental Congress (1775)Congress (1775)

Olive Branch Olive Branch PetitionPetition

July 6, 1775 - The Continental Congress issues a Declaration on the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms detailing the colonists' reasons for fighting the British and states the Americans are "resolved to die free men rather than live as slaves."

• December 23, 1775 - King George III issues a royal proclamation closing the American colonies to all commerce and trade, to take effect in March of 1776. Also in December, Congress is informed that France may offer support in the war against Britain.

Thomas Paine: Thomas Paine: Common SenseCommon Sense

• April 6, 1776 - The Continental Congress declares colonial shipping ports open to all traffic except the British. The Congress had already authorized privateer raids on British ships and also advised disarming all Americans loyal to England.

• April 12, 1776 - The North Carolina assembly is the first to empower its delegates in the Continental Congress to vote for independence from Britain.

• May 2, 1776 - The American revolutionaries get the much needed foreign support they had been hoping for. King Louis XVI of France commits one million dollars in arms and munitions. Spain then also promises support.

• May 10, 1776 - The Continental Congress authorizes each of the 13 colonies to form local (provincial) governments.

Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence (1776)(1776)

Declaration of IndependenceDeclaration of Independence

Independence HallIndependence Hall