The Heritage of War

• Rumblings of American Nationalism• Retaliation of the British toward the Colonials– Imperial forces won the war while colonists

traded with the enemy– Efforts to use writs of assistance to stop illegal

trade

• Problems of Managing Defense in the North and East

The Government of George III

• Whiggish Nature of the Government• Privy Council Supplanted by an Inner Cabinet• Political Intrigue among Ministers

Western Lands

• Problems with the Newly Acquired Lands• The Ohio River Valley and Indian Uprisings• The Proclamation of 1763• Indians Treaties of 1768

Paying the Debt for the War

• George Grenville and His Plans– Sugar Act of 1764– Currency Act of 1764– Stamp Act of 1765– Quartering Act of 1765

Protests in the Colonies

• The Impact of the New Taxes on the Colonists • Colonial Reaction• Stamp Act Congress • Fall of the Grenville Ministry• Results

Townshend Duties

• The Rise of Charles Townshend• Townshend Acts– New programs– Colonial reaction to the new acts • Sons of Liberty• Circular Letter• Boston Massacre

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The Bloody Massacre

Discontent on the Frontier

• Creation of Vermont• The Paxton Boys • South Carolina Regulators • North Carolina and Eastern “Abuses”

A Worsening Crisis

• The Burning of the Gaspee• Creation of Committees of Correspondence• Lord North and His Tea Act of 1773• The Boston Tea Party

The British Response to the Tea Party

• The Coercive Acts– Government officials to be tried in Britain– New Quartering Act

• The Continental Congress– Endorsed the Suffolk Resolves

Shifting Authority

• Lexington and Concord• Paul Revere• The Spreading Conflict• George Washington• Battle of Bunker Hill

Shifting Authority

• Common Sense

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Independence

• Richard Henry Lee of Virginia• Jefferson’s Declaration