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THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1763-1775

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WAS THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INEVITABLE?

INTRO. OF NEW THOUGHTS

• republicanism: Greek and Roman philosophy where a group elects an official, rather than hereditarily handed down, for the collective good of the community

• Radical Whigs: emergence of political party in England who fear the independence of the colonies.

• Mercantilism: theory that the wealth in the nation’s treasury represents the nation’s military and political power.

• Thomas Paine: Common Sense

LEGISLATION

• The Stamp Act of 1764• The Sugar Act of 1764• The Quartering Act of 1765• Stamp Act of Congress-1765• The Declaratory Act-1766• Townshend Acts-1767• Tea Act-1773• Intolerable Acts-1774• Quebec Acts-1774

TEA ACT-1773

• British East India Co.:

Monopoly on Br. tea imports.

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.

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY-1773

THE COERCIVE OR INTOLERABLEACTS (1774)

1.Port Bill

2. Government Act

3.New Quartering Act

4.Administration of Justice Act

Lord North

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Tar and Feathering

SONS OF LIBERTY

PUBLIC PUNISHMENT FOR THE EXCISE MAN, 1774

O F F T H E C OA S T O F R H O D E I S L A N D

THE GASPEE AFFAIR-1772

THE COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE

• What?

• Where?

• Why?

Samuel Adams

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.

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE OF PAUL REVERE-1775

Paul Revere & William Dawes make their midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British

soldiers.

THE SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD

Lexington & Concord – April 18,1775

SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS-1775

Olive Branch Petition

WAS THE REVOLUTION INEVITABLE?