problems in colonies currency shortage british crown holds nullification rights england believes...
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Road to Revolution
Problems in ColoniesCurrency
shortageBritish crown
holds nullification rights
England believes colonists’ should support the debt ($140 million)
George Grenville Ordered to enforce
Navigation ActsPassed Sugar Act, Stamp
Act and Quartering Act“No taxation without
representation”England claims “virtual
representation”Colonists create Stamp
Act Congress, boycotts by Sons and Daughters of Liberty
Stamp Act repealed and replaced with Declaratory Act
Charles TownshendIndirectly taxed everyday
goods like paper, glass and paint.
New York legislature was suspended
Boston Massacre occurredTownshend Acts are total
failure (raise almost 300 pounds in a year)
Colonists created “committees of correspondence”
Lord North and the Tea ActTea Act passed
giving monopoly to British East India Company
Boston Tea PartyEngland responds
with Intolerable Acts
Quebec Act is also passed, deeply hated by colonists
First Continental Congress summoned and eventually created a Declaration of Rights
The Association was created and called for complete boycott of British goods
Shots fired and Lexington
Chose George Washington
Compare and contrast the advantages of the colonists and England
Battle at Bunker Hill
Thomas Paine and Common Sense
But where says some is the King of America? I'll tell you Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain...let it be brought forth placed on the divine law, the word of God; let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America THE LAW IS KING.
2nd Continental CongressOlive Branch Petition
Declaration of Independence written by Thomas Jefferson
Declaration of IndependenceIN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of AmericaWhen in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to
which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the
causes which impel them to the separation.We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that
they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to
secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form
of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
Lord Dunmore’s Ethiopian Regiment
Washington Crosses The Delaware
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Yorktown
Effects of the RevolutionTreaty of Paris of 1783