Road to the

RevolutionBy: Sarah Smith

EDU 290: Technology in Education9:30-10:45

Differences

British try to get money from the colonies

French and Indian War gives American colonists military experience and unity

Different concepts of representation.

Navigation Acts

All imperial trade has to be put on to British owned ships.

All enumerated goods have to be sold in England.

Different product taxes like Sugar and Molasses.

French and Indian War

French and Indians against the British.

Divided the colonies and Britain

Impressing people into the British navy.

Soldier Experience.

Proclamation Line of 1763.

Money.

Representation

No Taxation without representation.

Britain has virtual representation.

Want direct representation – vote for someone to vote in the government.

Acting Out

18th Century Crowd

Orderly protest against a law.

Stamp Act Crisis

Sam Adams (1772-1803)

Crowd became violent.

Sons of Liberty

John Adams starts it after the violent riots.

Spreads to major cities.

Has both lower and middle classes.

Use boycotts and petitions.

http://library24.library.cornell.edu:8280/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~9~1~77816~2004

After the Stamp Act

Only lasted a year.

Country was still in debt so the government calls for the Townshend Acts.

Tax on tea, glass, etc. (1767).

Colonists started petitions and boycotts.

Violence breaks out.

Boston Massacre

People were fighting for their jobs.

British soldiers were moonlighting.

Rope Factory hires them.

Crowd starts to form, throwing snowballs at the British soldiers.

British soldier accidently fires into the crowd.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/5476285367

Boston Tea Party

Tax on tea was still in affect.

Sons of Liberty join the lower class in a protest.

Went to the Boston Harbor and dumped tea.

Most people drank tea and so it affected everyone.

Source: Charlotte M. Yonge Young Folks' History of England (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1879)346

Intolerable Acts

Boston Port Act – Closed the port.

Massachusetts Government Act – all officials in the colonies were appointed by the king or governor.

Administration of Justice Act – Allowed the governor to move trials for the British officials.

Quartering Act – Housing of British troops.

Quebec Act – Changed the boundaries of Quebec.

Continental Congress

Colonists get together and organize a boycott.

Committees of observation.

Started a milita.

Second continental congress meets – George Washington leads it.

http://library24.library.cornell.edu:8280/luna/servlet/detail/CORNELL~9~1~77881~1501#

Common Sense

Strong argument for Independence from Britain.

Suggest to form a new type of government.

Should not be ruled by a king that is 3,000 miles away.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/Thomas_Paine_%28cropped%29.jpg

Unified or not?

Majority of Americans were not in favor of the Revolution

2/5 (40 percent) were patriots.

1/5 (20 percent) were loyalists.

2/5 (40 percent) were neutral.

Works Cited

All of my information was obtained from my HST 111: America to 1865 class.

The lecture is held in Pearce 128 at Central Michigan University. The lab section is in Powers 135 at Central Michigan University.

The class is held Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11 am.

Lab is held on Tuesdays at 2 pm.

My professor is Jennifer Green: green1jr@cmich.edu

My lab leader is Ingmar M. Pack: pack1im@cmich.edu