road to revolution

The Story of a The Story of a Road Some Took Road Some Took

to Revolutionto Revolution

United States HistoryUnited States History

““An Age of Revolution”An Age of Revolution”

What Do You What Do You SeeSee? ? What Do You What Do You KnowKnow??

What do predict will happen?What do predict will happen?

Stated that laws exist

which protect the rights of

British subjects which the king must observe

First colonial government written by

Pilgrims before settling the New World

A king could not tax British

subjects without

permission from the British

government, Parliament

Provided basic rights for all

British subjects: established

elections, right to bear arms, forbid cruel

unusual punishment, trial by jury

Care to make a prediction?

Rights of English Citizens

King’s Influence and Power

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Do You Know Anything About Do You Know Anything About Powder Kegs?Powder Kegs?

MercantilismMercantilismEngland has got it GOOD!!!England has got it GOOD!!!

Victory comes at a costVictory comes at a cost

How can we fix it?How can we fix it?

We need more money…perhaps

the colonies?

I have a few ideas.

Prime Minister Grenville

Navigation Acts, 1660’sNavigation Acts, 1660’s

We need to tighten our leash a bit

more.

Certain products can only be sold to

England or English colonies. (sugar,

tobacco, indigo, etc.)

Goods from other countries

had to go to Europe first.

Goods had to be transported on

English ships.

Proclamation of 1763Proclamation of 1763

We have to limit colonial expansion westward.

Back in the colonies…Back in the colonies…

Doesn’t bother me at all.

I know a way to smuggle goods

in.I like things just

the way they are.They did not care to enforce trade before. They’ll

back off.

We are still

moving west.

Ignore, smuggle and bend the rules.

Navigation Acts 1660’s

Proclamation of 1763

We still need more money.

England’s citizens pay taxes on sugar. The

colonists are English citizens. It seems only fair.


Can they really do that?

Do we have a say at all?

Things are tight enough! I don’t

need more taxes!

What if we get sugar from

someone else?

We can find ways around

this.

Currency Act, 1764Navigation Acts

1660’s

Proclamation of 1763 Sugar Act, 1764

Ignore, smuggle and bend the rules.

Verbal protest

More smuggling

Not working! Any other bright

ideas?

I have another way which could

bring in more money.

Stamp Act, 1765Stamp Act, 1765

This is an English royal stamp!


Can they really do that?

Who represents us

anyway?More taxes? Are you kidding me? They did spend a

lot of money protecting our

interest.

I wonder what other

colonies are

saying?

The Stamp Act CongressThe Stamp Act Congress

Taxation without representation?

“Why not our lands? Why not produce of our lands,

and everything we possess or make use of?...If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without having a

legal representative where they are laid, are we not

reduced from…free subjects to slaves?”

PATRICK HENRY

SAMUEL ADAMS

Boycotts begin!Boycotts begin!

Less than a civil response…Less than a civil response…

Boycotts! Threats!

Violence! Tar and feathering?

We could repeal the act? But our authority will be compromised.

Some threats and violence


1660’s


Declaratory Act, 1766

Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act, 1765

“Taxation without representation!”

Townshend Acts, 1767Townshend Acts, 1767

1. We have to enforce the Navigation Acts more.

2. We must have the authority to search any building any

time. (writs of

assistance)

3. We will put taxes on all

imported goods like lead, paper, glass

and tea.

4. We will use the money

earned to pay the salaries of our colonial

officials.

5. We will not let any meetings take place at the New York Assembly.

Samuel Adams steps it up…Samuel Adams steps it up…

Colonists felt their Colonists felt their rights were being rights were being taken awaytaken away

Boycotts stir up Boycotts stir up againagain

British tax British tax collectors and collectors and officials are still officials are still threatened.threatened.

Violence Erupts in BostonViolence Erupts in Boston

JOHN ADAMS

Events of the TrialEvents of the TrialGovernor Hutchinson orders troops to withdraw from the Boston City

Captain Preston faces trial alone. 22 testified. Many state Preston did not give order.(Jury-12: 2 Boston, 5 Tories)

Wemms, Hartigan, McCauley, White, Warren and Carroll stand trial together.

Kilroy and Montgomery did fire into crowd. Found guilty of manslaughter. Both claimed to be clergy and were spared death penalty. Branding by fire was punishment. (seared thumbs)

Montgomery later admitted to yelling “Damn you, Fire!” after being knocked to the ground.

(TORIES)

BEN FRANKLIN WILLIAM FRANKLIN

I am indeed of opinion, that the parliament has no right to make any law whatever, binding on the

colonies…I know your sentiments differ from mine on these subjects. You are a thorough government man,

which I do not wonder at, not do I aim at converting you. I only wish to act uprightly and steadily.”

I think that all laws until they are repealed ought to be obeyed and that is the duty of those who are entrusted with the executive part of government

to see that they are so.”

FATHER… …AND SON

I wonder if the king has heard

the news?

Enough is enough! We are losing control!

Repeal the acts!

As you wish! However we still

need to make money. Perhaps keep the tax on

tea?

Day #2 Stopping Point

Tea Anyone?Tea Anyone?(3 years after (3 years after

Boston Massacre)Boston Massacre)

Forty to fifty men gathered at Griffin’s Wharf.

Dressed as Indians and blackened in face with coal, they boarded the Dartmouth, Beaver and Eleanor.

No harm was to come to any of the ships or the persons aboard her.

342 chests of tea had been emptied.

TIME FOR A SONG?

Tea Anyone?Tea Anyone?Perhaps Boston should pay back

England for the tea they damaged?

BEN FRANKLIN

Day #2 Stopping Point



1660’s



Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act, 1765


Townshend Acts, 1767

More boycotts

Tea Act, 1773

Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacr

e

That was a great idea!

Whatever!!!

Intolerable Acts, 1774Intolerable Acts, 1774

1. Boston Harbor is hear

by closed!

2. Colonists will quarter our

British soldiers

3. We need to give more authority to our

colonial governors and weaken their

state legislatures.

4. All British officials accused of crimes will be

on trial in England or in

another colony

Hmm…We’ll probably need

more troops sent over to the colonies.

GOVERNOR

Searching homes, quartering troops, punishing cities?

The Intolerable Acts redesigned colonial governments thus limiting voice (and power) within the colonies.

The Colonies GatherThe Colonies Gather

Repeal the Intolerable Acts!!!

Our legislatures need to make

laws, not Parliament!

Halt all exports to England!!!

Continue to boycott!!!!

A Voice from VirginiaA Voice from VirginiaGentlemen may cry, peace, peace-but there is not peace. The

war is actually begun! The gale that sweeps from the

north will bring our ears the clash of resounding arms!

Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish?

What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of

chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others will take: but as for me, give me liberty,

or give me death!

Some threats and violence An army is

formed!


1660’s



Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act, 1765



More boycotts

Tea Act, 1773

Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacr

e

Intolerable Acts, 1774

1st Continental Congress

Committees of Correspondence Lexingto

n & Concord

““The British are coming!”The British are coming!”

THOMAS GAGE

JOHN HANCOCK

SAMUEL ADAMS

Shot Heard Round the World!Shot Heard Round the World!

It’s just It’s just Common SenseCommon SenseIn 1776, at the request of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, an English writer, came to America. He wrote a 47-page pamphlet which was later distributed in Philadelphia.

500,000 copies were sold in the colonies in a matter of months.

Through his words, colonists began to see Great Britain in a new light.

“There is something very absurd in supporting a continent to be perpetually

[forever] governed by an island.”

“I have heard it asserted by some, that as America hath flourished under her former

connection with Great-Britain, that the same connection is

necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have

the same effect…“

Paine’s words spoke out against the abuse of British

government. It would change the way colonists viewed

British authority, but it would call for something new…

independence.

Paine’s words spoke out against the abuse of British

government. It would change the way colonists viewed

British authority, but it would call for something new…

independence.

“Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that because

a child has thrived upon milk, that it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent

for the next twenty.”

So what happens next?So what happens next?


An army is formed!

Currency Act, 1764Navigation Acts 1660’s


Sugar Act, 1764


Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act, 1765



More boycotts

Boston Tea Party

Boston Massacr

e



Committees of Correspondence



Sugar Act, 1764








Stamp Act, 1765





Stamp Act, 1765





Stamp Act, 1765








1660’s


Tea Act, 1773

Sugar Act, 1764

Stamp Act, 1765

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest


Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

An army is formed!


Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest


An army is formed!


Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Boston Tea Party 1st Continental

Congress

An army is formed!


Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

More boycotts

Boston Tea Party 1st Continental

Congress

An army is formed!


Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott


Stamp Act Congress

More smuggling

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Committees of Corresponden

ce

More boycotts

Boston Tea

Party1st

Continental Congress

An army is formed!

Some threats and

violence

Sons & Daughters of

Liberty / boycott

“Taxation without

representation!”

Stamp Act

Congress

More smugglin

g

Ignore & smuggle

Verbal protest

Boston Massac

re

Questions for you and your Questions for you and your neighbor…neighbor…

Where did the British government make Where did the British government make its first mistake? (Push too hard?)its first mistake? (Push too hard?)

Did the colonies make any mistakes? Did the colonies make any mistakes? (Push too hard?)(Push too hard?)

At what point was there no turning At what point was there no turning back? (A break was going to happen…) back? (A break was going to happen…)

Was revolution inevitable? (Going to Was revolution inevitable? (Going to happen no matter what…)happen no matter what…)

What have we covered so far?What have we covered so far?

repealrepeal Proclamation of 1763Proclamation of 1763

Stamp ActStamp Act Sons & Daughters of Sons & Daughters of LibertyLiberty

Townshend ActsTownshend Acts boycottboycott

Intolerable ActsIntolerable Acts Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams

Boston MassacreBoston Massacre Boston Tea PartyBoston Tea Party

Lexington & ConcordLexington & Concord loyalists (Tories)loyalists (Tories)

George WashingtonGeorge Washington Patrick HenryPatrick Henry

Common SenseCommon Sense

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