Road to the Revolution, Road to the Revolution,

1763-17761763-1776

French & Indian War

French and Indian WarThree Empires: British, French,

Iroquois– What advantages did each have?

GW’s Defeat at Ft. Necessity, 1754Braddock’s Defeat, 1755Battle for Quebec (Plains of Abraham),

1759Peace of Paris, 1763

Braddock’s Defeat

Soldiers

French and Indian WarGW’s Defeat at Ft. Necessity, 1754Braddock’s Defeat, 1755Battle for Quebec (Plains of Abraham),

1759Peace of Paris, 1763Why did the British win?Who really won and who really lost?

After French & Indian War

Pontiac’s Rebellion,

1763

Proclamation of 1763

Early Mercantilist Issues

Navigation Acts– Indirect, external taxes

Molasses Act, 1733 Sugar Act, 1764

– Internal tax– Writs of Assistance

The Stamp Act, 1765 Internal, direct tax Virginia Resolves Sons of Liberty Stamp Act Congress Repealed in 1766 Declaratory Act, 1766

Townshend Duties, 1767 Internal, but indirect

tax Provides salaries for

colonial officials Fails due to smuggling

and boycotts North repeals all

except tea in 1770 Committees of

Correspondence form in the early 1770s

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Boston Massacre, 1770

Paul Revere

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Boston Tea Party, 1773 Led by Sons of Liberty Response to the new Tea Act

– intended to save the British East India Tea Company and the British colony of India

– Allowed BEITCo to bypass a duty in England and actually lowered the price of tea

– opposed because it still kept some tea tax– Sons of Liberty destroy tea so that it could not

be unloaded and people couldn’t pay the remaining tax

Coercive Acts, 1774

Response to Boston Tea Party AKA Intolerable Acts Boston Port Act Mass. Government Act Administration of Justice Act New Quartering Act

Quebec Act

First Continental Congress, 1774

Lexington & Concord, 1774

English troops sent to seize arms and supplies.

Revere is arrested for trying to warn minutemen.

British repulsed at Concord.British suffer 273 casualties from

“snipers” on they way back to Boston.How does this change the conflict?

Bunker Hill, 1775 British take over 1,000 casualties in pushing the

Continental Army off of Bunker Hill (really Breed’s Hill).

British eventually abandon Boston to Washington’s Continental Army and retreat to Halifax.

2nd Continental Congresses,1775

Declaration of Independence “When in the course of

human events, it becomes necessary to …dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another… a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes…”

“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes…”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable 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 government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government…”