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The Causes of the American Revolution
A Long Train of ABUSES & USURPATIONS
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Analyze… the conflict between the colonial legislatures and the British Parliament over the right to tax that resulted in the American Revolutionary War.
USHC 1.2
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Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and... that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations… evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government…
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Salutary Neglect
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The French and Indian War 1754-63
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WarsCostMoney
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British National Debt
1754 1763 1764£0
£20,000,000
£40,000,000
£60,000,000
£80,000,000
£100,000,000
£120,000,000
£140,000,000
Following the French and Indian War
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Cost of Quartering
Troopsin the colonies
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Salutary NeglectNO MORE
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Proclamation Line of
1763
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Parliament Taxes the Colonies
1. Sugar Act (1764)2. Stamp Act (1765)3. Townshend Acts (1767)
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The Sugar ActIMPORT Tax
on Foreign Sugar
1764
ADMIRALTY COURTS
Jury Trials
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The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax
on legal documents
1765
MASS RESISTANCE
BoycottsMob Violence
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NO
TAXATION
WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
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Taxing Authority
HERE
HERE
NOTE: The colonists did not want to be represented in Parliament, where their representatives could have been outnumbered. They believed that only their representatives in their own colonial legislatures could legitimately tax them.
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Resistance Movement(s)
Sons of Liberty
IntimidationMass Protests
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Homespun Fabric
Daughters of Liberty
Reduced dependence
on British textiles
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The Stamp ActINTERNAL Tax
on legal documents
1765
MASS RESISTANCE
BoycottsMob ViolenceREPEALE
D
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Parliament’s Not Done
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Townshend ActsTax on Imports
1767
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These
Guys Agai
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More of
These
Guys
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Confrontation between
British Troops and a
Rowdy Mob
Boston Massacre1770
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NOT GUILT
Y
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Townshend ActsTax on Imports
1767
REPEALEDWith one
exception...
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Just because we don’t tax... doesn’t mean that
we can’t!
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The Chain
of Events• Tea Act• Boston Tea Party• Intolerable Acts• Lexington &
Concord
Leading to the Revolution
Photo Credit: Darwin Bell
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ParliamentGrants a
Monopolyto a BritishCompany
The Tea Act 1773
Photo Credit: John-Morgan
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Boston Tea Party
1773
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Intolerable Acts
1774
MARTIAL
LAW
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Intolerable Acts
1774
Boston Port Act
Massachusetts Government Act
Administration of Justice Act
Quartering Act
Quebec Act
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Photo Credit : Jeanette Runyon
The Minuteman
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The Minuteman
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OBJECTIVE:Seize the Arsenal
Lexington & Concord
1775
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THE SHOTheard ‘round the world
Image Courtesy of The National Guard
Artist: Don Troiani
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Lexington & Concord
1775
The British Retreat
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Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies...The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.