road to the revolution, 1763-1776. french & indian war
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Road to the Revolution, Road to the Revolution,
1763-17761763-1776
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French & Indian War
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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
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Braddock’s Defeat
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Soldiers
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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?
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After French & Indian War
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Pontiac’s Rebellion,
1763
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Proclamation of 1763
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Early Mercantilist Issues
Navigation Acts– Indirect, external taxes
Molasses Act, 1733 Sugar Act, 1764
– Internal tax– Writs of Assistance
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The Stamp Act, 1765 Internal, direct tax Virginia Resolves Sons of Liberty Stamp Act Congress Repealed in 1766 Declaratory Act, 1766
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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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British Imports to the Colonies
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Boston Massacre, 1770
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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
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Coercive Acts, 1774
Response to Boston Tea Party AKA Intolerable Acts Boston Port Act Mass. Government Act Administration of Justice Act New Quartering Act
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Quebec Act
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First Continental Congress, 1774
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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?
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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.
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2nd Continental Congresses,1775
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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…”
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“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…”