Take Five…
What is the difference between an
internal and external tax?
Years of Tumult
1763-1770
Salutary Neglect
Navigation acts, Prohibiting paper currency,
Regulating trade
Robert Walpole’s attitude
Confusion and corruption of government
Attitude of colonists
Little Parliaments
Little England
Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin
Take Five
The Wars Resume
Seven Years War ( French and Indian
war)
Conflict over the Ohio River Valley
Virginia fights back
Robert Dinwiddie
Fort Necessity
Impressments
Germ warfare
The “Cajuns”
The Glorious Victory
William Pitt
General Wolfe
Attacking Quebec
Peace of Paris
Gains of the Seven Years’ War
Conflicts of interest
“British Canada”
Sugar islands
British rule in Canada
French
Indians
General Sir Jeffrey Amherst
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Proclamation Line of 1763
Map of Ohio River Valley Region
The “Redcoats” in the Colonies
The Quartering Act
Establishing Parliamentary rule over the
colonies
William Pitt and the English national debt
George Grenville (1763)
Changing the Molasses Act
American Revenue Act (Sugar Act of 1764)
New England’s reaction
Whigs
Elected assemblies
Trial by jury
Boycotting imports
The Currency Act (1764)
Post war economic depression
“Middling class” outrage
Distribution of pamphlets
Reduction of the tax on molasses
The Stamp Act of 1765
Acts of noncompliance
Vice-admiralty Courts
John Dickinson
Sons of Liberty
Boycotts and violence
Virginia resolves
Patrick Henry
The Stamp Act Congress
James Otis
Declaration of Rights and
Grievances
Lese-majeste
The Stamp Tax
The British Constitution
Ideals of the Magna Carta
Conflicts over representation
Colonial viewpoint
British viewpoint
“Virtual representation”
King George III
King George III
“Kings friends”
Dismissal of Grenville
Lord Rockingham (July 1765-1766)
Repeal of the Stamp Act
Declaratory Act
Protest back at home…
Lord Chatham (William Pitt)
Charles Townshend (1766-1767)
Townshend Duties
Charles Townshend
Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) 1765
Disbanding the New York assembly (army
hq)
Taxes on imports (external taxes)
From Eng.: lead, paint, paper & tea
Boycotts—”American goods” becomes fashionable
Massachusetts Assembly
Circular letter
Lord North
Repeal of the Townshend Duties
Riot to Rebellion
1770-1776
The colonies in 1763
Hostilities in the colonies
The problem with the Redcoats
Working classes and competition
The role of alcohol
The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
British Captain Thomas Prescott
“Liberty boys”
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
John Adams
Crispus Attucks
The Trial of the Century…
Internal disputes
The Regulators
The Boston Massacre
Crispus Attucks
Paul Revere
Samuel Adams
John Adams
The March toward War
Leaders of the rebellion
James Otis
Writs of assistance
Patrick Henry
“Give me liberty or give me death”
Samuel Adams
Patrick Henry
The Tea Act of 1773
The Gaspee incident (1772)
East India Co.
Mercy Otis Warren
“The Daughters of Liberty”
Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16, 1773)
Thomas Hutchinson
The Intolerable Acts
Closing Boston ports
A new governor and new policy
A new government
Quartering Act of 1774
Quebec Act of 1774
Turning toward revolution
Committees of Correspondence
Continental Congress
Philadelphia
The delegates
The Suffolk Resolves
Loyalty to the King
Raising an army (the militia)
“Minutemen”
The Midnight Ride
Paul Revere
First Blows
Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere, William Dawes &
Samuel Prescott
Sniping
British retreat
Another intolerable act
Restriction of the Grand Banks
First Blows (con’t)
Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)
General Howe
British victory
Fort Ticonderoga
Green mountain boys
Ethan Allen
Benedict Arnold
General Sir William Howe
Battle of Fort Ticonderoga
Second Continental Congress
Finding a General
George Washington
“Declaration of the Cause & Necessity of
Taking Up Arms”
Common Sense
Thomas Paine
The Constitutional Convention
General George Washington
Voting for Independence
The Declaration of Independence
The Committee
Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman,
John Adams, Robert Livingston,
Benjamin Franklin
The issue of slavery
Signing the declaration of independence
John Hancock
Increasing risk
What kind of men were the
signers?
24 were lawyers and judges
11 were merchants
9 were farmers & large plantation owners
All were well educated
Who said Freedom was Free?
What happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of
Independence?
5 were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before
they died
12 had their homes ransacked and burned
2 lost their sons during the war
2 had their sons captured during the war
9 fought and died in the war