ACTIONS &
REACTIONS
SWBAT: DESCRI BE THE BRITISH POLI CI ES
THAT LED TO COLONIAL UNREST
DO NOW
•With your group, explain one
short-term and one long-term
effect of the French and Indian
War
*THINK: Political, Cultural, Economic
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
• After Pontiac’s War, King George III:
- Prohibited colonial settlement west
of the Appalachian Mountains
- Land reserved for Indians
- Only colonial governments could
sell Indian land to private
individuals
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
• Goal: to stabilize
colonial frontier to
avoid being dragged
into endless boarder
conflicts
• Who would be most
upset by the
proclamation? Why?
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
Effects:
• Settlers and speculators were
enraged, infuriated
 they ignored the policy
• George Washington himself sent
agents to secretly purchase as
much land as possible
• Relationship between Indians &
settlers worsened
PROCLAMATION OF 1763
• First in a series of acts by the British
government that angered colonists
• In your group, determine the
POV of the British v. POV of the colonists
at this point in time…
WHAT COMES NEXT…
• You will use the textbook, additional info packets,
and your smartphone to determine information to
complete your assigned “Action-Reaction”
events.
• Complete the graphic organizer by explaining
how each event caused a reaction… and how
each reaction caused another action… and so
forth.
• Each group member is responsible for finding their
assigned action-reaction.
• You will then share-out your findings with your
group members.
WRAP UP
• Complete “Historical Thinking Skill:
Causation- The War for
Independence”
• Which “act” do you think was
most influential in the start of the
American Revolution/War for
Independence? Why?
FOUNDATIONS FOR
REVOLUTION
S WB A T: E X P L A IN TH E D IF F E R E N C E S B E TWE E N
P A TR IO TS A N D L O Y A L IS TS
DO NOW
• What united
colonists against
the British?
- British taxes
WITHOUT colonial
representation or
consent; “virtual
representation”
COLONIAL JUSTIFICATION
• Rights of British subjects
• Rights of the individual
• Tradition of self-rule in the colonies
• Enlightenment ideas
- John Locke
“…the supreme power cannot take from any
man any part of his property without his own
consent…“
- Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, 1689
SONS OF LIBERTY
• Formed:1765,
response to Stamp
Act
• Boston, MASS
• “No taxation without
representation”
• Tar and Feathered
The Bostonian Paying the Excise-Man, 1774
PATRIOTS VS LOYALISTS
PATRIOTS
LOYALISTS
• Lawyers, Merchants,
Farmers: Paul Revere,
John Hancock, John
Adams, Thomas
Paine, Ben Franklin,
Alexander Hamilton,
Thomas Jefferson
• 40-50% of population
• Against British control
• Royal officials,
clergymen, wealthy
merchants
• 20-30% of population
• Rejected revolution
• Favored remaining a
part of British empire
• AKA “Tories”
PATRIOTS VS LOYALISTS
PATRIOTS
LOYALISTS
• Men AND women
gave financial &
material support
• Familiarity with the
land
• Military leadership of
George Washington
• Deep commitment
• Foreign aid – most
notably the French
• Bigger military, more $
• Promised to limit
colonial settlement in
the West  support
from American Indians
WRAP UP
• SA Practice!
• After 1763, Britain began to consolidate its
control of the British colonies.
A)Briefly explain a reason for this consolidation
B)Briefly explain one British action taken
between 1763 and 1776
C)Briefly explain one reaction by the colonists
to the action described in part b)