Events Leading to Revolution
(1763-1775)
Event Yr. /Facts Right violation
1763
1764
1765
1766
1768
1770
1772
1773
1774
1774
1775
Colonists
Reaction
Events for you to place in order
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Proclamation Line
Townshend Tax
Sugar Act
Stamp Act
Other words we
Vice-Admiralty Cts.
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non-importation
First Continental Congress
agreements
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Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act Congress
Boston Tea Party
Gaspee Affair
Associations - boycotts
Committees of Correspondenc
writs of assistance
internal tax / direct tax
external tax/ indirect tax
Did the Colonists Object more to taxes or violations of
civil liberties (cause of the forthcoming conflict?)
Sugar Act
-Lowered tax – 3 pennies to 1 penny, but
taxed British sugar as well and was enforced
– smugglers tried in Vice-Admiralty Courts
-Civil liberty violations (right denied)–
-Internal tax (Dulaney’s argument)
-No trial by jury – Vice Admiralty Courts
Stamp Act - 1765
- Tax on paper products: dice,wills
- Civil Liberty violations:
- No taxation without representation
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Colonial Reactions –
Stamp Act Congress
Non-importation agreements
Violence – tarring and feathering
(British response – repeal it, pass Declaratory Act)
Townshend Act 1767
• Light, indirect (paid at port) tax on
lead, paper, tea
- Civil Liberty violations – “No taxation without
representation
- Colonial reactions –
- Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements
- (British response – will repeal all but tea tax)
Quartering Act - 1767
• Colonies need to house / feed (quarter
British Troops)
• Civil liberty violation – right to privacy
• British – will disband NY legislature for
failure to implement
Boston Massacre
(1770)
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Colonists incite British to fire on civilians
British kill 8
Sons of Liberty fan flames
Trial – John Adams defends British
soldiers
(things settle down for 2 years)
Gaspee Affair (1772)
• Providence townspeople burn British
schooner – Gaspee
• Bri. Royal Governor Hutchinson –
establishes a special commission to
investigate
• No one found guilty
(Hutchinson’s house had been burned in
1767 by a mob)
Boston Tea Party (1773)
• Colonists dump tea into harbor
• British impose Intolerable Acts
• Colonists band together – TJ offers a day
of fasting, goods are given to Boston,
committees of corr., non-importation,
• First Continental Congress called
Intolerable (Coercive) Acts - 1774
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Closed Boston Port
Disbanded the Mass. Legislature
Banned town meetings
Martial Law in Boston (curfew, etc)
Quebec Act -
First Continental Congress
• Cause – Intolerable Acts
• Elements – Petition for Redress/
»Associations formed/
»Suffolk Resolves
»Significance – shows a growing
unity amongst the colonies
Second Continental Congress
• Cause – Lexington and Concord attacks
• Elements
• - Olive Branch Petition
• - Declaration of Causes and Necessity For
Taking Up Arms
• - Declaration of Independence
• Significance – took more than a year to get the
divided colonies to respond with unity to Bri.
Transgressions.
Potential Essay Question
• What was the most significant reason for
the American Revolution? Analyze any
three of the following in your response.
• British Taxation policy
• British military measures
• Legacy of Colonial political and economic
practices
• Violations of civil liberties
Declaration of Independence
American Spirit – p. 153
Who was it written to?
Why do you think it was written?
List the three natural rights.
Quote the “Social Contract” within it.
State your favorite 2 grievances
State any two propaganda devices used
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Power Notes – sections of Chap. 6
France Finds a Foothold
New France Fans Out
Washington Inaugurates War
Pitt’s Palms of Victory
Restless Colonists
War’s Aftermath