Riot to Rebellion 1770-1776

The colonies in 1763

Hostilities in the coloniesThe problem with the Redcoats

Working classes and competitionThe role of alcohol

The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)British Captain Thomas Prescott“Liberty boys”

Paul RevereSamuel AdamsJohn Adams

Crispus AttucksThe Trial of the Century…

Internal disputesThe Regulators

Take Five

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 revolutionCommittees 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 IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence

The CommitteeThomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman,

John Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin

The issue of slaverySigning the declaration of independence

John HancockIncreasing 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 died12 had their homes ransacked and burned2 lost their sons during the war2 had their sons captured during the war9 fought and died in the war