Slide 2 The Road to the American Revolution: 1763 -- 1776 (Unit
I, Segment 4 of 5) Slide 3 Essential Question Essential Question:
How did England s changing policy towards its colonies lead to
rising calls for independence? Warm-Up Question Warm-Up Question:
How did the French & Indian War change the way Britain ruled
the American colonies? Was this change in governing appropriate?
Explain from the point of view of Britain & colonists Slide 4
The Road to the American Revolution Slide 5 The Road to Revolution
(1763 - 1776) The end of the French & Indian War (1763), marked
the start of the road towards the American Revolution: 1763:
Beginning of parliamentary sovereignty & Proclamation Line
1765-67: Stamp & Townshend Acts 1773-75: Boston Tea Party,
Intolerable Acts, Lexington & Concord 1776: Declaration of
Independence Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 Mob reaction to the Stamp Act
For the 1 st time, many colonists refer to fellow boycotters as
patriots The Sons of Liberty & Daughters of Liberty were formed
to protest British restrictions & became the leaders of
colonial resistance The colonial boycotts were effective &
Britain repealed the Stamp Act Slide 9 Slide 10 More boycotts /
sometimes violent Slide 11 Colonists created committees of
correspondence to communicate with each other Slide 12 Slide 13
Paul Revere s etching of the Boston Massacre became an American
best-seller Colonists injured British soldiers by throwing
snowballs & oyster shells With only 5 dead, this was hardly a
massacre but it reveals the power of colonial propaganda Slide 14
Slide 15 Slide 16 First Continental Congress We have to help Boston
Slide 17 First Continental Congress The colonies are in a state of
Rebellion General Gage -- reassert royal control Slide 18 Slide 19
Lexington & Concord Slide 20 Stand your ground! Don t fire
unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war, let it begin
here! -- Colonial Captain Jonas Parker twas the Shot heard round
the world Slide 21 The Enlightenment Colonists used the ideas of
the Enlightenment to justify their protest John Locke wrote that
people have natural rights (life, liberty, & property) &
should oppose tyranny Rousseau believed that citizens have a social
contract with their gov t Montesquieu argued that power should not
be in the hands of a king, but separated among gov t branches Slide
22 Conclusions By December 1775, the British & American
colonists were fighting an informal revolutionary war but: Colonial
leaders had not yet declared independence In 1776, Thomas Paine s
Common Sense convinced many neutral colonists to support
independence from Britain By July 1776, colonists drafted the
Declaration of Independence Slide 23
