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Revolutionary War: :Revolutionary War: Events that led to armed conflict
Proclamation of 1763: :Proclamation of 1763: End of the French and Indian War
Land West of the Appalachians would belong to _______________.
What did this mean to the colonists? Why would they be upset by this decision?
What do you think some of the colonists did as a result?
The king sent ______________ British troops to enforce the Proclamation!
1765 :1765 Quartering Act:
Housing British Soldiers
Stamp Act:
All paper goods: legal papers, playing cards, newspapers, diplomas, advertisements
Had to be paid on silver: scarce in the colonies
Sons of Liberty:
Secret societies made up of mostly lawyers, merchants and artisans
Stages protests against the Stamp Act: burning paper, tar and feathering tax collectors
1766
Parliament REPEALS the Stamp Act.
1767 :1767 Townshend Act:
Suspended NY assembly
Enforced the Quartering Act
Taxed lead, paper, paint, glass and tea
Allowed British officers to use WRITS OF ASSISTANCE (search warrants) to collect taxes
1770 :1770 Boston Massacre:
British troops sent to the colonies to keep order fired shots into the crowd outside the Boston Customs House
5 colonists killed
1773 :1773 Tea Act:
Repealed the Townshend Act (except the Tea Tax)
Hurt colonial businesses
Caused the BOSTON TEA PARTY
Sons of Liberty planned protest against the British Tax on Tea
Dumped 342 chest of Tea into Boston Harbor
1774 :1774 Intolerable Acts: Punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party
Closed port of Boston until all tea was paid for
Restricted meetings of government in Mass.
Towns were forbidden to appoint Committees of Correspondence
Allowed British troops to stay in colonial houses
British officials accused of a crime to be tried in Britain not the colonies
1774 Colonial Response :1774 Colonial Response First Continental Congress
Ban on all trade with Britain until Intolerable Acts repealed
Called don each colony to begin training soldiers
Did not want to be independent, just treated fairly
Passed 10 resolution listing the rights of the colonists
Colonists Plan to Fight :Colonists Plan to Fight “I know not what course other may take, but as for me…give me liberty of give me death” ~Patrick Henry
Loyalists and Patriots choose sides
Militias plan to fight (minutemen)
Storage of ammunition
1775 :1775 General Gage hears of plans to hide ammunition at Concord
April 18th – Gage orders his troops to destroy supplies
Revere, Dawes and Prescott ride to warn the Colonists
April 19th, 1775 WAR BEGINS!