French and
Indian War
Proclamation
of 1763
The Taxes
Sons and Daughters
of Liberty
Committees of
Correspondence
The Townshend
Acts
Second
Continental
Congress
Battle of
Bunker HIll
Lexington and
Concord
First Continental
Congress
The Coercive
Acts
The Boston
Tea Party
The Boston
Massacre
Why?
Where?, Who?, When?, What?
The Treaty of Paris
The French and
the British both
wanted control of
the Ohio River
Valley for trade
and growth. The
Native Americans
wanted to live in
their own land.
King G. wanted to
stop the fighting
with Native
Americans. It was
costing G.B. too
much money.
This war was between France and
Britain over land in the Ohio River
Valley from 1754-1763. Native
Americans were allies with both
countries. Fighting spread to
Europe where Spanish joined the
French. The British sent more
troops and supplies to the colonies
and finally defeated the French.
British King George III made a
public announcement that said
all lands west of the
Appalachian Mts. belonged to
the Native Americans.
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Britain gained most of
Canada, all French lands
east of the Mississippi
River, and Spanish
Florida.
France lost nearly all of
its lands in N.A.
Native Americans fought
colonists who now
wanted to settle the new
land they had won.
Colonists ignored
the proclamation.
C. thought the land
was theirs and
continued to settle
the O.R.V.
Where?, Who?, When?, What?
The taxes hurt the
shipping business in
N.E. Colonies.
British needed
money to pay
for the FI War.
was a tax passed in 1764 by
Parliament on sugar and
molasses.
was a tax passed by P. on paper
items (newspapers, legal documents,
playing cards.
Colonists became
angry.
"Taxation without
representation!"
"No one was speaking
or acting for them".
and
The colonists
didn't like the
taxes.
They tried to
force Britain to
take back the
Stamp Act.
They were groups of men and women
who worked against the taxes.
S. of L. - covered tax collectors with tar
and dumped feathers on them. They
chased them out of town.
D. of L. - spun thread and wove their
own cloth instead of buying British cloth
to support the boycott of British goods.
British P. voted
to repeal (take
back) the Stamp
Act.
The repeal
showed that the
colonists could
work together.
Tarred and Feathered video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-d6eNRownI
Colonists
needed a better
way to
communicate
with one
another.
Britain still needs
money to pay for
soldiers and war
debt.
B. wants to prove
that they still had
the right to make
laws for the
colonies.
They were committees of colonists
who wrote letters to one another
telling about what was happening in
their town and colony.
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People in all the
colonies now had a
way to ask people to
protest (work against)
British polices.
Boston (Sam Adams) 1764
Virginia - 1773
Every colony
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Colonists boycotted goods
> stop drinking tea
> merchants refused to
import taxed goods
> C. didn't paint houses
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sales of B. goods went down
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Parliament repealed the taxes
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More colonists joined protests
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B. sent more soldiers
Parliament passed new taxes
on imported goods such as
glass, tea, paint, and paper.
Colonists were
angry about
British soldiers
being in their
town.
Colonists were upset
about the Tea Act,
which meant colonists
had to buy their tea
from the East India
Company.
In Boston on March 5, 1770, a fight
broke out when angry colonists
shouted at soldiers and three rocks
and snowballs at them. C. knocked
down some soldiers and the soldiers
fired, killing 5 colonists including
African American sailor named
Crispus Attucks.
Where: Boston Harbor
When: Dec. 16, 1773
Who: 150 members of Sons of
Liberty
What: dressed as members of
Mohawk tribe, boarded three British
ships and threw 300 chests of tea
into the ocean
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre/videos/bostonmassacre
Paul Revere made a picture
of the shooting and called it
"The Bloody Massacre".
It made colonists even more
angry because it portrayed
the Soldiers as shooting
many innocent people.
British leaders
were angry and
punished the
colonists by
passing the
Coercive Acts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcDoN-KEiKQ
http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-tea-party/videos
Who: Parliament When: March, 1774
The Boston Tea
Party made
Parliament upset.
They wanted to
punish the
colonist.
1. blockaded the harbor to close the
port of Boston
2. stopped the Mass. legislature from
meeting.
3. all town meetings had to be
approved by British General Gage.
Colonists formed
the First
Continental
Congress to
decide what to do
next.
4. forced colonists to quarter British
soldiers.
Colonists were
upset about the
Coercive Acts and
afraid that Britain
might take
stronger actions
against them.
In September 1774, Colonial
leaders met in Philadelphia and
decided to:
1. send a petition to the king
reminding him of their rights.
2. set a deadline for Parliament to
answer their petition.
3. stop trade with Britain
4. asked the colonists to for militas
General Gage sent
700 British soldiers to
Concord to seize the
weapons in Concord.
This led to the Battles
of Lexington and
Concord.