Chapter 5: The Road to Independence

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Chapter 5 The Road to Independence

• Mr. Stump
• Social Studies 8th Grade

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Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
(Pages 132-135)

• 1. They planned to station soldiers in America
  and passed the Proclamation of 1763.
• 2. They feared that the troops could be used to
  interfere with their liberties and freedoms.
• 3. Smuggling costing Britain money Writs of
  assistance allowed officers to search locations
  for smuggled goods.

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Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
(Pages 132-135)

• 4. To stop the smuggling of molasses imported by
  the colonists.
• 5. Vice-admiralty courts did not have juries
  this violated the colonists rights innocent
  until proven guilty.
• 6. Almost all printed materials in the colonies.

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Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
(Pages 132-135)

• 7. Parliament had interfered in colonial
  affairs, and the act taxed colonists without
  their consent.
• 8. He persuaded the Virginia assembly to pass a
  resolution declaring that Virginia had the
  exclusive right to tax its citizens.
• 9. He helped start the Sons of Liberty, which
  led angry protests.

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Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
(Pages 132-135)

• 10. Drafted a petition to Great Britain
  declaring that states could only be taxed by
  their own assemblies.
• 11. They signed nonimportation agreements.
• 12. They did not trust him or Parliament.
• 13. To tax and make decisions for the colonies
  in all cases.

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Section 1 Taxation Without Representation
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• 14. Glass, tea, paper, and lead.
• 15. They organized the Daughters of Liberty and
  urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and
  produce colonial goods.

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Chapter 5 The Road to Independence

• Mr. Stump
• Social Studies 8th Grade

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Section 2

• I.
• A. The soldiers acted rudely and sometimes
  violently toward the colonists. Some of them
  stole goods and got into fights.
• B.
• 1. March 5, 1770
• 2. They threw stones, snowballs, and oyster
  shells at the soldiers and screamed at them.
• 3. He was a part African, part Native American
  dockworker and one of the five Bostonians killed
  in the Boston Massacre.

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Section 2

• C.
• 1. Paul Revere did an engraving of the massacre
  that showed the British soldiers firing upon an
  orderly, innocent crowd. Samuel Adams put up
  posters of the engraving, which strengthened
  anti-British feeling.
• 2. Many colonists called for stronger boycotts
  on British goods. The growing opposition led
  Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.

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Section 2

• 3. It helped bring together people from other
  colonies to oppose British measures.
• 4. The tax on tea.
• II.
• A. It gave the East India Co. the right to ship
  tea to the colonies without paying most of the
  usual taxes. It also allowed the company to
  bypass the colonial merchants.

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Section 2

• B. The ships were forced to turn around and go
  back to Great Britain.
• C.
• 1. December 16, 1773
• 2. A group of men disguised as Mohawks boarded
  British ships and threw 342 chests of tea
  overboard.

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Section 2

• D.
• 1. To punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party and
  its other resistance to British laws.
• 2. Boston Harbor
• 3. Most town meetings
• 4. The Intolerable Acts

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Chapter 5 The Road to Independence

• Mr. Stump
• Social Studies 8th Grade

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Section 3

• 1. Georgia
• 2. American
• 3. militias
• 4. minutemen
• 5. Lt. Col. Francis Smith
• 6. Concord
• 7. April 18, 1775

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Section 3

• 8. Paul Revere
• 9. John Hancock
• 10. 70 minutemen
• 11. Boston
• 12. Green Mountain Boys
• 13. Ethan Allen
• 14. correspondence
• 15. Breeds Hill

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Section 3

• 16. gunpowder
• 17. Loyalists
• 18. Patriots

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Chapter 5 The Road to Independence

• Mr. Stump
• Social Studies 8th Grade

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Section 4

• 1. May 10, 1775
• 2. John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry,
  George Washington
• 3. It authorized the printing of money, set up a
  post office, and created the Continental Army.

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Section 4

• 4. George Washington
• 5. A formal request to King George III to ask
  the king to protect the colonists rights
• 6. They defeated the redcoats in Boston.
• 7. They decided to strike first and attacked
  Montreal and Quebec.

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Section 4

• 8. Benedict Arnold
• 9. He published Common Sense, a pamphlet calling
  for complete independence from Great Britain.
• 10. Whether the colonies should seek complete
  independence from Great Britain

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Section 4

• 11. Thomas Jefferson
• 12. July 2, 1776
• 13. four
• 14. By announcing Americas new status as an
  independent nation.