REVOLUTION

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Chapter 4

• REVOLUTION

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Rebellion begins to stir

• The Stamp Act
• George Grenville
• Legal Documents
• License
• Newspaper
• Playing cards

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The Stamp Act Rebellion

• Colonist refused to pay the tax
• Begins the seeds of self government
• King begins to lose control over colonists
• Mob Threats
• Attacks on Tax collectors

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The Townshend Acts

• Charles Townshend
• Indirect Tax
• Glass, Lead, Paint, and Paper
• Taxation Without Representation
• Boycott British Goods
• June of 1768 The Liberty was taken and all cargo
  seized - John Hancock

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Tensions begin to heat up
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The Boston Massacre

• March 5 1770
• Fight over jobs
• Mob gathered to taunt soldiers
• Crispus Attucks and four others dead
• Committees of Correspondence

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The Boston Tea Party

• Tea Tax
• Sons of Liberty
• Dumped tea into the harbor

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King George Passed the Intolerable Acts

• One closed the Boston Harbor
• Quartering Act
• Martial Law was enforced

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Response to the Intolerable Acts

• Committees of Correspondence assembled the first
  Continental Congress
• Declaration of colonial rights
• Agreed to reconvene if the request went unanswered

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Fighting Erupts

• The colonist can not stand anymore.
• They rebel at Lexington Concord.

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Paul Revere and the Midnight ride
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The shot heard around the world

• The battle of Lexington Concord sparked the
  meeting of the second continental congress

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Map of British March from Lexington to Concord
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John Adams

• Suggested a sweeping change, a radical plan
• Each colony set up its own government
• Establish a continental Army headed by a powerful
  General

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Establishment of the Continental Army

• Militia encamped around Boston became the
  Continental Army
• A young general from the French and Indian war
  became the Commander

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Dont shoot until you see the whites of their
eyes
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Olive Branch Petition

• Plea with King to stop Taxation without
  representation and the colonies would tow the
  mark.
• King George Rejected it

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The motivation behind the Declaration of
Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

• Writer of Declaration of Independence
• Statesman
• Gentleman
• Dignitary to France

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We hold these truths to be self evident that all
men were created equal and that they are endowed
with the unalienable right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness
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Americans began to chose sides

• Patriots Loyalists

Patriots
Loyalists
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Battles of Note

• Boston - American
• New York - British
• Trenton - American
• Philadelphia - British
• Saratoga - American

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Valley Forge - Turning point for Washington and
his Men
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Colonial Life during Revolution

• Inflation the prices of products rises
  exceedingly high
• Deflation Prices of products fall exceedingly
  low

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Profiteering

• Buying and selling of scarce resources at
  inflated prices.
• AARRRGG!

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Civilians get involved in the cause

• Molly Pitcher

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European Allies shift the balence

• Friedrich Von Steuben
• Prussian
• Drill master
• Turn colonials into regular Army

• Marquis de Lafayette
• French
• Aid to Washington
• Help convince French to help

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The Battle of Cowpens (The Patriot)
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The Battle of Yorktown

• The final Battle of the war and the end to
  British control in the colonies

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Map of troop encampments
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British Troops move in
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French Troops move in
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American Troops storm Yorktown
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British begin to falter
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Washington declares victory at Yorktown
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Treaty of Paris

• The treaty of Paris ended the war and established
  the boundaries of what would become the original
  United States of America