The American Revolutionary War 1775-1783

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The American Revolutionary War1775-1783

• Resistance Rebellion Revolution

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Events Leading up to the Revolutionary War
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1. Proclamation Line

• a. When 1763
• b. What Imaginary line at
• the Appalachian
• Mountains
• Colonists could not move West of the Appalachian
  Mountains
• Native Americans could not move East of the
  Appalachian Mountains
• c. Why England wanted to
• prevent future fighting
• between colonists and
• Native Americans

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Angry Colonists

• Virginia farmers were looking for new land
  for tobacco
• Speculators wanted to make on land out
  West

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2. Sugar Act

• a. When 1764
• b. Who George Grenville Chancellor of the
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  Exchequer
• (British treasurer)
• c. What Sugar act was a tax on sugar
• Replaced old Molasses Act
• Lowered the original tax from 6 cents to 3 cents
• Additional tax on wine and coffee
• d. Why England must raise to pay war debts

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Angry Colonists

• Not used to paying the tax before
• or bribed tax officials

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3. Stamp Act

• a. When 1765
• b. What Tax on everyday paper products
• Examples newspapers, magazines, calendars,
• insurance policies,
  playing cards
• c. Punishment If caught not paying the tax, then
  tried in England with no jury

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Angry Colonists

• Refused to buy British goods boycott
• Formed the Stamp Act Congress to repeal the Stamp
  Act (1766)

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4. Declaratory Act

• When 1766
• b. What Englands Parliament had the power to
  make all laws for the colonies

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Angry Colonists

• 100 years of self-governing colonies were over!

• The Declaratory Act of 1766 asserted that
  Parliament
• had, hath, and of right ought to have,
  full power and authority to make laws and
  statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind
  the colonies and people of America, subjects of
  the Crown of Great Britain, in all cases
  whatsoever.

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5. Townshend Acts

• a. When 1767
• b. Who Charles Townshend new Chancellor
• of the Exchequer
• c. What More taxes
• Examples paper, paint, glass, lead, and tea
• Also, the English replaced all colonial port
  officials with English ones

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Angry Colonists

• No taxation without representation

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6. Boston Massacre

• a. When 1770
• b. Why Still have angry colonists
• Refusing to import British goods
• Smuggling goods
• Not paying taxes
• c. What England brought in troops to force laws
  upon colonists

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Angry Colonists

• d. event
• Colonists threw snowballs at the British troops
• British troops fired and killed 5 colonists
• e. Propaganda Bloodthirsty British killed
  innocent American colonists
• f. Who Sam Adams colonial rebel

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7. Boston Tea Party

• a. When 1773
• b. What British East India Co. had a
• monopoly on tea
• Colonists were forced to buy the tea from that
  company and pay a tax

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Angry Colonists

• c. event
• Colonists threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston
  Harbor
• d. Who
• led by Sam Adams

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8. Intolerable Acts

• When 1774
• b. What Many new English rules
• Closed the Boston port
• No more town meetings
• British took over the taverns
• Disobeying the British laws was punishable by
  death

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9. Quartering Act

• When 1774
• b. What British officials took over colonial
  homes