Transcript Steps to Revolution

Chart Notes
• The Proclamation of 1763 – a treaty giving the
Indians all the land west of the Appalachian
Mountains. Angered the colonists because it kept
them from moving west. A right they believed they
fought for in the French and Indian War.
• The Sugar Act –taxed goods such as sugar,
coffee, and molasses and was strictly enforced by
the British soldiers. The colonists were angry about
the new enforcements, but still found ways to
smuggle in the sugar.
• The Stamp Act – the Stamp Act put a tax on ALL
printed goods including: books, papers, newspapers,
official forms, dice, cards, etc. The colonies were so
angry that they created the Stamp Act Congress with
representatives from most of the colonies. The
congress decided to boycott, refuse to buy, all
printed goods. It worked! England repealed,
discontinued, the Stamp Act. Also at this time,
Samuel Adams created the Sons of Liberty, a group
of colonists who began pushing for independence.
• The Townshend Acts – a law putting tax on several
different things like: lead, glass, tea, etc. The
colonists fought against these items with further
boycotts of British goods. In fact, colonists were
encouraged not to buy any British Goods.
The Daughters of Liberty organized
themselves to teach each other how to make
their own cloth and do other things to keep
from buying British goods.
• The Boston Massacre – started as a snowball fight
and escalated into an angry mob. Five colonists were
killed, including Crispus Attucks a free man and the
first African American killed for the cause.
The Committee of Correspondence was
created, to communicate any further British
conflicts to all the colonies. Colonists used the
Boston Massacre as propaganda, information
designed to influence opinion, against the
British.
• The Tea Act of 1773 – Most of the
Townshend Acts were repealed,
but the British knew the colonists
would have trouble giving up
their Tea so the Tea Act
reinforced the tax made in the
Townshend Acts. Several of the
Sons of Liberty dressed like
Indians and boarded several ships
in the harbor and dumped their
tea overboard. This became
known as the Boston Tea Party.
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The Intolerable Acts (or the Coercive Acts) -King George
was furious about the Boston Tea Party. He insisted the
colonists must be punished. The punishments included:
Boston Harbor was closed – no goods in or out of Boston
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No more town meetings & assemblies were sent home
More soldiers were sent to enforce these new laws
Bostonians were forced to allow soldiers to stay in their homes
without paying
The colonists believed this act took away many
of their rights as British citizens. The
Continental Congress with representatives
from each of the colonies met together to decide
what to do.
Steps to the Revolution
Each step moved us closer to war
British Actions
The Intolerable Acts
The Tea Act
The Boston Massacre
The Townshend Acts
The Proclamation
The Stamp Act
The Sugar Act
of 1763
1763
1764
1765
WAR
1767
1770
1773
1774
Colonial Responses
Colonists were
angry
The Stamp Act
Congress &
Sons of Liberty
Smuggling
More boycotts &
Daughters of Liberty
The Committee of
Correspondence
The Boston
Tea Party
Continental
Congress
Key Vocabulary
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Boycott
Loyalists
Patriots
Mercantilism
Boycott
• A boycott is an act of voluntarily abstaining
from using, buying, or dealing with a person,
organization, or country as an expression of
protest, usually for social or political reasons.
• Ex. I will boycott any Apple products until they
bring down their prices for Iphones!
Loyalists
• American colonists who remained loyal to the
British Empire and the British monarchy
during the American Revolutionary War.
Patriots
• a person who vigorously supports their
country and is prepared to defend it against
enemies or detractors
Mercantilism
• also called the mercantile system, was based on the
benefits of profitable trading. Countries adopted
trade policies that favored the flow of wealth from
the colonies to the mother country
• Mercantilism is based on the concept of increasing
profits by controlling trade