The American

Revolution
🙢
An Introduction to America’s beginning

Tuesday November 13, 2012

Mr. Lisreal
Schedule of Presentation
🙢
🙢 The Patriotic Revolution
🙢 Approach of Conflict
🙢 French and Indian War
🙢 Intolerable Acts
🙢 Boston Massacre
🙢 Boston Tea Party
🙢 Key Players In the War
🙢 Major Events
🙢 Lexington and Concord
🙢 Battle of Bunker Hill
🙢 Declaration of Independence
 The Approach of
Conflict
🙢
Much had been going on to build up to the outbreak of war. The
following are a couple of key events you may want to take note of
 1763

The French and Indian War

🙢
🙢 1754 to 1763
🙢 French and Native American
allies VS English and their
Native American allies.
🙢 Main conflict over control of
land
🙢 Colonists fought alongside the
British.
🙢 Many historic figures of the
revolution got their experience
in this war. Including George
Washington.
S. Johnson. Retrieved from
http://www.writingfix.com/WAC/HistoryFix/
AmericanRevolution_Heroes1.htm
 Series of “Intolerable Acts”
🙢 🙢 The Sugar Act
🙢 1764
🙢 three-cent tax on sugar other goods.
🙢 Only certain members of colonial
population were effected.
🙢 The Stamp Act
🙢 1765
🙢 the first to effect the entire
population.
🙢 All publications (newspapers,
pamphlets, legal documents) had to
have a Stamp.
🙢 Townshend Acts
🙢 1767
🙢 taxes on lead, paints, glass, paper
and tea.
Author Unknown. Retrieved from 🙢 “No taxation without representation.”
http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/student.asses
sment/resources/online/2006/grade10/
ss/10socialstudies.htm
 Boston Massacre
🙢
🙢 March 5, 1770
🙢 protesting colonist VS
British Soldiers
🙢 5 colonist shot, one
dead.
🙢 Both sides at fault
🙢 lead to further mistrust
of British military

Author Unknown. Retrieved from

http://legacy.owensboro.kctcs.edu/mmaltby/his108/revo
lution.htm
Boston Massacre
🙢
 Boston Tea Party
🙢
🙢 This was a particularly heated
protest of the tax on tea. On
December 16, 1773 Colonist
known as the “Sons of Liberty”.
Dressed as Mohawk Indians and
dumped 342 crates of tea from
English ships into the harbor.
🙢 Similar protest followed in other
locations, and eventually tea was
boycotted by patriot colonist
across the 13 colonies
🙢 Was this a good or bad protest?
Retrieved from
🙢 How did the Sons of Liberty
http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/5600/5624/boston_tea_party_1.htm treat Native Americans?
🙢 Was the motive worth the
destruction?
Boston Tea Party
🙢
 1774 - Intolerable or
Coercive
🙢 Acts
🙢 These were passed in response to the Boston Tea
Party and placed restrictions on the colonists
including outlawing town meetings and the closing
of Boston Harbor.
🙢 The Boston Port Act
🙢 The Massachusetts Government Act
🙢 The Administration of Justice Act
🙢 The Quartering Act
🙢 The Quebec Act
 1774 - First Continental
Congress
🙢
🙢 In response to the Intolerable Acts, 12 of the 13
colonies met in Philadelphia from
September-October, 1774. One of the main results of
this was the creation of The Association calling for a
boycott of British goods.

🙢 The First Continental Congress also passed

resolutions stating that the British Parliament did not
have the right to pass laws in the colonies, and only
had the right to regulate trade between the colonies
and Great Britain
1774 - First Continental
Congress
🙢
 Key Players in the War
🙢
Patriots Loyalist Neutralist
🙢 freedom from 🙢 not in 🙢 Avoided
British control. favor of taking sides
🙢 Thomas War 🙢 About 50%
Jefferson, 🙢 About 15 of
to 20 population
Alexander
Hamilton, and percent of 🙢 Pacifism,
population Lack of
Thomas Paine. Understandi
🙢 40 to 45 🙢 “Tories” or ng or status
percent of the “Royalist” as
white immigrant
population were all
factors
🙢 “Whigs”
Major Events
🙢
 Lexington and Concord
🙢 Retrieved

🙢 “The Shot Heard Round

from
http://w
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america.c
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🙢 April 19th 1775
w/winter
96/enlarg
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🙢 British's planed to
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attack Concord’s arms

depot.
🙢 Paul Revere
🙢 Americans lose at
Lexington but win at
Cord
CLICK FOR FUN
Author Unknown. Retrieved from VIDEO!
http://qwickstep.com/search/what-caused-the-battle-o
f-lexington-and-concord.html
 1775 - Second
Continental
🙢 Congress
🙢 All 13 colonies were represented at this meeting in
Philadelphia beginning May. The colonists still
hoped that their grievances would be met by King
George III. George Washington was named head of
the Continental Army.
 Battle of Bunker Hill
🙢
🙢 British attack the
American occupied
“Breed’s Hill”
🙢 1775
🙢 Ran out of ammunition
🙢 This major victory for the
Colonists resulted in
George III proclaiming
the colonies in rebellion
🙢 Now renamed “Bunker
Hill”
Moshu, V. Retrieved from

http://dumpendebat.net/2008/01/31/the-shrill-cry-of-internet-bugles /
 Declaration of
Independence
🙢
🙢 July 4, 1776
🙢 USA declared free from
Britain
🙢 Written by Thomas
Jefferson
🙢 Great Britain responded
by continuing the war

Author Unknown. Retrieved from

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07
/the-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-did-so-
on-august-2nd-1776-not-july-4th/
Declaration of
Independence
🙢
 American Alliances
after🙢 1778
🙢 The French formally entered the War in support of
Congress, as Benjamin Franklin negotiated a
permanent military alliance in early 1778,
significantly becoming the first country to officially
recognize the Declaration of Independence
🙢 Later Spain (in 1779) and the Dutch (1780) became
allies of the French, leaving the British Empire to
fight a global war alone without major allies
 American Alliances
after🙢 1778
🙢 The British were forced to withdraw troops from
continental America to reinforce the valuable
sugar-producing Caribbean colonies, which were
considered more important then the American
Colonies.
 Treaty of Paris
🙢
🙢 September 3, 1783
🙢 Ben Franklin, John
Adams and John Jay
signed in Paris
🙢 Britain forced to
recognize USA as
independent nation
🙢 US borders established
🙢 America agrees to stop
persecution of loyalists.
Retrieved from
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/IbL_c0clUg0/National+Archives+P
reviews+Display+Treaty
Declaration of
Independence
🙢
🙢 The United States first
needed to declare
independence from Great
Britain.
🙢 Thomas Jefferson, at the
young age of 33, wrote
the Declaration of
Independence.
🙢 The Declaration of
Independence was signed
on July 4, 1776.
🙢 Where did Jefferson get
many of his ideas he
placed in the Declaration
of Independence?
 Declaration of
Independence
🙢
🙢 Main Points of Declaration of Independence
🙢 All men are Created Equal
“We hold these truths to be self –evident, that ALL
men are created equal”
🙢 Men are given by God certain unalienable rights
“They are endowed, by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty
and the Pursuit of Happiness…”
 Declaration of
Independence
🙢
🙢 We have a natural right by God to declare our
independence from Britain
“When in the course of human events it becomes
necessary for one people to dissolve the political
bands which have connected them with another, and
assume among the powers of the earth, the separate
and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
Nature’s God entitle them…”
 Declaration of
Independence
🙢
🙢 Governments derive their authority from the
consent of the people
“Governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the
governed…”
🙢 When a government abuses its power, the people
have the right to overthrow it
“That whenever any form of government becomes
destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people
to alter and abolish it”
 Declaration of
Independence
🙢
🙢 The colonies tried repeatedly to compromise with
King George III, but he was a tyrant
“Such has been the patient sufferance of these
colonies; and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems of
government”
 Articles of
Confederation
🙢
🙢 Passed in 1781
🙢 WEAK central government
🙢 No power to…
🙢 Collect taxes, force states to follow
federal law, establish an army, print
money
Constitution
🙢
🙢 Power is shared
between federal and
state governments
🙢 Separation of Powers –
Why come up with this
idea?
🙢 Checks and Balances
system
Bill of Rights
🙢
🙢 1791 – 10
amendments were
added to the
Constitution
🙢 Leaders were afraid
the Constitution did
not fully protect
individual freedoms
and liberties
 Effects of the American
Revolution on the Caribbean
🙢
🙢 After France, Spain and 🙢 The British were forced
the Netherlands to withdraw troops
declared war on Britain, from continental
the Caribbean became America to reinforce the
an additional theatre of valuable
War sugar-producing
Caribbean colonies,
which were considered
more important then
the American Colonies.
 Effects of the American
Revolution on the Caribbean
🙢
🙢 The Trade Relationship 🙢 Foodstuffs from
between the American American Colonies
Colonies and the virtually disappeared
Caribbean Colonies was 🙢 Costs of running
disrupted estates and rates for
freight and insurance
all increased
 Effects of the American
Revolution on the Caribbean
🙢
🙢 Some Loyalists 🙢 Ideas of Enlightenment
migrated to Caribbean and Revolution “All
Islands such as Jamaica men created equal”
and Bahamas reaches enslaved
🙢 Freed Africans among Africans
the migrants…Brought
Baptist Religion to
Jamaica in 1783
War on the Home Front
🙢
 Minorities
🙢 🙢 Native Americans
🙢 Torn on which side would support their
cause
🙢 Many joined British
🙢 Viewed as “Savage” villains by patriots
🙢 African Americans
🙢 Hope of freedom
🙢 British offered escaped slaves
emancipation
🙢 Continental Army promised freedom
🙢 Still, freedom was more a hope than a
reality
🙢 Hypocrisy
🙢 Women
🙢 Took on roles abandon by men
🙢 Often became impoverished
🙢 Flocked to army camps

JAMES_ARMISTEAD
Patriot_Spy
Author Unknown. Retrieved from
http://africanamericanempowerment.b
logspot.com/2009/05/unsung-african-a
merican-heroes.html
 Life for Loyalist
🙢
🙢 Men often tarred &
feathered, beaten, or
killed
🙢 If they joined militia,
property and
possessions were
confiscated
🙢 Women and children
impoverished and
homeless
🙢 20% forced to flee
Original Author unknown Retrieved from
http://www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=13813&pag
e=14
 Works Cited
🙢
🙢
Crevecoeur. J. Letters from an American Farmer.
🙢 Edgewaters, C. (2010, May 5). Was the american revolution justified? . Retrieved from
http://www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=13813&page=14
🙢 Enlargement of paul revere's engraving of the boston massacre. (2010). Retrieved from
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/enlargement.html
🙢 Foeda, V. (2010). The signers of the declaration of independence did so on august 2nd, 1776 not july 4th. Retrieved from
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/07/the-signers-of-the-declaration-of-independence-did-so-on-august-
2nd-1776-not-july-4th/
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🙢 Revolutionary war: the home front. (2010). Retrieved from
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homefrnt.html
🙢 Richards, K. (2010). A timeline of the revolutionary war . Retrieved from
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🙢 The boston tea party. (2010). Retrieved from http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/5600/5624/boston_tea_party_1.htm
🙢 Unsung african american heroes. (2009, May 16). Retrieved from
http://africanamericanempowerment.blogspot.com/2009/05/unsung-african-american-heroes.html
🙢 Uva hypertexts: letters from an american farmer. (n.d.). Retrieved from
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