You say you want a Revolution? You know it’s gonna be…alright

You say you want a Revolution?

You know it’s gonna be…alright

Well, you know, we all want to change the world

Political Problems with Great Britain after 1763

Naval PatrolsThe Colonists and British respond to each other

Political Problems with Great Britain after 1763

Freedom from the “French Menace”

Distance from the Mother Country

Issue of Home Rule

Political Problems with Great Britain after 1763

Territorial DisputesThe End of Salutary Neglect

Freedom from the “French Menace”

The French no longer occupy the western borders

Distance from the Mother CountryOver 3000 miles away

Issue of Home RuleColonial Assemblies vs. the Governors

Strained relationships with Parliament and the Privy Council

Issue of Home Rule-2

Parliamentary Representation and Taxation

Territorial DisputesLand Across the AppalachiansBritish ConcernsColonial Response

The End of Salutary NeglectEnforcement of the Navigation ActsCustoms Officials

Naval PatrolsThe British patrolled the East Coast searching for smugglers

The Colonists and British respond to each other

Sugar ActStamp ActTownshend ActsBoston Massacre

The Colonists and British respond to each otherThe Gaspee AffairThe East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade

Sugar ActTax placed on all imported sugar

Sugar Act-Colonial Response

Objections by colonial slave traders

Stamp ActWhat it was

Stamp Act-Colonial Response

Stamp Act CongressMove Toward UnityBoycott of British Goods

Stamp Act-Colonial ResponseThe Sons of Liberty

Samuel Adams

NOT THIS SAM

This Samuel Adams

Stamp Act-Colonial Response

Parliament RepealsPasses Declaratory Act, Quebec Act

Townshend ActsIndirect Tax on imports designed to pay the governors’ salaries

Townshend Acts-Colonial Response

Boycott of British Goods“Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer”

Parliament repealsThe Tea Tax

Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre-Colonial Response

Anger and OutrageDemand for British Soldiers to stand trial

Boston Massacre-Colonial Response

British remove troops from Boston

Trial of SoldiersJohn Adams

The Gaspee AffairBritish search for the guilty

Threat of Trial in England

The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade

The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade-Colonial ResponseResentment of a tax on tea

Fear of a monopolyBoston Tea Party

Edenton Tea Party

The East India Company’s Monopoly on the Tea Trade-Colonial ResponseOther Tea PartiesParliament Passes Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

Closes Boston HarborMilitary OccupationRevocation of Massachusetts’ Charter

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts-Colonial Response

The First Continental CongressRejection of the Galloway Plan

Decision to boycott British goods

First Continental Congress-Sept. 5 to Oct. 26, 1774

Coercive (Intolerable) Acts-Colonial Response

The First Continental CongressCall for a Second Continental Congress in May 1775