Years of Tumult 1763-1770

Salutory Neglect

Navigation acts, Prohibiting paper currency, Regulating trade

Robert Walpole’s attitude

Confusion and corruption of government

Attitude of colonists

Little Parliaments

Little England

Albany Plan

Benjamin Franklin

The Wars Resume

War of Jenkins’ EarKing George’s WarSeven Years War ( French and Indian war)

Conflict over the Ohio River ValleyVirginia fights back

Robert DinwiddieFort Necessity

Impressments Germ warfare

The “Cajuns”

The Glorious Victory

William PittGeneral Wolfe

Attacking QuebecPeace of Paris

Gains of the Seven Years’ WarConflicts of interest

“British Canada”Sugar islands

British rule in CanadaFrenchIndians

General Sir Jeffrey AmherstPontiac’s RebellionProclamation Line of 1763

Map of Ohio River Valley Region

The “Redcoats” in the Colonies

The Quartering Act

Establishing Parliamentary rule over the colonies

William Pitt and the English national debt

George Grenville (1763)

Changing the Molasses Act

American Revenue Act (Sugar Act of 1764)

New England’s reaction

Whigs

Elected assemblies

Trial by jury

Boycotting imports

The Currency Act (1764)

Post war economic depression

“Middling class” outrage

Distribution of pamphlets

Reduction of the tax on molasses

The Stamp Act of 1765

Acts of noncomplianceVice-admiralty Courts

John DickinsonSons of Liberty

Boycotts and violenceVirginia resolves

Patrick HenryThe Stamp Act Congress

James OtisDeclaration of Rights and

GrievancesLese-majeste

The Stamp Tax

The British Constitution

Ideals of the Magna Carta

Conflicts over representation

Colonial viewpoint

British viewpoint

“Virtual representation”

King George III

King George III

“Kings friends”

Dismissal of Grenville

Lord Rockingham (July 1765-1766)

Repeal of the Stamp Act

Declaratory Act

Protest back at home…

Lord Chatham (William Pitt)

Charles Townshend (1766-1767)

Townshend DutiesCharles Townshend

Mutiny Act (Quartering Act) 1765Disbanding the New York assembly (army

hq)Taxes on imports (external taxes)

From Eng.: lead, paint, paper & teaBoycotts—”American goods” becomes fashionable

Massachusetts AssemblyCircular letter

Lord NorthRepeal of the Townshend Duties 

Riot to Rebellion 1770-1776

The colonies in 1763

Hostilities in the coloniesThe problem with the Redcoats

Working classes and competitionThe role of alcohol

The Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)British Captain Thomas Prescott“Liberty boys”

Paul RevereSamuel AdamsJohn Adams

Crispus AttucksThe Trial of the Century…

Internal disputesThe Regulators

The Boston Massacre

Crispus Attucks

Paul Revere

Samuel Adams

John Adams

The March toward War

Leaders of the rebellion

James Otis

Writs of assistance

Patrick Henry

“Give me liberty or give me death”

Samuel Adams

Patrick Henry

The Tea Act of 1773

The Gaspee incident (1772)

East India Co.

Mercy Otis Warren

“The Daughters of Liberty”

Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16, 1773)

Thomas Hutchinson

The Intolerable Acts

Closing Boston ports

A new governor and new policy

A new government

Quartering Act of 1774

Quebec Act of 1774

Turning toward revolutionCommittees of Correspondence

Continental Congress

Philadelphia

The delegates

The Suffolk Resolves

Loyalty to the King

Raising an army (the militia)

“Minutemen”

The Midnight Ride

Paul Revere

First Blows

Lexington and Concord

Paul Revere, William Dawes & Samuel Prescott

Sniping

British retreat

Another intolerable act

Restriction of the Grand Banks

First Blows (con’t)

Battle of Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)

General Howe

British victory

Fort Ticonderoga

Green mountain boys

Ethan Allen

Benedict Arnold

General Sir William Howe

Battle of Fort Ticonderoga

Second Continental Congress

Finding a General

George Washington

“Declaration of the Cause & Necessity of Taking Up Arms”

Common Sense

Thomas Paine

The Constitutional Convention

General George Washington

Voting for IndependenceThe Declaration of Independence

The CommitteeThomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman,

John Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin

The issue of slaverySigning the declaration of independence

John HancockIncreasing risk

 

What kind of men were the signers?

24 were lawyers and judges

11 were merchants

9 were farmers & large plantation owners

All were well educated

Who said Freedom was Free?What happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of

Independence? 5 were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died12 had their homes ransacked and burned2 lost their sons during the war2 had their sons captured during the war9 fought and died in the war