Road to Revolutions by Victoria Reep https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh The Events that Led to the Revolution en-us 2017-08-29 23:17:55 UTC 2017-08-30 01:20:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Bigthunderstorm.png The Seven Years War reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553372 Lasted from 1756-1763]]> 2017-08-29 23:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553372 A Need for Funds reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553470
  • Britain decides that they should tax the colonists instead of the citizens living in Britain
  • British citizens had already paid taxes to support the war
  • Britain thought the colonists should pay for their own defense
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:19:55 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553470     Colonial Dissatisfaction reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553674
  • The colonists had already made sizeable contributions to the war effort and didn't see why they had to produce new funds
  • They were also irked by the fact that they were being "represented" by men they hadn't even elected
    • believed a legislator couldn't represent people who did not choose him
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553674     Sugar Act of 1764 reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553977 taxed molasses trade (imports)]]> 2017-08-29 23:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183553977 Stamp Act of 1765 reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554104 taxed almost all printed materials including legal documents, newspapers, and diplomas]]> 2017-08-29 23:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554104 Colonial Response reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554354
  • refused to purchase stamps and protested in the streets
  • urban mobs forces stamp collectors to resign
  • those who violated the Stamp Act were put on trial in Admiralty Courts 
    • colonists believed that their rights to trial by jury were being violated
  • Stamp Act Congress
    • delegates from nine colonies met in New York in October of 1765
    • passed resolutions asserting their rights and petitioned the king and Parliament for redress of their grievances
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554354     British Response reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554459
  • repealed the Stamp Act in 1766
  • made it clear that they wouldn't compromise with the colonists again
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:27:04 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554459     Declaratory Act of 1766 reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554572
  • passed the same day the Stamp Act was repealed
  • stated that Parliament had authority to legislate for Americans in "all cases whatsoever"
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:28:08 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554572     1767: new taxes were being passed reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554870 Most Notably: Tea Act of 1773]]> 2017-08-29 23:30:50 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183554870 1773 and After reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555006
  • colonists made it clear that they were prepared to sacrifice personal comfort to preserve their liberties 
  • organized boycotts of goods manufactured in Britain
    • turned personal acts (like buying tea) into public testimony of defense
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555006     reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555484 the Revolution may have been avoided prior to 1773]]> 2017-08-29 23:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555484 The Boston Tea Party reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555585 Time: December 16,1773; Night
    Victims: East India Company (and ~46 tons of tea)
    Perpetrators: angry colonists dressed as Native Americans ]]>     2017-08-29 23:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555585     Fun Fact reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555881 the amount of tea dumped into the harbor that night was worth roughly $1 million dollars in today's currency]]> 2017-08-29 23:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183555881 The Intolerable Acts reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183556230 (known in Britain as the Coercive Acts)
    • closed Boston Harbor (Port Act)
    • nullified Massachusetts Charter of 1691; instituted a new government with greater royal control (Massachusetts Government act)
    • allowed royal officials accused of committing felonies while executing their offices in Mass. to be tried in England (Administration of Justice Act)
    • Quartering Act: facilitated housing troops where they could be used against colonial civilians 
      • General Thomas Gage, as governor of Mass, essentially puts the colony under military rule
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  • Crown officials lost control over the New England countryside
  • armed insurgency terrorized anyone who defended British policy
  • militia units began preparing for an armed confrontation with General Thomas Gage's troops
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183556369     Women and the Road to Revolution reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183556711
  • played a key role in in the success of non-importation movement
  • women gave up buying tea if their husbands would stop drinking ("The Ladies" of Newport, Rhode Island)
  • carried subscriptions lists from door to door
  • made homespun cloth to replace British textiles and sought alternatives to imported tea
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:46:04 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183556711     First Continental Congress reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183557040
  • met in Philadelphia
  • included the most respected leaders from the colonies
  • hoped to resolve the imperial crisis without further violence
  • the Association
    • ordered a universal boycott of British goods
    • established committees who would punish those not abiding to the boycott 
      • the committees become the infrastructure for the revolution 
      • communicated through newspapers
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183557040     September, 1774 reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183557655 British navy bombed Boston]]> 2017-08-29 23:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183557655 April, 1775; Lexington and Concord reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183557852
  • ordinary farmers relied on the ideas of John Locke to justify how they were taking arms against the British:
    • all people possessed certain rights and it was the responsibility of the government to protect those rights
    • when the government did not do so, it no longer merited obedience
  • Churches began proclaiming that it was the congregation's duty to take arms against the "King's Soldiers" 
  • war had begun between provincial and regular soldiers at Lexington and Concord (April 19, 1775)
    • ]]>     2017-08-29 23:55:51 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183557852     Thomas Paine reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183558605
  • stated that the moment had arrived to create a new republic
  • published Common Sense in January of 1776
    • captured popular sentiments
    • stated that monarchy was a fundamentally corrupt form of government
    • declared that it was high time Americans established an independent republic
    • ]]>     2017-08-30 00:02:15 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183558605     July 4, 1776 reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183559129
  • Continental Congress begins to accept Paine's logic 
  • on July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress affirmed Thomas Jefferson's declaration that "all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
    • ]]>     2017-08-30 00:06:31 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183559129     THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183559608 2017-08-30 00:09:52 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183559608 Second Continental Congress and the Events of 1775 reepve19 https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183564620
  • petitioned (again) the king for redress of grievances and assured him of the colonists' loyalty
  • King George III spoke to Parliament in October of 1775, stating that the Americans were seeking independence 
  • Lord Dunmore offered freedom to slaves who fled British lines; this alienated white planters
  • December: king signs the Prohibitory Act
    • put American shipping on the same status as that of enemy nations
      • put colonists outside his protection
    • negotiated with German princes to help put down the American "rebellion" 
  • drove the Americans toward the independence that the king sought to prevent
    • ]]>     2017-08-30 00:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/reepve19/kpa5zwgy48wh/wish/183564620