Road to the Revolution

Why did GB need revenue in 1763?

• French and Indian War

• Boston Tea Party property loss

• pay for solders for Battle of Bunker Hill

• to pay for their very fine tea

Which Acts actually lowered the cost of a product?

• Stamp and Townshend Acts

• Declaratory Act

• Sugar and Tea Act

• Intolerable Act

This image was made by Benjamin Franklin 1754- why?

• To get the Americans ready to fight in Bunker Hill

• To gather the colonies to support the British in the French and Indian War

• It was used with tarring and feathering

• It was attached to the Declaration of Independence

True or False: Stamp and Sugar Act were repealed

How did Colonists respond to the Stamp Act? All are true EXCEPT for...

• They formed the Continental Army with George Washington as commander

• Delegates met in NY for Stamp Act Congress

• protests like boycotts and tarring and feathering of tax collectors

• slogan: No Taxation Without Representation

True or False: There was an abolition movement (to abolish or end )slavery before the American Revolution?

What event does this image wrongly show?

• Boston Tea Party

• Battles of Lexington and Concord

• Boston Massacre

• French and Indian War

How did Colonists respond to the Intolerable Acts?

• They wrote Declaration of Independence

• The met in Philadelphia for First Continental Congress

• They fought first battle- Battle of Bunker Hill

• They smuggles in goods

What does inalienable mean?

• cannot be taken away

• not clear or obvious

• alien

• foreign

When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?

• Before the French and Indian War

• Right after the Stamp Act was repealed

• Right before the Battle of Lexington and Concord

• Right after the Second Continental Congress met