THE ROAD TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

I. Changing Policies:

(ending “salutary neglect”)

      A. Navigation Acts:

      B. Sugar Act (1764)

      C. Stamp Act (1765)

      D. Townshend Duties (1767)

II. Escalation:

A.           The Boston Massacre

B.           Burning of the Gaspee

C.           The Boston Tea Party, 1773

D.           Intolerable Acts

(1774, also called The Coercive Acts)

1. Boston Port Bill
2. Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
3. Impartial Administration of Justice Act

4. Quartering Act

--RELATED BUT NOT CALLED INTOLERABLE EVEN THOUGH IT WAS INTOLERABLE--
The Quebec Act

III. Events plus Ideas=

Revolution

A. EVENTS:

Lexington and Concord

B. IDEAS:

1.              Thomas Paine,

  “Common Sense” 1776

2.              Thomas Jefferson:

Declaration of Independence

THE REVOLUTION ITSELF…

      …pervasive localism.

Three important moments…

1.              Franklin in France

2.              Saratoga

3.              Yorktown