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1. ROAD TO REVOLUTIONTAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION

   THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR COST ENGLAND LOTS OF MONEY THOUGHT THE COLONIST SHOULD HELP PAY TAXATION WAS THE WAY TO RAISE MONEY 1763 GEORGE GREENVILLE BECAME PRIME MINISTER PASSED LAWS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO BE TRIED IN MILITARY COURTS NO JURY ALSO PASSED WRITS OF ASSISTANCE LAWS ALLOWED CUSTOMS OFFICERS TO SEARCH FOR SMUGGLED GOODS
2. THE SUGAR ACT PASSED IN 1764 LOWERED THE TAX ON IMPORTED MOLASSES MEANT TO STOP SMUGGLING COULD SEIZE GOODS WITHOUT GOING TO COURT JAMES OTIS ARGUED AGAINST THE NEW TAXES NO PART OF ENGLAND CAN BE TAXED WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT EVERY PART OF ENGLAND HAS A RIGHT TO REPRESENTATION MILITARY COURTS WERE AGAINST THE ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS
3. BRITISH TROOPS MOSTLY POOR UNEDUCATED WERE RUDE TO THE COLONIST SOME STOLE FROM LOCAL SHOPS SCUFFLED WITH LOCAL BOYS COMPETED FOR JOBS IN THEIR OFF HOURS TOWNSPEOPLE HATED THEM MORE EVERY DAY
4. THE STAMP ACT 1765 PARLIAMENT PASSES THE STAMP ACT TAX ON ALL PRINTED MATERIALS AFFECTED ALMOST EVERYONE TWO POINTS OF OPPOSITION WERE 1-PARLIAMENT INTERFERED IN COLONIAL AFFAIRS 2-PARLIAMENT IGNORED THE COLONIAL TRADITION OF SELF GOVERNMENT
5. PROTESTING THE STAMP ACT THE VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY PASSED PATRICK HENRY’S FORMAL RESOLUTION DECLARED THAT ONLY VIRGINIA COULD TAX ITS CITIZENS SAM ADAMS,OF BOSTON,STARTED THE SONS OF LIBERTY TOOK TO THE STREETS IN PROTEST THEY BURNED EFFIGIES OF TAX COLLECTORS RAIDED AND DESTROYED OFFICIALS HOMES MARCHED THROUGH THE STREETS IN PROTEST
6. THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS OCTOBER 1765 DELEGATES FROM 9 STATES MEET IN NEW YORK DRAFTED A PETITION TO THE KING AND PARLIAMENT STATED ONLY THE STATES ASSEMBLIES COULD LEVY TAXES URGED MERCHANTS TO BOYCOTT BRITISH GOODS PEOPLE SIGNED NON-IMPORTATION AGREEMENTS
7. PLEDGED NOT TO BUY BRITISH BRITISH MERCHANTS LOST MONEY MERCHANTS BEGGED PARLIAMENT TO REPEAL THE STAMP ACT IN MARCH 1766 PARLIAMENT REPEALS THE TAX DAMAGED THE COLONIST TRUST IN THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT
8. THE DECLARATORY ACT PASSED THE SAME DAY THE STAMP ACT WAS REPEALED PARLIAMENT HAS THE RIGHT TO TAX AND MAKE DECISIONS FOR ALL BRITISH COLONIES IN ALL CASES
9. THE TOWNSHEND ACT PASSED BY PARLIAMENT IN 1767 TAXES APPLIED ONLY TO IMPORTED GOODS. WHY? TO HIDE THE TAX FROM THE COLONIST TAXED ITEMS LIKE GLASS,TEA,PAPER AND LEAD THESE ITEMS COULD NOT BE PRODUCED IN THE COLONIES COLONIST RESPOND BY BRINGING BACK THE BOYCOTTS
10. DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY WOMEN TOOK AN ACTIVE ROLE IN THE BOYCOTT ORGANIZED GROUPS TO SUPPORT THE BOYCOTT URGED AMERICANS TO PRODUCE THEIR OWN GOODS
11. TROUBLE IN BOSTON 1768 (SPRING) JOHN HANCOCKS SHIP THE LIBERTY IS SIEZED SHIP WAS USED FOR SMUGGLING ANGERED BOSTON CITIZENS BRITISH OFFICIALS IN BOSTON GOT NERVOUS ASKED BRITAIN FOR HELP ENGLAND SENDS TWO REGIMENTS OF TROOPS TROOPS SET UP CAMP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CITY BRITISH TROOPS ARE NOW OCCUPYING A CITY
12. THE BOSTON MASSACRE MARCH 5, 177O TENSION IS HIGH BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF BOSTON AND THE BRITISH SOLDIERS A FIGHT BREAKS OUT BETWEEN YOUNG TOWNSPEOPLE AND SOLDIERS AN ANGRY CROWD MOVES THROUGH THE STREETS THEY HEADED TOWARD THE CUSTOMSHOUSE THE SENTRY CALLED FOR HELP NOW THERE IS A STAND-OFF
13. THE SENTRY WAS JOINED BY 6 OTHER SOLDIERS AND AN OFFICER THE SOLDIERS WERE BEING PELTED BY SNOWBALLS AND OTHER OBJECTS ONE WAS STRUCK BY A CLUB AND ONE OF THE SOLDIERS FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS RANG OUT FIVE COLONIST LAY DEAD OR DYING CRISPUS ATTUCKS WAS AMONG THEM HALF AFRICAN AND HALF INDIAN SAID TO BE THE 1ST MAN TO DIE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION PAUL REVERE ENGRAVES A DRAWING OF THE EVENT
14. TRIAL OF SOLDIERS THE SOLDIERS INVOLVED IN THE BOSTON MASSACRE ARE ARRESTED AND TRIED FOR MURDER JOHN ADAMS IS THEIR LAWYER ALL BUT TWO OF THE SOLDIERS ARE FOUND NOT GUILTY TWO ARE FOUND GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER ARE BRANDED ON THE HAND AND RELEASED
15. PROPAGANDA SPREADS COLONIAL LEADERS USE THE MASSACRE AS A WAY TO SPREAD THEIR ANGER SAMUEL ADAMS DESCRIBES THE EVENT AS A SLAUGHTER OF AMERICANS BY THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT REPEALS THE TOWNSHEND ACT EXCEPT ON TEA 1772 SAMUEL ADAMS REVIVED THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE COMMITTEE WAS USED TO KEEP COLONIES INFORMED
16. THE CRISIS OVER TEA IN THE EARLY 1770’S AMERICANS THOUGHT ENGLAND WAS CONSPIRING AGAINST LIBERTY 1773 PARLIAMENT PASSED THE TEA ACT GAVE FAVORABLE TERMS TO THE BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY COMPANY DID NOT HAVE TO PAY TAXES ON TEA BROUGHT TO THE COLONIES COULD SELL DIRECTLY TO SHOPKEEPERS GAVE COMPANY A MONOPOLY ON THE TEA MARKET
17. SAM ADAMS ARGUED THIS WAS AN ATTEMPT TO CRUSH LIBERTY DAUGHTERS OF LIBERTY SAID WE WILL PART WITH OUR TEA BEFORE OUR LIBERTY EAST INDIA COMPANY SHIPPED TEA TO BOSTON,PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK AND CHARLES TOWN NEW YORK AND PHILADELPHIA TURNED THE SHIPS AWAY CHARLES TOWN SEIZED THE TEA AND WAREHOUSED IT BOSTON IS SET FOR A SHOWDOWN
18. THE BOSTON TEA PARTY LATE 1773 THREE SHIPS LOADED WITH TEA ARRIVE IN BOSTON ROYAL GOVERNOR ORDERED THE SHIPS INTO PORT AND TO BE UNLOADED SAM ADAMS AND THE SONS OF LIBERTY ACTED SWIFTLY ON DECEMBER 16 THEY DUMPED 342 CHEST OF TEA INTO THE HARBOR THESE PEOPLE BECAME HEROS IN THE COLONIES
19. THE INTOLERABLE ACTS KING GEORGE III VOWED TO PUNISH BOSTON HE SAID OF THE COLONIES “WE MUST MASTER THEM OR LEAVE THEM ALONE” SPRING OF 1774 PARLIAMENT PASSED THE COERCIVE ACTS CLOSED THE PORT OF BOSTON TO IMPORTS OR EXPORTS PEOPLE MUST PAY FOR THE TEA NO TOWN MEETINGS MUST SHELTER SOLDIERS IN THEIR HOMES
20. ROYAL OFFICERS TRIED IN BRITAIN COLONIST SAID THESE ACTS VIOLATED THEIR RIGHTS AS ENGLISH CITIZENS QUEBEC ACT PASSED BY PARLIAMENT GAVE QUEBEC THE LAND WEST OF APPALACHIAN MTS, AND NORTH OF THE OHIO RIVER ALSO GAVE FRENCH CATHOLICS FREEDOM OF RELIGION ANGERED COLONIST CALLED THESE ACTS INTOLERABLE ACTS
21. A CALL TO ACTION COLONIST REALIZED THEY MUST ACT TOGETHER IN SEPTEMBER 1774, 55 MEN FROM ALL COLONIES EXCEPT GEORGIA MEET IN PHILADELPHIA CREATE A POLITICAL BODY TO REPRESENT THE COLONIAL INTEREST CALLED THIS ORGANIZATION THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MAJOR LEADERS FROM THE COLONIES ARE THERE MASSACHUSETTS SENT SAM ADAMS AND JOHN ADAMS NEW YORK SENT JOHN JAY
22. VIRGINIA SENDS RICHARD HENRY LEE AND PATRICK HENRY HENRY SUMS UP THE MEETING BY SAYING “THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN VIRGINIANS,NEW YORKERS, PENNSYLVANIANS AND NEW ENGLANDERS ARE NO MORE…… I AM NOT A VIRGINIAN, BUT AN AMERICAN
23. WHAT THE CONGRESS DID ASK PARLIAMENT TO REPEAL THE 13 TAX LAWS PASSED SINCE 1763 SAID LAWS VIOLATEDTHE COLONIST RIGHTS BOYCOTT ALL ENGLISH GOODS NO ENGLISH GOODS COULD BE BROUGHT INTO OR CONSUMED IN THE COLONIES NO COLONIAL GOODS COULD BE SHIPPED TO BRITAIN CALLED ON COLONIES TO FORM MILITIAS AND PREPARE TO FIGHT THE BRITISH DELEGATES SHOULD MEET AGAIN THE FOLLOWING MAY
24. PREPARING FOR WAR COLONIST IN MASSACHUSETTS STARTED FORMING AND TRAINING MILITIAS MADE BULLETS AND STOCKPILED WEAPONS SOME WERE KNOWN AS MINUTEMEN ENGLAND IS ALSO PREPARING KING GEORGE III TOLD PARLIAMENT THE COLONIES ARE IN A STATE OF REBELLION HE ALSO SAID”BLOWS MUST DECIDE” WHO WOULD CONTROL AMERICA GENERAL GAGE IN BOSTON WAS ORDERED TO TAKE AWAY COLONIAL WEAPONS
25. SENT A PETITION TO KING GEORGE III CALLED THE OLIVE BRANCH PETITION ASSURED THE KING OF THE COLONIST WISH FOR PEACE KING WOULD NOT EVEN ACCEPT IT KING GEORGE REPLIED BY HIRING 30,000 GERMAN TROOPS TO SEND TO AMERICA ESTABLISHED COMMITTEES TO COMMUNICATE WITH NATIVES AND OTHER COUNTRIES ESTABLISHED A POSTAL SYSTEM FRANKLIN IN CHARGE
26. THE FIRST BATTLESLEXINGTON AND CONCORD GAGE SENT 700 TROOPS TO CONCORD TO CAPTURE WEAPONS THERE APRIL 18,1775, DR.JOSEPH WARREN ROAMED THE STREETS OF BOSTON SAW BRITISH ARMY FORMING IN THE GREEN TOLD PAUL REVERE AND WILLIAM DAWES THEY RODE TO LEXINGTON TO WARN JOHN HANCOCK AND SAM ADAMS ADAMS SAID WHAT A GLORIOUS MORNING THIS IS
27. FIRST SHOTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION REDCOATS APPROACHED LEXINGTON SQUARE DAWN APRIL 19,1775 CAPTAIN JOHN PARKER AND 70 MINUTEMEN WAITED BRITISH SHOUTED “THROW DOWN YOUR ARMS,YE VILLIANS,YE REBELS” PARKER SAID “IF IT’S WAR THEY WANT, THEN LET IT START HERE” SOMEONE FIRED A SHOT EIGHT MINUTEMEN LAY DEAD
28. BRITISH CONTINUE ON TO CONCORD WEAPONS HAD BEEN MOVED DESTROYED WHAT SUPPLIES WERE LEFT MINUTEMEN WERE WAITING AT NORTH BRIDGE COLONIST LINED THE ROAD FROM CONCORD TO BOSTON BRITISH LOST 174 WOUNDED AND 73 DEAD RALPH WALDO EMERSON LATER WROTE AMERICANS AT LEXINGTON AND CONCORD HAD FIRED THE SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD
29. FORT TICONDEROGA BENEDICT ARNOLD FROM CONNECTICUT JOINED ETHAN ALLEN AND THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS WANTED THE CANNONS AND OTHER WEAPONS MAY 10, 1775, THE BRITISH SURRENDER
30. THE CALL GOES OUT THE COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE SENT OUT CALLS FOR CITIZENS TO JOIN MILITIAS THE MILTIA SOON HAD 20,000 AROUND BOSTON NO LEADER THERE YET
31. BATTLE OF BUNKER HILL JUNE 16, 1775 1,200 MILITIAMEN COMMANDED BY COLONEL WILLIAM PRESCOTT SET UP FORTIFICATIONS ON BUNKER HILL AND BREED’S HILL ORDER WAS DON’T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES BRITISH CHARGE HILL THREE TIMES TAKE OVER 1,000 CASUALTIES MILITIA FINALLY RUN OUT OF AMMUNITION AND RETREAT
32. COLONIST MUST CHOOSE SIDES SOME REMAINED LOYAL TO THE KING AND ENGLAND THEY WERE CALLED LOYALIST PEOPLE WHO SIDED WITH THE COLONIST IN THE FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE THESE PEOPLE WERE CALLED PATRIOTS
33. THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS MET MAY 10,1775, IN PHILADELPHIA JOHN ADAMS,SAM ADAMS, PATRICK HENRY, RICHARD HENRY LEE, GEORGE WASHINGTON, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, THOMAS JEFFERSON WERE DELEGATES JOHN HANCOCK CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESS BEGAN TO GOVERN THE COLONIES CREATED THE CONTINENTAL ARMY CHOSE GEORGE WASHINGTON AS COMMANDER