SS8H3

1. SS8H3 Analyze the role of Georgia in the American Revolution.

2. EQ • Explain the immediate and long-term causes of the American Revolution and their impact on Georgia. • How did the following affect Georgia or the Colonies? • -French & Indian War (Seven Years War) • -Proclamation of 1763 • -Stamp Act • -Intolerable Acts • -Declaration of Independence

3. EQ • Analyze the significance of people and events in Georgia during the Revolutionary War. • Loyalists & Patriots • Elijah Clarke • Austin Dabney • Nancy Hart • Button Gwinnett • Lyman Hall • Battle of Kettle Creek • Siege of Savannah

4. French & Indian War • Also known as the Seven Years War. • Great Britain and France were the two most powerful nations with colonies east of the Mississippi River. • Britain and France hated each other and had a long history of fighting. • British colonists were expanding westward and this caused them to have more contact with the French and their Native American allies.

5. French & Indian War • 1754-tensions rose and the French & Indian War erupted. • British troops fought against the French & their Native American allies. • After years of fighting, France finally surrendered and gave up all lands in Canada and east of the Mississippi River. • Britain also gained Spanish territory in Florida. • Result: BRITAIN stood alone as the one COLONIAL POWER in eastern N. America.

6. Effects of the war on Georgia • No official fighting took place in Georgia. • The war actually benefited GA. • Territory grew, Mississippi R. became Ga’s western border. • Now that Britain owned FL, Georgia was more secure. (No more Spanish threat from the south.)

7. French & Indian War

8. Tensions after French & Indian War • After the F & I war the colonies and Britain didn’t get along well. • Colonists didn’t like Britain’s control because for a long time they had governed themselves. (distance across the Atl. O.) • Britain wanted more control after they defeated France and the colonists resented it.

9. Proclamation of 1763 • Issued by King George III • Stated that colonists could NOT move into territories previously occupied by the French. • Britain felt this would keep peace with Native Americans • Colonists resented it because it placed limits on freedoms • Created 4 new colonies & expanded Georgia’s boundaries • Quebec (in Canada), Granada (in Caribbean), East Florida, & West Florida

10. King george III

11. Stamp Act • The French and Indian War left Britain in terrible debt and they needed money. • King George III decided to tax the colonists, but the colonies had NO representatives in British Parliament. • Several Acts or Laws were passed by British Parliament to tax the colonies. The STAMP ACT was one that angered them the most. • Taxed all legal documents, permits, contracts, newspapers, and playing cards. • This created a hardship on business owners.

12. Stamp Act • The stamps were very expensive and could only be paid in silver or gold. • Many colonists ignored the Stamp Act & threatened tax collectors making many of them afraid to enforce the law. • Colonists protested by boycotting British goods. • Stamp Act ended in March of 1766. • “No taxation without representation!”

13. Stamp Act

14. Taxes and tea parties • The British continued taxing goods for the colonists. (glass, paint, oil, lead, paper, and TEA) • Colonists feared they’d lose the business of the India Trade company when cheap British tea flooded the markets. • Colonists forced British ships carrying tea to turn back from NY & Philadelphia. In SC, they let the tea sit on ships until it rotted. • Boston Tea Party-1773- colonists dressed as Native Americans boarded the tea ships and dumped 90,000 lbs in the water.

15. Boston Tea Party

16. Intolerable Acts • “INTOLERABLE” because they were meant to punish the colonists. • Four “Acts or Laws” • 1-Closed Boston Harbor as punishment for Tea Party • 2-cancelled Massachusetts charter • 3-allowed British officials who had been charged with offenses in the colonies to be tried in England. • 4-allowed British troops to live in colonists’ homes

17. Georgia and the revolution • Georgia didn’t get directly involved in the American Revolution because they were a new royal colony and still had strong ties with Britain. • Georgia’s colonists who supported the crown were called LOYALISTS (or Tories), those who supported the revolution were called PATRIOTS.

18. Declaration of independence • July 4, 1776-the Second Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence which announced the separation of the 13 colonies from Britain. • Signed by representatives from 13 colonies. From Georgia: • Lyman Hall • Button Gwinnett • George Walton (youngest signer @ age 26)

19. independence • Patriots rejoiced and fired cannons in celebration, they even held a mock funeral for King George III.

20. Dec. of Ind. • Made up of 3 parts • Preamble (how colonists felt about democracy) • Body (grievances against the King) • Conclusion (declared ind. for all future times) • http://www.yourememberthat.com/media/2377/Barney_Fife_Recites_the_Preamble/

21. Elijah Clarke & the battle of Kettle Creek • Clarke lead a force of Patriot militia to win a key battle @ Kettle Creek. • 700+ Loyalists or Tories were defeated and therefore couldn’t round up support in Georgia. • The victory allowed the Georgians to seize needed weapons and supplies. • Clarke is an instant hero.

22. Elijah Clarke

23. Austin Dabney • Hero @ Kettle Creek • Slave who fought in the war in place of his white master. • Gave his horse to E. Clarke when his was shot during battle. • He was granted freedom after the war & given a plot of land as payment.

24. Austin Dabney

25. Nancy Hart • Frontier woman who cared for her family while her husband was off to war. • 6ft tall, face scared from chicken pox, and she was reportedly cross-eyed. (Bless her!) • Spy and faithful patriot.

26. Nancy Hart

27. Siege of Savannah • 1779-Patriots led by Benjamin Lincoln tried to take back Savannah from the British. • The French navy helped the American Patriots. • ABC book • Page 42 Read aloud

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