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Chapter 2 – Birth of a Nation

Chapter 2 – Birth of a Nation. #2 The Road to Revolution. Essential Question : How did England’s changing policy towards its colonies lead to rising calls for independence? Warm-Up Question : How did the French & Indian War change the way Britain ruled the American colonies?

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Chapter 2 – Birth of a Nation

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  1. Chapter 2 – Birth of a Nation • #2 The Road to Revolution

  2. Essential Question: • How did England’s changing policy towards its colonies lead to rising calls for independence? • Warm-Up Question: • How did the French & Indian War change the way Britain ruled the American colonies? • Was this change in governing appropriate? Explain from the point of view of Britain & colonists

  3. The Road to the American Revolution

  4. TheRoadtoRevolution(1763-1776) • The end of the French & Indian War (1763), marked the start of the road towards the American Revolution: • 1763: Beginning of parliamentary sovereignty & Proclamation Line • 1765-67: Stamp & Townshend Acts • 1773-75: Boston Tea Party, IntolerableActs,Lexington&Concord • 1776: Declaration of Independence

  5. The “Sons of Liberty” & “Daughters of Liberty” were formed to protest British restrictions & became the leaders of colonial resistance Mob reaction to the Stamp Act The colonial boycotts were effective & Britain repealed the Stamp Act For the 1st time, many colonists refer to fellow boycotters as “patriots”

  6. “Indirect” tax on lead, glass, paper, tea, etc.

  7. More Boycotts

  8. Colonists created committees of correspondence to communicate with each other

  9. Colonists injured British soldiers by throwing snowballs & oyster shells With only 4 dead, this was hardly a “massacre” but it reveals the power of colonial propaganda Paul Revere’s etching of the Boston Massacre became an American best-seller

  10. First Continental Congress “We have to help Boston”

  11. Lexington & Concord

  12. The Enlightenment • Colonists used the ideas of the Enlightenment to justify their protest • John Locke wrote that people have natural rights (life, liberty, & property) & should oppose tyranny • Rousseau believed that citizens have a social contract with their gov’t • Montesquieu argued that power should not be in the hands of a king, but separated among gov’t branches

  13. Conclusions • By December 1775, the British & American colonists were fighting an “informal revolutionary war”…but: • Colonial leaders had not yet declared independence • In 1776, Thomas Paine’s Common Sense convinced many neutral colonists to support independence from Britain • By July 1776, colonists drafted the Declaration of Independence

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