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Events leading up to the Revolution:
Navigation Acts Restricting colonial trade with other nations.
Currency Act. The Colonies could not print their own currency
Quartering Act The Colonies had to provide lodging and supplies for British soldiers.
Stamp Act The first direct levy on the Colonies
The Boston Tea Party
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Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party in 1774:
The Intolerable Acts:
Boston Harbor closed until Bostonians paid for the destroyed tea.
activities of the Massachusetts legislature restricted.
More power to the governor of Massachusetts making him a dictator.
Answer of the colonists:
a convention of delegates from the colonies to organize resistance to the Intolerable Acts:The Continental Congress.
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Question:
Imagine you had set up a prosperous farm or a good business in one of the American colonies and the British government forced you to pay taxes but did not allow you to have a say in governmental decisions.
What would you do?
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1st & 2nd Continental Congresses: the colonies unite!
�cut off colonial trade with Great Britain
� Parliament abolish the Intolerable Acts
� advise colonies to begin training for war
� define America's rights
� place limits on Parliament's power
� resist aggressive acts of the English Government
�On July 4, 1776: the Second Continental Congress voted to accept the Declaration of Independence.
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The signing of the Declaration of IndependenceIndependence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1776.
The committee:John Adams,Robert Sherman,Thomas JeffersonBenjamin FranklinJohn Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress.
The Declaration of Independence Road Trip Video
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Boston Massacre engraving
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Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
On the eighteenth of April in Seventy-five Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year."
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPaul Revere's Ride
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FlagsFlagsThe Battle of LexingtonApril 19, 1775.70 colonial minutemen and 700 British soldiers near: Concord, Massachusetts.American militia warned by Paul Revere.The words of the American commander:"Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here,"
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Minutemen were paid
for their training
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Paul Revere &the Raiders
Betsy Ross showing the United States flag to George Washington
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What the English were used to . . .
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What America chose to adopt . . .
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Town meetings
Jury
Sheriffs
Chosen Mayor
“No big government”
Volunteers during elections
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