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    The document outlines the key events leading up to the American Revolution, including the passage of taxation acts by the British Parliament like the Stamp Act and Townshend Acts that angered the colonists. It also discusses colonial resistance growing, like the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts passed in response which further united the colonies. The document then summarizes the Declaration of Independence, strategies of both the British and the colonists, and the eventual alliance with France that helped the colonies achieve independence from Britain according to the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

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    Road to Revolution

    HST 210: The US Experience


    • an attempt to recover investment in the French and Indian
    War
    Sugar Act of 1764
    • lowered the duty on French sugar
    • discourage the smuggling of French molasses
    • British navy as impromptu customs agents
    Currency Act of 1764
    • printed money vs. hard coinage
    • ireduced the flow of money in the colonies
    Stamp Act of 1765
    • papers had to carry the stamp to prove the tax paid
    • affected the colonial elite
    RESISTANCE TO THE ACTS
    • Boston elites 
     
    • Reaction to Stamp Act 
     
    • August 14, 1765 they burned Andrew Oliver in effigy 
     
    • March 1766 the Act was repealed
    Townshend Acts
    • 1767 - taxes on tea, sugar, glass, lead, and paper
     
    • paid by importers and passed consumers 
     
    • help pay for the war & costs of governing the colonies
     
    • local governments immediately rejected 
     
    • 1768 the colonial governments met and rejected the acts
     
    • colonial assemblies dissolved
    Boston Tea Party
    • May 1773 Tea Act
    o dues on tea
    o only be sold by certain agents
    o sought to prevent American consumption of smuggled tea
    which was cheaper
     
    • Colonials saw this as an attempt to control them and make
    them pay for a company that wasn’t theirs.
     
    • Four cities were slated to receive the first tea:
    o New York – tea ships did not arrive
    o Philadelphia – tea ships were turned back
    o Charleston – destroyed in dock
    o Boston - December 16, 1773 
    Coercive and Quebec Acts

     “intolerable Acts” 
     March 1774
    1.  Closed Boston Port until the tea was paid for
    2.  Forbade town meetings and increased the power of
    governors
    3.  Anyone accused of murder in the name of suppressing a riot
    could be tried away from the locality
    4.  Military officers could force soldiers to live with the colonists
    5.  Appointed government parliaments rather than elected
    Declaration of Independence

    • July 4,1776
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • directed to King
    • monarchy versus popular governance
    • the Revolutionary War lasted from 1775-1783
    Loyalists

    Loyalists included:
    1.  British appointed government officials
    2.  Merchants whose trader depended on imperial connections
    3.  Anglican clergy
    4.  Former officers from the british army
    5.  Escaped slaves
    6.  Non English minorities (Scotch farmers)
    British Strategy

    Three assumptions:

    1.     American troops could not withstand the force of the British army

    2.    capturing cities they could win and limit casualties


     
    3.    a clear cut military victory would put the colonists down
    The Alliance with France
    February 6, 1778 America and France signed two treaties:
    1.    Treaty of Amity and Commercy
    2.    Treaty of Alliance

    Treaty of Paris (1783)


    • ratified Jan 15 1784
    • America was granted independence
    • boundary with Canada set at 31st parallel
    • Florida was given to Spain
    • Britain agreed to withdraw troops quickly

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