Road to the American Revolution

Presented by Benjamin Franklin; 1st idea for central government for the colonies

Document declaring the 13 American Colonies independent from Great Britain.

What is the main idea about this political cartoon?

Acts passed by the British as a response to the Boston Tea Paty

Amer. victory near the N.C.-S.C. border that destroyed Cornwallis's army & retreated

British victory near a courthouse in NC, however it weakened the British Army

American colonists could buy no tea unless it came from the East India Company

1.  Continental Army 2.  Put Gen. Washington in Charge  3.  Created the Dec.of Indpendence

Group of colonists that came together as a response to the Intolerable Acts

 This act allowed royal troops to stay in houses or empty buildings

The battle that ended the American Revolutionary War

American victory that turned the tide of the war in South.  Led by Daniel Morgan in S. Carolina

Which one is NOT a principle from the Declaration of Indpendence?

British troops fired on a crowd and killed colonists in Boston as colonists protested taxes

Citizens dumped 342 whole crates of British tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773.

Known as "secret soldiers" during the American Revolutionary War. 

Where the Amercian Revolutionary War began?

Tax that every newspaper, pamphlet, and other public and legal document had to have a Stamp

Taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and other items

War fought between Great Britain and its enemies, the French and the Indians of North America. 

Where did the British march to next from Lexington? 

Closed lands west of the Appalachian Mountains to colonists for settlement

End of the French Indian War; France gave up all of its land east of  Missisippi River

British Government put a three-cent tax on foreign sugar