Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 24 views

    The American Revolutio1

    Uploaded by

    Sammi Lovesyouthemostestest Garrett
    The document summarizes 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. This led to protests like the Boston Tea Party. In response, the Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists. The First and Second Continental Congresses were convened to discuss colonial grievances and petition the king, but the revolution began with fighting at Lexington and Concord. This ultimately led Congress to declare independence from Britain and the founding of the United States.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    The American Revolutio1

    Uploaded by

    Sammi Lovesyouthemostestest Garrett
    24 views2 pages
    The document summarizes 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. This led to protests like the Boston Tea Party. In response, the Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists. The First and Second Continental Congresses were convened to discuss colonial grievances and petition the king, but the revolution began with fighting at Lexington and Concord. This ultimately led Congress to declare independence from Britain and the founding of the United States.

    Original Description:

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    The document summarizes 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. This led to protests like the Boston Tea Party. In response, the Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists. The First and Second Continental Congresses were convened to discuss colonial grievances and petition the king, but the revolution began with fighting at Lexington and Concord. This ultimately led Congress to declare independence from Britain and the founding of the United States.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as odt, pdf, or txt
    24 views2 pages

    The American Revolutio1

    Uploaded by

    Sammi Lovesyouthemostestest Garrett
    The document summarizes 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. This led to protests like the Boston Tea Party. In response, the Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament to punish the colonists. The First and Second Continental Congresses were convened to discuss colonial grievances and petition the king, but the revolution began with fighting at Lexington and Concord. This ultimately led Congress to declare independence from Britain and the founding of the United States.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as ODT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as odt, pdf, or txt
    of 2

    The American Revolution Samantha Garrett History 04

    Taxation Without Representation The Sugar Act was the first fully enforced tax levied in America solely for the purpose of raising revenue. Americans throughout the thirteen colonies cried out against taxation without representation and made informal nonimportation agreements of certain British goods in protest. Several colonial leaders convened the Stamp Act Congress in New York to petition Parliament and King George III to repeal the tax. In 1766, Parliament bowed to public pressure and repealed the Stamp Act. But it also quietly passed the Declaratory Act, which stipulated that Parliament reserved the right to tax the colonies anytime it chose. The Townshend Acts and Boston Massacre In 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which levied another series of taxes on lead, paints, and tea known as the Townshend Duties. In the same series of acts, Britain passed the Suspension Act, which suspended the New York assembly for not enforcing the Quartering Act. To prevent violent protests, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson requested assistance from the British army, and in 1768, four thousand redcoats landed in the city to help maintain order. Nevertheless, on March 5, 1770, an angry mob clashed with several British troops. Five colonists died, and news of the Boston Massacre quickly spread throughout the colonies. The Boston Tea Party In 1773, Parliament passed the Tea Act, granting the financially troubled British East India Company a trade monopoly on the tea exported to the American colonies. In many American cities, tea agents resigned or canceled orders, and merchants refused consignments in response to the unpopular act. Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts, determined to uphold the law, ordered that three ships arriving in Boston harbor should be allowed to deposit their cargoes and that appropriate payments should be made for the goods. On the night of December 16, 1773, while the ships lingered in the harbor, sixty men boarded the ships, disguised as Native Americans, and dumped the entire shipment of tea into the harbor. That event is now famously known as the Boston Tea Party.

    The Intolerable and Acts In January 1774, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, also known as the Intolerable Acts, which shut down Boston Harbor until the British East India Company had been fully reimbursed for the tea destroyed in the Boston Tea Party. Americans throughout the colonies sent food and supplies to Boston via land to prevent death from hunger and cold in the bitter New England winter. Parliament also passed the Quebec Act at the same time, which granted more rights to French Canadian Catholics and extended French Canadian territory south to the western borders of New York and Pennsylvania. The First Continental Congress and Boycott To protest the Intolerable Acts, prominent colonials gathered in Philadelphia at the First Continental Congress in autumn of 1774. They once again petitioned Parliament, King George III, and the British people to repeal the acts and restore friendly relations. For additional motivation, they also decided to institute a boycott, or ban, of all British goods in the colonies. Lexington, Concord, and the Second Continental Congress On April 19, 1775, part of the British occupation force in Boston marched to the nearby town of Concord, Massachusetts, to seize a colonial militia arsenal. Militiamen of Lexington and Concord intercepted them and attacked. The first shotthe so-called shot heard round the world made famous by poet Ralph Waldo Emersonwas one of many that hounded the British and forced them to retreat to Boston. Thousands of militiamen from nearby colonies flocked to Boston to assist. In the meantime, leaders convened the Second Continental Congress to discuss options. In one final attempt for peaceful reconciliation, the Olive Branch Petition, they professed their love and loyalty to King George III and begged him to address their grievances. The king rejected the petition and formally declared that the colonies were in a state of rebellion. The Declaration of Independence The Second Continental Congress chose George Washington, a southerner, to command the militiamen besieging Boston in the north. They also appropriated money for a small navy and for transforming the undisciplined militias into the professional Continental Army. Encouraged by a strong colonial campaign in which the British scored only narrow victories, many colonists began to advocate total independence as opposed to having full rights within the British Empire. The next year, the congressmen voted on July 2, 1776, to declare their independence. Thomas Jefferson, a young lawyer from Virginia, drafted the Declaration of Independence. The United States was born.

    You might also like