The road to the American Revolution
Reasons:
*life, liberty, property (pursuit of happiness)
*no taxation without representation
*Government to protect the unalienable rights - given power by the consent of the governed -> a civil government by self-governing people (Scribner graph)
Events that built momentum:
1765 (March 22) Stamp Act (tax on every piece of printed paper used)
1767 (June 29) Townshend acts (taxes on glass, paint, oil, lead, paper and tea)
1770 (March 5) Boston "massacre" (British troops appeared in October 1768 to enforce Townshend acts, tension in Boston)
1773 (December 16) Boston tea party in response to Tea Act
1774 - The Intolerable Acts (blockade of Boston port, no self-government, quartering act)
1774 - The Quebec Act (no moving west)
1774
(September 5-October 26) First Continental Congress (55 delegates from
12 colonies - how to respond to the intolerable acts and the quebec act)
1775 (April 19) Lexington & Concord (Massachusetts) - the shot heard ‘round the world
1775 (May) 2nd Continental Congress -> petition to king (rejected) and form army commanded by George Washington
1776 (January 15) Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published
1776 (July 4) Declaration of Independence - Birthday of America
1781 (October 19) British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia
1789 - US Constitution ratified
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