Chapter 6: The

Road to
Revolution 17631776

Section 1: Tighter British

Control

Who?

What?
Where?
When?
Why?
How?

WHO?
King George III was the British king who ruled
the 13 colonies during the American Revolution.
George Washington was the commanding
general of the Continental Army.
Sons of Liberty were a group of colonists who
formed a secret society to oppose British
policies at the time of the American Revolution
(Samuel Adams was the leader of the Boston
Sons of Liberty).

George Washington
and King George III

Section 1: Tighter
British Control
WHAT?
Proclamation of 1763 prohibited
American colonists from settling
west of the Appalachian
Mountains.
Quartering Act (1765) was a law
that required colonies to house
and supply British soldiers (3 rd
Amendment).
Sugar Act (1764) placed a tax on
sugar, molasses, and other
products shipped to the colonies;
also called for harsh punishments
for smugglers.
Stamp Act (1765) required all
legal and commercial documents
to carry an official stamp showing
a tax had been paid.

Section 1: Tighter
British Control

WHERE?
13 Colonies
WHEN?
1763 to 1776, after the
French and Indian War and
before the American
Revolution.

Section 1: Tighter
British Control
WHY?
Revenue is income a government
collects to cover expenses.
EXAMPLE: The British government
taxed the Colonies to make
revenue to pay debts from the
French and Indian War.
HOW?
Boycott is a refusal to buy certain
goods.
EXAMPLE: Upset over British
taxes the Colonies boycotted
manufactured goods from Britain.
Write a sentence summarizing
what you learned using the
vocabulary words for why and
how.

The Road to Revolution

Timeline

Proclamati
on of 1763
(End of
French and
Indian
War)

Declaration of
Independence
(Start of the
American
Revolution)

Colonial
Resistance
Grows
Proclamation of 1763
(End of French and Indian War)
a) Stamp Act (1765)
b) Declaratory Act (1766) was a law that
said that Parliament had supreme
authority to govern the colonies.
c) Townshend Acts (1767) was a series
of laws passed by Parliament in 1767
that suspended New Yorks assembly,
established taxes on goods brought
into the British colonies, and writs of
assistance.
d) Boston Massacre (1770) was a clash
between British soldiers
(Redcoats) and Boston colonists
(Yankees) in 1770, in which five of
the colonists were killed.

Colonial
Resistance
Grows
John Adams (Samuel Adams cousin
and lawyer) defended the British
soldiers that fired the shots at the
Boston Massacre in court, and the
soldiers were found NOT GUILTY.
e) Tea Act (1773) gave the British East
India Company control over
American tea trade.
f) Boston Tea Party (1773) was when
members of the Sons of Liberty
disguised as Native Americans
boarded 3 tea ships in Boston
Harbor, and destroyed 342 chests of
tea.
If you were King George III and
Parliament what would you do to the
Colonists after the Boston Tea Party?

Section 3: The
Road to Lexington
and Concord
g) Intolerable Acts (1774), called the
Coercive Acts by the British, were laws
enacted by Parliament in 1774 to
punish Massachusetts colonists for the
Boston Tea Party.

Closed the port of Boston,

Banned committees of correspondence,

Allowed Britain to house troops wherever necessary,

Let British officials accused of crimes in the colonies stand

trial in Britain

British General Thomas Gage was appointed Governor of

Massachusetts

h) First Continental Congress (1774)

delegates from all the colonies except
Georgia met in Philadelphia, and voted
to ban all trade with Britain until the
Intolerable Acts were repealed.
i) Battles of Lexington and Concord
(1775) were the first battles of the
American Revolution.
What did Paul Revere, William Dawes,
and Dr. Prescott do? (HINT: One by land,
two by sea.)

Section 4:
Declaring
Independence
j) Second Continental Congress
(1775) was a governing body
whose delegates agreed to form
the Continental Army and to
approve the Declaration of
Independence.
In early 1776, Thomas Paine wrote
Common Sense arguing the Colonies
should gain independence from
Britain.
Declaration of Independence (1776)
was a document written by Thomas
Jefferson, in which the colonies
declared independence from Britain.
Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights,
Mayflower Compact, John Locke, and
Thomas Paine ALL influenced the
Declaration of Independence