Chapter 5The American Revolution

Colonies emerge as an independent nationMilitary Victory

I. Structure of Colonial Society• Breakdown of political

Trust• George III• Parliamentary

sovereignty• No taxation w/o Rep

• Only colonial assemblies could tax Americans

• Ideas about Power and Virtue• John

Locke-”Commonwealth”

Eroding the Bonds of Empire• Paying off National

Debt• 1764-Sugar Act

• Popular Protest• Sons of Liberty• Stamp Act Congress

• Failed Attempt• Declaratory Act of

1766• Tension bubbles

…bonds of Empire (cont)

• D. Fueling the Crisis• Townshend Acts• Defiance

• E. Fatal show of Force• Boston-Mar 5, 1770• Lord North-repeal

• F. Last Days of the Old Order• 1770-1773• Semblance of tranquility• Radicals-Samuel Adams

• G. The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea Party (just for you Lauren!)• 1773-Tea Act• Boston-Dec. 1773• Coercive Acts• Franklin’s Plan

III. Steps toward Independence• First Continental

Congress • September 1774

• A. Shots Heard around the World• April 19, 1775-

Lexington, MA.

• B. Beginning “The World over again”

• 2nd Continental Congress

• Thomas Paine-”Common Sense”

• July 2, 1776-Independence

• JULY 4, 1776-Declaration of Independence