Chapters # 7 & 8

"The Road to Revolution"

"America Secedes from the Empire"

1763-1783

I.  The British Colonies resist Imperial reforms

   *  Britain's first minister, George Grenville, raises taxes

   *  Introduction of the Sugar and Currency Acts

   *  The Stamp Act / Protest / Rebellion

   *  Townshend Revenue Act / Colonist boycott

   *  Boston violence / Gaspee incident / Boston Tea Party

   *  Coercive Acts / Quebec Act   

   *  First Continental Congress

II.  Resistance becomes War for Independence

   *  George III

   *  New Englanders go to arms / Revolution

   *  Continental Congress

   *  Tories / Patriots

III.  Independence

   *  Declaration of Independence

   *  Advantages / Disadantages

   *  George Washington / General Bergoyne

   *  France

   *  Native Americans support?

IV.  Treaty of Paris

V.  Birth of a New Republic

Identification:(Vocabulary)

Tories

Writs of Assistance

Boston Massacre

John Adams

Samuel Adams

Quebec Act

Coercive Acts

Hessians

boycott

Sons of Liberty

Articles of Confederation

Common Sense

General William Howe

General Nathaniel Greene

Stamp Act

Treaty of Paris