Road To Revolution
Taylor Drover
Intoduction
Many people know about the Revolutionary War, but they don't really know what led up to it. Many of the events created a domino effect, like the Quartering Acts, Sugar Acts, Stamp Acts, which led to the sons of Liberty being formed, then the Townshend Acts happened. The Townshend Acts led to the Daughters of Liberty being formed. Then the Boston Massacre, which made the Colonists furious, so they did the Boston Tea Party. The British couldn't believe that the colonist would do the Boston Tea Party, so the colonists got punished with the Intolerable Acts. After the Intolerable Acts, Paul Revere took the Midnight Ride, which finally led to the beginning of the Revolutionary War, which was the battle of Lexington and Concord.
Who fought for the colonies?
(Picture is the Sons of Liberty Flag.)
The British were pushing the colonist around a lot, and the colonies were finally done. A group of 9 men started a group called the Loyal Nine, which later transformed into the Sons Of Liberty. The group expanded rapidly. The Sons of Liberty wanted to protest the Stamp Act. According to American History, by McDougal Littell, Page 158, the Sons of Liberty's quote was "No taxation without representation!".The Sons of Liberty had meetings under the Liberty Tree. One of their first movements was of August 14, 1765. The movement was in response to the Stamp Act. Andrew Oliver, was one of the most obvious leaders, so of course the Sons of LIberty went after him. The Sons of Liberty made a effigy, (which is a model/ dummy of a person.) and then hung the effigy on the Liberty tree. A large crowd soon formed, and they supported the Sons of Liberty, so they decided to take the effigy down. They then stomped on it, beheaded it, burned it, and then paraded it through the streets. The crowd went to Olivers house, broke down the fence, broke the windows, broke funirtue, and then looted his house. Oliver then resigned on August 17. On December 17, the colonists made him publicly swear on an oath, that he would not be a stamp master ever again.
Townshend Acts
What did the Townshend Acts cause?
Crispus Attucks and the Massacre
Another Strike in Boston!
On the evening of December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Native Americans and boarded the tea ships that were in the Boston harbor. McDougal Littell's American History says that the men were ordered to "open the hatches of the tea chests, and throw them overboard." When the men were done, a total of 342 chests of tea were thrown overboard. When the British found out, they couldn't believe what happened, so they reversed the Tea Act, and punishments were arranged. (Picture below is of the Boston Tea Party)
Punishment- Intolerable Acts
- Closing the port, so they had to pay for the damaged tea.
- Closing the port, so they had to pay for the damaged tea.
- They told the Massachusetts character to ban town meetings.
- Replacing the elected governor with the king's choice of governor Increased the governor's power over the colonists. (The governor that the king picked was General Thomas Gage)
- Protected the British officials accused of crimes Allowing the British to house with the colonist
Midnight Ride
Lexington and Concord
Conclsuion
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