American Revolution
Madison Rogers
Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
The Boston Port Act was the first Intolerable Act passed. It was punishment to the city of Boston for the Boston Tea Party.
2. Massachusetts Government Act
This act changed the government of the colony of Massachusetts. It gave more power to the governor and took away power from the colonists.
3. Administration of Justice Act
This act allowed the governor to move capital trials against government officials to Great Britain.
4. Quartering Act
The Quartering Act of 1774 went deeper into the original Quartering Act of 1765. It said that the colonies had to provide barracks for British soldiers.
5. Quebec Act
The Quebec Act expanded the British Canadian territory south into the Ohio Valley. It also made the Quebec Province a Catholic province. Even though this act wasn't in response to the Boston Tea Party, it was passed at the same time as the rest of the acts.
Battle of Saratoga
Battle of Saratoga
Lexington and Concord
Declaration of Independance
**The signing of the Declaration of Independence**
Lexington and Concord
The Declaration of Independance
The Declaration of Independence, authored by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, reflected the ideas of Locke and Paine:
~ “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
~ “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
~ "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.”
~ Jefferson then went on to detail many of the grievances against the king that Paine had earlier described in Common Sense.
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was an English immigrant. He produced a pamphlet known as Common Sense. It challenged the rule of the American colonies by the King of England. Paine's "Common Sense" was written in 1775–76. It inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. Paine wrote and explained it in such a way that common people understood.