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Chapter 5: The Road to Independence

Chapter 5: The Road to Independence. Mr. Stump Social Studies – 8 th Grade. Section 1: Taxation Without Representation (Pages 132-135). 1. They planned to station soldiers in America and passed the Proclamation of 1763.

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Chapter 5: The Road to Independence

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  1. Chapter 5: The Road to Independence Mr. Stump Social Studies – 8th Grade

  2. Section 1: Taxation Without Representation (Pages 132-135) • 1. They planned to station soldiers in America and passed the Proclamation of 1763. • 2. They feared that the troops could be used to interfere with their liberties and freedoms. • 3. Smuggling = costing Britain money; Writs of assistance allowed officers to search locations for smuggled goods.

  3. Section 1: Taxation Without Representation (Pages 132-135) • 4. To stop the smuggling of molasses imported by the colonists. • 5. Vice-admiralty courts = did not have juries; this violated the colonists’ rights; “innocent until proven guilty.” • 6. Almost all printed materials in the colonies.

  4. Section 1: Taxation Without Representation (Pages 132-135) • 7. Parliament had interfered in colonial affairs, and the act taxed colonists without their consent. • 8. He persuaded the Virginia assembly to pass a resolution declaring that Virginia had the exclusive right to tax its citizens. • 9. He helped start the Sons of Liberty, which led angry protests.

  5. Section 1: Taxation Without Representation (Pages 132-135) • 10. Drafted a petition to Great Britain declaring that states could only be taxed by their own assemblies. • 11. They signed nonimportation agreements. • 12. They did not trust him or Parliament. • 13. To tax and make decisions for the colonies in all cases.

  6. Section 1: Taxation Without Representation (Pages 132-135) • 14. Glass, tea, paper, and lead. • 15. They organized the Daughters of Liberty and urged Americans to wear homemade fabrics and produce colonial goods.

  7. Chapter 5: The Road to Independence Mr. Stump Social Studies – 8th Grade

  8. Section 2 • I. • A. The soldiers acted rudely and sometimes violently toward the colonists. Some of them stole goods and got into fights. • B. • 1. March 5, 1770 • 2. They threw stones, snowballs, and oyster shells at the soldiers and screamed at them. • 3. He was a part African, part Native American dockworker and one of the five Bostonians killed in the Boston Massacre.

  9. Section 2 • C. • 1. Paul Revere did an engraving of the massacre that showed the British soldiers firing upon an orderly, innocent crowd. Samuel Adams put up posters of the engraving, which strengthened anti-British feeling. • 2. Many colonists called for stronger boycotts on British goods. The growing opposition led Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.

  10. Section 2 • 3. It helped bring together people from other colonies to oppose British measures. • 4. The tax on tea. • II. • A. It gave the East India Co. the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying most of the usual taxes. It also allowed the company to bypass the colonial merchants.

  11. Section 2 • B. The ships were forced to turn around and go back to Great Britain. • C. • 1. December 16, 1773 • 2. A group of men disguised as Mohawks boarded British ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard.

  12. Section 2 • D. • 1. To punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party and its other resistance to British laws. • 2. Boston Harbor • 3. Most town meetings • 4. The Intolerable Acts

  13. Chapter 5: The Road to Independence Mr. Stump Social Studies – 8th Grade

  14. Section 3 • 1. Georgia • 2. American • 3. militias • 4. minutemen • 5. Lt. Col. Francis Smith • 6. Concord • 7. April 18, 1775

  15. Section 3 • 8. Paul Revere • 9. John Hancock • 10. 70 minutemen • 11. Boston • 12. Green Mountain Boys • 13. Ethan Allen • 14. correspondence • 15. Breed’s Hill

  16. Section 3 • 16. gunpowder • 17. Loyalists • 18. Patriots

  17. Chapter 5: The Road to Independence Mr. Stump Social Studies – 8th Grade

  18. Section 4 • 1. May 10, 1775 • 2. John Adams, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Washington • 3. It authorized the printing of money, set up a post office, and created the Continental Army.

  19. Section 4 • 4. George Washington • 5. A formal request to King George III to ask the king to protect the colonists’ rights • 6. They defeated the redcoats in Boston. • 7. They decided to strike first and attacked Montreal and Quebec.

  20. Section 4 • 8. Benedict Arnold • 9. He published Common Sense, a pamphlet calling for complete independence from Great Britain. • 10. Whether the colonies should seek complete independence from Great Britain

  21. Section 4 • 11. Thomas Jefferson • 12. July 2, 1776 • 13. four • 14. By announcing America’s new status as an independent nation.

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