CH7 – The Road to Revolution

Click the image to download Logan Hamlyn’s Causes of the American Revolution Graphic Organizer (AP scholarship at its best!)

Time Frame: 1763-1775

Objectives: At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Explain the ideas of republicanism and radical Whiggery that Britain’s American colonists had adopted by the eighteenth century.
• Whig History– History of the Whig philosophy and its influence on American colonists.
• Describe the theory and practice of mercantilism, and explain why Americans resented it.
• Mercantilism– What it was and how it led to the American Revolution.
• Explain why Britain adopted policies of tighter political control and higher taxation of Americans after 1763 and how these policies sparked fierce colonial resentment.
• Colonists Protest British Policies — History.com Video
• Describe the first major new British taxes on the colonies and how colonial resistance forced repeal of all taxes, except the tax on tea, by 1770.
• The Tea Act– The document writings of the act.
• Townshend Duties, The Tea Tax and the Boston Tea Party– Different parliamentary acts and reactions from American colonists.
• Explain how colonial agitators kept resistance alive from 1770–1773.
• The 13 Colonies Video — History.com– Boston Tea Party
• Indicate why the forcible importation of taxable British tea sparked the Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, and the outbreak of conflict between Britain and the colonists.
• Office of the Historian – Milestones – 1750-1775 – Parliamentary taxation of colonies
• Assess the balance of forces between the British and the American rebels as the two sides prepared for war.
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 – America During the Age of Revolution, 1764-1775 – (American Memory from the Library of Congress)– How the Continental Congress responded to Parliament and the King of England.
• The 13 Colonies Video — History.com– Declaration of Independence

Resources

• Boston Tea Party & American Revolution Facts (thanks Connor!)
• Causes of the American Revolution
  Graphic organizer with illustrations by Logan Hamlyn.
• Causes of the American Revolution
  Graphic organizer by Rebecca Eldredge
• Daily Life in the Colonies (thanks Mia!)
• Hygiene in Colonial America
  Suggested by Ben Powell
• American Revolution Guide
  Student-suggested. Highlights some NYC spots worth visiting.
• www.firstdivisionmuseum.org/education/Pdfs/Rev War/4_Unit Content.pdf – An outline detailing the entire unit.