THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

struggles of the American Revolution

• struggle for national independence

  • *Declaration of Independence(July 1776)

• efforts to breach class barriers

• African American struggle for freedom

• war of westward expansion

• civil war

• Indian struggle

• international war

foundations of the American Revolution

• English constitutional and political institutions, practices, and traditions

• availability of land in British North America

• the Reformation

• the Enlightenment

• the Great Awakening

Key British leaders and policies

*George III

*Proclamation Line of 1763

• Appalachian Mountains

*George Grenville

• Sugar Act(1764)

• Currency Act(1764)

• *Stamp Act(1765)

  • Sons of Liberty(Summer 1765)

  • Stamp Act Congress(Sept.-Oct. 1765)

Marquis of Rockingham

• repeal of the Stamp Act(1766)

• Declaratory Act(1766)

Charles Townshend

• 1767 duties

*Lord John Murray Dunmore

Key Events and Participants

*Boston Massacre(5 March 1770)

Tea Act(1773)

• -British East India Company

• *Boston Tea Party(16 December 1773)

  • Intolerable Acts(1774)

  • Thomas Gage

  • First Continental Congress

    • Declaration of Rights and Resolves

    • Continental Association

Lexington and Concord(19 April 1775)

• Paul Revere

• Minutemen

Battle of Bunker Hill(17 June 1775)

Second Continental Congress

• Olive Branch Petition

• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

*Continental Army(June 1775)		-Continental Navy(Nov. 1775)

• *George Washington

*Common Sense				
	-Thomas Paine

-Pennsylvania state constitution(1776)

• extension of the franchise to all tax paying white males over 21

• state government dominated by a unicameral state legislature

*coverture

• Deborah Sampson Gannett/Robert Shurtleff

*Battle of Saratoga(October 1777)	
	-France
		-Marquis de Lafayette

Baron von Steuben

*Yorktown campaign(September-October 1781)

*Loyalists/Tories