The Coming of the American Revolution: A Timeline of Key Events, Study notes of World History

Download The Coming of the American Revolution: A Timeline of Key Events and more Study notes World History in PDF only on Docsity! The Coming of the Revolution • 1607-1763=Period of “Salutary Neglect” • Treaty of Paris 1763 –French & Indian War ended – France lost all its North American land – Spain gave Florida to England – England established peace w/ Indians •Proclamation Act – Proclamation Line • mercantilism – economic theory that colonies exist to benefit the mother country – imposed tariffs on imports and exports – limited trade w/ other countries and their colonies – privileged British merchants and British ships • Prosecuted in Vice-Admiralty Courts • Hurt colonial merchants, craftsmen, sailors, dock workers, and consumers the most Acts of Trade and Navigation (1763-67) The Coming of the Revolution • Tea Act (1773) – Monopoly (NOT A TAX!) for the East India Co. – Boston Tea Party 90,000 lbs. of tea destroyed • Coercive (Intolerable) Acts (1773-74) – Closed Boston Harbor – Dissolved Massachusetts Assembly – Military Governor New Quartering Act – Intended to isolate Massachusetts – Galvanized colonies instead Engraving by W. D. Cooper (1789) The Revolution Begins • 1st Continental Congress (fall 1774) – “Declaration and Resolves” – Raised militia (minutemen) • Lexington & Concord (April 1775) – British soldiers sent from Boston to seize weapons / capture Adams & Hancock • 2nd Cont Congress (May 1775) – established Continental Army (named Gen. George Washington, commander) – appointed committee to write Dec. of Ind. Declaring Independence, 1776 • Declaration of Independence – NOT a law or legal document – Justified the colonies’ separation from England Common Sense by Thomas Paine • instant “bestseller” • put revolutionary ideas in layman’s terms Exp nation – put doctrines of natural rights & consent of the governed into practice for the first time