AMERICAN REVOLUTION

THE ROAD TO WAR

I. Changing Policies:

(ending “salutary neglect”)

            A. Navigation Acts:

            B. Sugar Act (1764)

            D. Townshend Duties (1767)

II. Escalation:

A.                 The Boston Massacre

B.                 Burning of the Gaspee

C.                 The Boston Tea Party, 1773

D.                Intolerable Acts

(1774, also called The Coercive Acts)

1. Boston Port Bill
2. Massachusetts Bay Regulating Act
3. Impartial Administration of Justice Act

4. Quartering Act

--RELATED BUT NOT CALLED INTOLERABLE EVEN THOUGH IT WAS INTOLERABLE--
The Quebec Act

III. Events plus Ideas=

Revolution

A. EVENTS:

Lexington and Concord

B. IDEAS:

1.              Thomas Paine,

  “Common Sense” 1776