Class+Notes+(2010+-+2011)+-+American+Revolution

=__**Loyalists**__ - context and influences of their arrival in Canada =
 * The Loyalists were the American colonists who stayed loyal to Britain.
 * The Loyalists were disliked and were abused by the American Patriots. Their houses were often burned down by, and they were often chased out of town, beaten, tarred and feathered
 * The Loyalists moved to Canada during the American Revolution to remain loyal to Britain.
 * Loyalists who left America after the Revolutionary war are thought to be founding fathers of the English speaking Canada.
 * “In 1789, it was decided that some form of official recognition for the Loyalists was necessary. To that end, Lord Dorchester, the Governor General of British North America decreed that any Loyalist who had moved to Canada before the end of the American Revolution would be distinguished and honoured with the addition of the letters UE at the end of their name. The letters UE stand for United Empire and remains Canada’s only hereditary title. “

Check it out at [|__The United Empire Loyalists in Canadian History__] = = = __Royal Proclamation (1763)__ = **The Royal Proclamation (made by Britain) angered the Americans because it kept them from land.**
 * After the Revolution was over, Canada could see how effective democracy was and possibly wanted to be follow, but the Loyalists fleeing from the new American democracy were against this.The immigrating Loyalists now made up a good portion of Canada’s population and therefore had say in the decisions that were made.
 * Approx. 70,000 to 100,000 American loyalists went into exile and began new lives in Britain, the West Indies, the Canadian Maritimes and Central Canada after American Revolution
 * The Loyalist influence was part of the reason Canada was still friendly with Britain even after the independence of America.
 * [|__Loyalists and the British Connection__]
 * Loyalists sometimes also called “Tories” or “King’s Men.”
 * Issued by King George III in 1763
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Prevented the settlers from the Thirteen Colonies from land speculating west into the Appalachian Mountains, which was desirable land
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unfortunately, some people already had land on the other side of the line
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This was made to satisfy the natives; settlers could not move into their land without permission
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Anglo-Americans were very annoyed
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Anglo-Americans felt Britain wasn’t interested in helping them and did not view them as equals. They felt that Britain was more interested in helping themselves.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Royal Proclamation- never been cancelled. Lawyers argue at the Supreme Court of Canada about Native land claims must recognize the proclamation
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Effects of the Royal Proclamation (Map): [|Here]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Royal Proclamation] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (scroll down to the bottom)

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Québec Act (1774)__ ** Pushed Americans over the edge and into revolution because the British were helping out the people who they had just conquered as opposed to their allies (Americans). **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It improved lives for the Canadiens, but angered the Americans
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the reasons was because the Catholic Church was recognized, and the Americans were mostly Protestant
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It kept the French Business laws and laws for personal law matters, but English Criminal Laws were introduced
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It failed to deliver on it’s promises of providing more rights, as it kept old feudal laws, and mainly just introduced new seigneurs.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"> The Governor had instructions to introduce new British civil Laws and suppress the Catholic Church, however, information was leaked, prompting the Governor to stick to the original plan
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The idea behind it was to keep Canadiens loyal to Britain, however it was one of the main causes of the civil war.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Americans were also unnerved by the fact that Quebec didn’t have an elected assembly.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It was the trigger point for the American Revolution. [[image:https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/wOkCz5Aox-HCvzbpy73RvdcXpQSdu3ZV9u5_-loIW8O5AEiurTLVbTyv--PSDhaw0lO_Frq70KlFSWOvJJL7xwhGcE7onMOlCL_niGyBGK7PLXIArWwWvvtPQy9pIw width="264" height="191" align="right" caption="external image wOkCz5Aox-HCvzbpy73RvdcXpQSdu3ZV9u5_-loIW8O5AEiurTLVbTyv--PSDhaw0lO_Frq70KlFSWOvJJL7xwhGcE7onMOlCL_niGyBGK7PLXIArWwWvvtPQy9pIw"]]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Quebec Act]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|What is the Quebec Act?]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Stamp Act (1765)__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**This is a direct cause, because the Americans wanted freedom from the taxation of the British. The British were controlling and taxing them even though they didn’t have representation in parliament.**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Stamp Act] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> was made in 1765, 2 years after official end of 7 Years War
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Made Americans pay a small tax similar to today’s on many goods and government services
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Tax was in the form of a stamp, that the Americans were to stick on everything
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The money was supposed to pay the costs of defending the Americans.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Americans “often refused taxation without representation”
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Officers sent out to enforce the tax were often attacked and humiliated.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mobs destroyed houses of government officials.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Many politicians, and English people sided with American citizens
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Few officials were brave enough to force people to use the stamps
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Overall, it was a disaster and was repealed a year later (1766)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">However, new taxes were brought in on tea and other goods imported by the colonists
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Most of these taxes were abolished, except for the tax on tea.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information go to:
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000099; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|PBS video on “The Stamp Act”]
 * <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; color: #000099; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; padding-right: 10px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|World Book: Stamp Act]

__**Indirect Causes**__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Treaty of Paris (1763)__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Lessened the need of British military might, created debt for Britain, and gave the Americans a sense of** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**superiority** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**.**
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">This treaty ended the 7 years’ War (also known as the French/Indian War)
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Signed February 10, 1763 by France, Britain and Spain, with Portugal in agreement. This, however, was after 3 years of negotiations.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The treaty did not involve Prussia or Austria, who signed a separate <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0645ad; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Treaty of Hubertusburg] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In the treaty, Britain took land - Cape Breton Island, Canada, and Florida - from Spain.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Spain got Louisiana and New Orleans.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">France kept the islands of <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">St. P <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">ierre and Miquelon and got a few sugar islands in the Caribbean.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The French people got th <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">eir land taken: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://legacy.owensboro.kctcs.edu/mmaltby/his108/North%20America%201763%20map.jpg__]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__The many Treaties of Paris__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Text of the Treaty of Paris: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/paris763.asp__]
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Intendant Francois Bigot & Vaudreuil, governor of New France, were removed from their positions and placed under arrest.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">A timeline of the events of the Treaty of Paris: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm5IuoCf2o8__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Here__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is an adorable video made by little children about the Treaty of Paris. It is worth watching! Press next when finished watching the video to see the next scene. Many parts of this chapter are described.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Notes__] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> from the cute children.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__Native Resistance__ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Pontiac tried to unite the tribes to fight the British but couldn’t gain enough military support from the French. Even though they lost, it forced Britain to rethink their policies in America. Then to get the First Nations to stop protesting, and to keep them happy, Britain reserved land for them (the Ohio Valley).**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The natives were given blankets with Smallpox so to prevent rebellion **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Natives were also known as “Indians” **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The French traders urged the Natives to resist the British ‘cause the French and Natives both didn’t like the British **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">General knowledge on the subject. (Which is inaccessible) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__World Book Online, anyone?__] **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chief Pontiac was known for his role in the Pontiac’s Rebellion in the years of 1763 to 1766 **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__Wikipedia: Chief Pontiac (not the car)__] **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Indians were in a conflict with the British against the occupation of the Great Lakes **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pontiac tried to unite all the tribes **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pontiac was defeated **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sir (Ray?) William Johnson split Pontiac’s supporters [[image:https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/judBcdYHSEL-eHTvjVXz_IZmhTNU2xpt-Du1eMRnkT41TN1jq8P9vhB4Fk-0Gd0-x7CSWidKxvU3BAOEBQBF5Q-ZwjhbXx8oHfYnYbhm7W8UUIQPL4HbvJ-9qF3wsg caption="external image judBcdYHSEL-eHTvjVXz_IZmhTNU2xpt-Du1eMRnkT41TN1jq8P9vhB4Fk-0Gd0-x7CSWidKxvU3BAOEBQBF5Q-ZwjhbXx8oHfYnYbhm7W8UUIQPL4HbvJ-9qF3wsg"]]**

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__**The Beginning of the Revolution**__

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Originally, British and American people had a close relationship and relied on each other for trading. [|"Great Britain is the wise, experienced father. America is the brave, bright-eyed son and big brother to many modern societies of our world right now."]<< Iris Hung

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">British government tried to tax Americans without their consent and Americans refused; The British considered this an insult <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1770, British soldiers fired their muskets after one of their soldiers was clubbed into a mob of Boston protesters, killing several people. This is known as the "Boston Massacre". <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">In 1773, about 50 “Sons of Liberty” dressed as Mohawks threw tea into the harbour to protest the new Tea Act. It’s now known as The Boston Tea Party. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At the Continental Congress in 1774, the American colonies decided they needed to work together in spite of what the British King wanted. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The British and Americans confronted each other in Lexington Green, Massachusetts. With the tension rising, an excited soldier fired a “shot heard around the world” and the British opened fire at the Americans. Americans were driven away, but few were killed or injured. On their way back to Boston, the British were attacked by the Americans and many were killed. And that started the American Revolution. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">With the help of colonial leaders, the revolutionaries put together a sizable force. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">George Washington was later made commander of the Continental Army. Congressmen first looked top defend the northern borders. They didn't want the British to 'sneak in' from Canada and they thought the Canadian colonies would join them. They tried and failed to seize Quebec, which helped convince Canadians to stay with the British.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">__The Boston Tea Party (December 16th, 1773)__
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">First rebellious act against the British
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">British government put taxes on goods that Americans wanted to buy (most notably, tea)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No American representative in the British government
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Americans mad that they were being taxed by the government but had no say. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//"No taxation without representation!"//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Merchants selling goods lost profit due to taxes
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Americans began purchasing smuggled goods, much cheaper
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">King George III tried to prevent smuggling by giving the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//East India Company// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a monopoly on tea. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//.// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sold goods at a lower price than the goods smuggled, but with a secret tax
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Colonists found out that goods were coming from king, now even more angry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//Sons of Liberty//, group of people rebelling against king, dressed up as Mohawks , went onto ships in the Boston harbour
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Took dozens of boxes of tea and dumped them into water
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">// "Friends! Brethren! Countrymen! That worst of plagues, the detested tea, shipped for this port by the East India Company, has now arrived in the harbour.” //(Who was this quote by)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">British government became very angry
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Made even stricter laws for the Massachusetts colony
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Created <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//The Intolerable Acts//
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: circle; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston harbour was to be closed until the tea lost was paid back
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Led to the American Revolution

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Youtube: The Boston Tea Party] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Zack and Cody Boston Tea Party episode: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxRNZ5Ujdgw__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (part 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHc8CyfXnc&feature=related__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (part 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi4RvTh1d7k&feature=related__] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> (part 3) __<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Declaration of Independence __ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Declaration of Independence]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Written mostly by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The war didn't end for another 7 years (1883)