Lecture Slides, GCC, His 121, Fall 2018

1. “No Taxation Without
Representation!”
Revolutionary America, 1755-1783

2. Lecture Outline
I. The French & Indian War ends
II. Tightening the Reins of Empire
III.Patriots versus Loyalists
IV.The Declaration of Independence

3. Was the Revolution all about a
4 on Tea?₵

4. The French and Indian War
(1754-1763)
• Atrocities
– Acadians, 1755
– Fort William Henry, 1757
• British Leaders
– John Campbell, Earl of
Loudon
– William Pitt the Elder
• Treaty of Easton, 1758
• Battle of the Plains of
Abraham, 1759
• Treaty of Paris, 1763

5. Battlefields of French & Indian War

6. Montcalm Trying to Stop the
Massacre, c.1870-1880

7. Battle of the Plains of Abraham

8. Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771

9. Results of the War
• Albany Plan of Union,
1754
– Disunity
• Pontiac’s Rebellion
– “middle ground”
– Fort Detroit, 1763
• Governance?

10. Benjamin Franklin Cartoon

11. Pontiac’s Rebellion

12. The New British Empire

13. The New British Empire
• Strength
• Expanded territory
• George III (r. 1760-
1820)
• Problems:
– Debt
– Larger government
– Land
– Indians
• Solution
• Dissatisfaction

14. British North America

15. British Solutions
• Proclamation Line of
1763
• 1764, Sugar Act
• 1764, Currency Act
• 1765, Stamp Act
• 1765 Quartering Act
• 1766, Declaratory Act
• 1767, Townshend Acts
• 1773, Tea Act
– British East India Company
• 1774,
Intolerable/Coercive Acts

16. Stamp Act Protests

17. The Tea Act

18. American Colonists React
• Stamp Act Congress
• Sons of Liberty
– Samuel Adams
• 1770, Boston Massacre
– Crispus Attucks
– John Adams
• Nonimportation
Movement
– Daughters of Liberty
• 1773, Boston Tea Party