CTCD- HIstory Research Paper

Chapter Five: The American Revolution

I. Introduction

II. Origins of the American Revolution

A. British imperial view

i. “patriot Whigs”

B. Colonial rights

i. Samuel Adams

ii. ideology of republicanism

iii. John Locke

iv. George Whitefield

v. Anglicization

III. Causes of the American Revolution

A. Change in colonial policy and enforcement

B. 1764 Sugar Act

i. smugglers tried by vice-admiralty Courts

C. 1765 Stamp Act

i. Stamp Act Congress

a. “Declaration of Rights and Grievances”

b. virtual representation

ii. Nonimportation

iii. Sons of Liberty

D. 1766 Declaratory Act

E. 1767 Townshend Acts

i. “symbols of tyranny”

ii. Committees of Correspondence

iii. John Dickinson

F. 1770 Boston Massacre

IV. Independence

A. 1773 Tea Act

i. tea party

B. 1774 Coercive Acts

i. Boston Port Act

ii. Administration of Justice Act

iii. Quartering Act

iv. spread of Committees of Correspondence

v. First Continental Congress

vi. Continental Association

a. Committees of Inspection

C. 1775 “Battle of Bunker Hill”

D. 1775 Second Continental Congress

i. Continental Army

E. Common Sense

F. 1776 Declaration of Independence

V. War for Independence

A. Early strategies

i. Lord Dunmore

ii. “Ethiopian regiment”

B. Trenton

C. 1777 Battle of Saratoga

D. 1778 Treaty of Amity and Commerce

E. Yorktown

F. Effects of the war in the colonies

VI. Consequences of the American Revolution

A. State constitutions

i. “popular sovereignty”

B. Articles of Confederation

C. End of mercantilism

D. Westward expansion