A Pre-Revolutionary Mind Map Sofia Barrios

1. ● French and Indian War

1.1. Lots of wars between france and england

1.2. Spain & France become allies

1.3. France loses the war and everything in N.A.

1.4. Spain gets all French lands in america but loses florida to England

1.5. England got all french lands in canada, has exclusive rights to the

1.6. caribbean slave trade, and gets commercial dominance in India

1.7. England’s debt grew so they increased taxes in the colonies for only

1.8. the colonists and they got mad.

2. Proclamation Line of 1763

2.1. British produced boundary

2.2. Prohibited colonists from settling on lands to the west even if they had purchased land there

2.3. This led to considerable outrage in the colonies since many already had land there

2.4. Proclamation gave the King of England a monopoly in land bought from Native Americans

3. Stamp Act

3.1. King George III imposed a tax on official documents in American Colonies

3.2. Many American colonists refused to pay Stamp Act tax

3.3. American separatist movement grew during protest of Stamp Act

3.4. Stamp Act aftermath influenced constitutional safeguards, First Amendment

4. Quartering Act

4.1. King George III imposed colonists to host english military in their homes

4.2. They needed to provide water, food, and hostel

4.3. Many colonist were mad because of it

5. The Tea Act

5.1. England added taxes for tea and it was very expensive

5.2. Everything was getting expensive because of the taxes

5.3. The colonists were sick of all the taxation

5.4. The colonists threw to the water 342 chests of tea

6. Boston Tea Party

6.1. Colonists threw over a 1 million dollars worth of tea to the water

6.2. Organized by the Sons of Liberty

6.3. They organized this because of many factors including “taxation without representation,” the 1767 Townshend Revenue Act, and the 1773 Tea Act

7. Sugar Act

7.1. Passed in 1764.

7.2. The Sugar Act of 1764 was enacted to generate revenue because the

7.3. British government was deeply in debt following the French and Indian War

7.4. The colonies responded to the Sugar Act and other laws and taxes imposed by the British government with resistance and protests.

7.5. The new Sugar Act cut the duty on foreign molasses from 6 to 3 pence per gallon, retained a high duty on foreign refined sugar, and prohibited the importation of all foreign rum

8. Sons of Liberty

8.1. They were a secret organization that was against the british pre-revolution

8.2. They did many plans for england to give them liberty

8.3. They had the motto of "No taxation without representation."

8.4. They planed many things like the boston tea party

9. Townshend Acts

9.1. Created to pay expenses to govern american colonies

9.2. Intended to tax glass, lead, tea, paint, and paper

9.3. As a reaction the colonists discouraged the british on their purchase

10. Tar and Feather tax collectors

10.1. -This was a common punishment given to tax collectors in which hot tar was applied to the skin and then they were covered in feathers.

10.2. -An example of someone who had this punishment is Robert Johnson

11. Boston Massacre

11.1. The Boston Massacre Started as a Street Fight

11.2. There Were 4,000 British Troops among 20,000 Boston Residents

11.3. The tension was caused because of the raise in taxes

11.4. 5 american colonists were killed, Half of Boston’s population attendedthe funeral

12. Shot Heard Round the World (Lexington and Concord)

12.1. British troops were sent to concord from boston

12.2. There was a shot randomly which started the war of independence

12.3. At the old north bridge colonists turned the british back to boston

13. Was the American Revolution avoidable?

14. Quotes

14.1. "Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth." -George Washington

14.2. “Desperate courage makes One a majority.” -Andrew Jackson

14.3. “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace,” -Samuel Adams

14.4. "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."-Benjamin Franklin’

15. Essential Question: Was the American Revolution avoidable?

15.1. I think that it was avoidable because the British could have not added so many taxes to the colonies. I think maybe after the first few they could have learned that it was a bad idea and that the colonists would get sick of it and fight. They could also sell stuff to other countries to pay debts instead of taxing that much.

16. Benjamin Franklin

16.1. During the American Revolution, he served in the Second Continental Congress

16.2. He helped draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

16.3. He also negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War

16.4. In 1787, in his final significant act of public service, he was a delegate to the convention that produced the U.S. Constitution.

17. Important Symbols

17.1. JOIN OR DIE

17.2. Stamp Act stamp

17.3. Liberty Bell

17.4. 13 Colonies Flag