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THE AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
By Robert Carleton
FACTS OF THE WAR
• The American Revolution was a
political battle that began in 1773
and ended in 1783.
• Colonists in the Thirteen American
Colonies rejected the British
monarchy.
• Aristocracy overthrew the authority
of Great Britain and founded the
United States of America.
THE WAR BEGINS…
• The American Revolution, also
known as the Revolutionary war
began in 1775.
• British soldiers and American
patriots started the war with battles
at Lexington and Concord,
Massachusetts.
• Colonists in America wanted
independence from England.
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
•
Boston Tea party (December 16 th, 1773), incident in
which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East
India Company were thrown from ships into Boston
Harbour by American patriots disguised as Mohawk
Indians.
•
The Americans were protesting both a tax on tea
(taxation without representation) and the perceived
monopoly of the East India Company.
•
The Townshend Acts passed by Parliament in 1767 and
imposing duties on various products imported into the
British colonies had raised such a storm of colonial
protest and noncompliance that they were repealed in
1770, saving the duty on tea, which was retained by
Parliament to demonstrate its presumed right to raise
such colonial revenue without colonial approval.
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
#The merchants of Boston circumvented the act by continuing to
*receive tea smuggled in by Dutch traders.
#In 1773 Parliament passed a Tea Act designed to aid the
financially troubled East India Company by granting it (1) a
monopoly on all tea exported to the colonies, (2) an exemption on
the export tax, and (3) a “drawback” (refund) on duties owed on
certain surplus quantities of tea in its possession.
#The tea sent to the colonies was to be carried only in East India
Company ships and sold only through its own agents, bypassing
the independent colonial shippers and merchants.
#The company thus could sell the tea at a less-than-usual price in
either America or Britain; it could undersell anyone else. The
perception of monopoly drove the normally conservative colonial
merchants into an alliance with radicals led by Samuel Adams and
his Sons of Liberty.
THE WAR FACTS CONTINUE…
• The British government attempted to pass
some laws, enforce several taxes and
increase more control over the colonies.
The colonies strongly objected to these
laws and taxes. They wanted England to
have no control over them.
• For ten years before the war actually
started, there was a lot of tension
between England and the colonies.
THE WAR FACTS INCREASE…
• The colonies had no central
government at the beginning of the
war, so delegates from all the
colonies were sent to form the first
Continental Congress.
• George Washington, a former
military officer and wealthy
Virginian, was appointed
Commander in Chief of the
Continental Army.
THE DECLARATION OF
INDEPENDENCE
• Members of the Continental Congress
wrote a letter to king George of England
outlining their complaints and declaring
their Independence from England.
• On July 4th, 1776 the Continental Congress
adopted the declaration of Independence,
in which the colonies declared their
independence from England.
• The war ended in 1783, and the United
States of America was born.
CREDITS
• A Robert Carleton Production.
• Directed by Robert Carleton.
• Scenery by Robert Carleton.
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• Slides by Robert Carleton.
• Animations by Robert Carleton.
• Designed by Robert Carleton.
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• This information was original written
by Thomas Jefferson, with the help
of Benjamin Franklin, Roger
Sherman, John Adams and Robert R.
Livingston ( I got all the information
off KidsKonnect.com/ the american revolution).