• SS8H3 The student will analyze the role of Georgia in the American Revolution
• a. Explain the immediate and long-term causes of the American Revolution and their impact on Georgia; include the French and Indian War (i.e., Seven Years War), Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, and the Declaration of Independence.
Main Causes of the American Revolution
Long Term Causes
– French and Indian War Debts
– Taxation without Representation
– Boston Massacre
– Boston Tea Party
Immediate Causes
– Battle of Lexington and Concord
– Declaration of Independence
French and Indian War (AKA Seven Years War)
• In the same year, 1754, that John Reynolds arrived in Georgia as Governor, England went to war with France.
• The War was called the Seven Years War in Europe but called the French and Indian War in the Colonies because many of the Indians disliked the colonials taking more and more land so the Indians joined the French in the fight against the Colonists
• Spain, who disliked the English, jumped in to help the French
• It ended with a n English Victory and they signed the Treaty of Paris in 1763. They agreed to the following: (map before War) (map after War)
– France gave up all land in North America EAST of the Mississippi River
– Spain gave up claim to Florida
– Cherokee and Creeks gave up much of their land in GA
- GA boundary was set as the Mississippi river to the West and St. Mary’s river to the South
(Ga BEFORE and AFTER the French and Indian War)
Proclamation of 1763
King George II of England made an additional rule for the colonists at the end of the French and Indian War that said
Colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mts
British Controls or Laws that led to American Revolution
• Stamp Act – Tax on any papers goods including newspapers and legal documents
• Intolerable Acts – a series of laws passed by Parliament as a means to punish the colonists that included:
– Closed the Port of Boston until tea paid for
– No town meeting without Governor’s okay
– British citizens were to be tried in British Courts
– Quartering Acts – colonists had to house and feed British soldiers
Declaration of Independence
• Written by Thomas Jefferson
• Was a legal document that can be broken into 3 parts
– Part 1 – Preamble – this part lists the colonists ideas about democracy and self gov’t
– Part 2 – List of 27 grievances (complaints) against Great Britain
– Part 3 – declared the colonies independent of Great Britain
• Was signed on July 4th, 1776
• Signers from Ga –Lyman Hall, George Walton and Button Gwinnett
• a. Explain the immediate and long-term causes of the American Revolution and their impact on Georgia; include the French and Indian War (i.e., Seven Years War), Proclamation of 1763, Stamp Act, Intolerable Acts, and the Declaration of Independence.
Main Causes of the American Revolution
Long Term Causes
– French and Indian War Debts
– Taxation without Representation
– Boston Massacre
– Boston Tea Party
Immediate Causes
– Battle of Lexington and Concord
– Declaration of Independence
French and Indian War (AKA Seven Years War)
• In the same year, 1754, that John Reynolds arrived in Georgia as Governor, England went to war with France.
• The War was called the Seven Years War in Europe but called the French and Indian War in the Colonies because many of the Indians disliked the colonials taking more and more land so the Indians joined the French in the fight against the Colonists
• Spain, who disliked the English, jumped in to help the French
• It ended with a n English Victory and they signed the Treaty of Paris in 1763. They agreed to the following: (map before War) (map after War)
– France gave up all land in North America EAST of the Mississippi River
– Spain gave up claim to Florida
– Cherokee and Creeks gave up much of their land in GA
- GA boundary was set as the Mississippi river to the West and St. Mary’s river to the South
(Ga BEFORE and AFTER the French and Indian War)
Proclamation of 1763
King George II of England made an additional rule for the colonists at the end of the French and Indian War that said
Colonists could NOT settle west of the Appalachian Mts
British Controls or Laws that led to American Revolution
• Stamp Act – Tax on any papers goods including newspapers and legal documents
• Intolerable Acts – a series of laws passed by Parliament as a means to punish the colonists that included:
– Closed the Port of Boston until tea paid for
– No town meeting without Governor’s okay
– British citizens were to be tried in British Courts
– Quartering Acts – colonists had to house and feed British soldiers
Declaration of Independence
• Written by Thomas Jefferson
• Was a legal document that can be broken into 3 parts
– Part 1 – Preamble – this part lists the colonists ideas about democracy and self gov’t
– Part 2 – List of 27 grievances (complaints) against Great Britain
– Part 3 – declared the colonies independent of Great Britain
• Was signed on July 4th, 1776
• Signers from Ga –Lyman Hall, George Walton and Button Gwinnett
