I.Widespread Revolutionary Sentiment, 1750-1770
     A.Rights of Man
          1.At least well-educated businessmen
          2.Slaves & Women considered unfit
     B.No Taxation without Representation
     C.No interference with Commerce
II.Stamp Act Crisis, 1765-1766
     A.Revenue stamps required for paper (& some other) products
          1.Newspapers, Wills, Cards, dice
          2.Tax booths
     B.Stamp Act Riot, Boston, August 1765
          1.Governor Hutchinson's home destroyed
          2.Similar riots in New York & Newport
III.Townsend Acts, 1767-1770
     A.Duties on imported goods
     B.Colonials organize non-importation
     C.Eventually all duties repealed except duty on Tea
IV.Rebellion and Revolution, 1770-1775
     A.British reorganize colonial government
          1.Change Massachustees Charter: direct Crown rule
          2.Colonials resist & rebel, force judges to resign
          3.Continental Congress organized
     B.Increased sabotage & subversion, 1770-75
          1.Sons of Liberty: Samuel Adams & Paul Revere in Boston
               a.Propaganda & Black Propaganda
               b.Subvert, Sabotage & Mock British rule
          2.Committees of Correspondence
               a.Sons of Liberty Groups stay in contact
               b.Maintain City & Country contacts
          3.Citizen Militias & The Minutemen
               a.Particularly active around Philadelphia & Boston
               b.Openly train & stockpile supplies
          4.March 1770: Boston Massacre
               a.Crispus Attucks
               b.Samuel Adams
          5.December 1773: Boston Tea Party
               a.Samuel Adams
               b.Green Dragon Tavern
     C.British try to disarm population
          1.Lexington & Concord, April 19th, 1775
               a.British search homes for food, guns, ammo
               b.Americans resist: "This far and no farther!"
               c.Black Minutemen at both confrontations
                     1.Lemuel Haynes, Peter Salem, others
          2.British driven back to Boston by Minutemen
          3.Bunker Hill, June 1775
               a.Black Minutemen:
                     1.Peter Salem, Salem Poor, Caesar Weatherbee
     D.Washington takes command of troops, July 1775
          1.Forbids Black Americans to fight in army
          2.Order finally rescinded in Spring, 1778
          3.5,000 Blacks in revolutionary army by 1781
          4.Black & White mostly integrated throughout war
     E.Thomas Paine & Common Sense, 1776
          1.No reconciliation with England possible
          2.Local governments ruled by elected presidents
          3.Written with sophistication, but in common tongue
          4.Sold 150,000 copies
     F.Declaration of Independence, 1776
          1.Enlightenment Values
          2.All men are created equal
               a.Slaves & Women barely mentioned
     G.Americans eventually victorious, 1781
          1.French, Dutch, Spanish side with Americans
               a.They supply weapons, fleet
               b.American victory by 1781
     H."What do you do when you win?"