1. Chapter 5: Americans Revolt Were the American colonists justified in rebelling against British rule?

2. The Road to Revolution Proclamation of 1763 French & Indian War 1756-1763 “No taxation without representation” Boston Tea Party 1773 Boston Massacre 1770 Sons of Liberty

3. Four Perspectives on Colonial Rebellion VS. British Government Moderates Loyalists Patriots

4. Declaring Independence Thomas Paine’s Common Sense Declaration of Independence 1776 Olive Branch petition 1775 Enlightenment: an intellectual movement of the 1600s and 1700s that greatly influenced the colonies. John Locke argued that people had natural rights to life, liberty, and property; he also argued that governments and citizens are bound by a social contract to protect those natural rights and that people have a right to abolish a government when it fails to protect those right.

5. Fighting for Independence Lexington and Concord 1775 “The shot heard ‘round the world” Hessian mercenaries General Washington crossing the Delaware Battle of Trenton 1776 Winter at Valley Forge 1777-78 Guerilla Warfare and the Battle of Saratoga 1777 Cornwallis surrenders at the Battle of Yorktown 1781

6. Treaty of Paris 1783 The “official” end of the war