<p> UNIT #3 – ENLIGHTENMENT & 18th CENTURY Lesson #6 – The American Revolution (567-578)</p><p>I. England under George III (1760-1820)</p><p>II. Background in the Colonies</p><p>III. Conflict (1775-1783)</p><p>A. Resistance of Americans to British taxing</p><p>1. Sugar Tax (1764)– </p><p>2. Stamp Act (1765) – tax on official documents</p><p>American protest</p><p>1766 – Parliament removed Stamp Act</p><p>1 B. Crisis & Independence 1767 – Parliament passed laws; Americans protested</p><p>1770 – Lord North became PM; repealed taxes on all but tea</p><p>1774 – Intolerable Acts & First Continental Congress</p><p>1775 – clashes at Lexington & Bunker Hill; Second Continental Congress</p><p>1776 – All American ports opened for free trade to other nations Spain and France</p><p>C. American Political Ideas</p><p>English Civil War</p><p>Parliament & patronage system</p><p>D. Events in Great Britain George III had been having issues with Parliament</p><p>Whigs fought George – called him tyrannous </p><p>Parliament forced to restructure</p><p>E. Broader Impact of American Revolution</p><p>2</p>