Monday, January 26th
Bell Work:
Please pick up your notebook and
the Sons of Liberty handout from your back table.
Take a moment to copy down the EQ and WOD for
today. Then, take a few minutes to read the passage
and answer the accompanying questions as
directed.
Daily Agenda:
 Bell Work: Sons of Liberty
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worksheet
WOD  automaton
Activator: SFI Review
Lecture: Steps to Revolution
Summarizer: Short Response
Practice
Homework: Read
Brinkley, pgs. 131-145
(review quiz tomorrow)
Essential Question:
What inspired the British
colonists in North America to
rebel?
Automaton– a self-operating machine, a
mindless follower
(Pronunciation for Word)
Have you ever felt like someone expected you to
be an automaton, a mindless follower?
Have you ever…?
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Automaton– a self-operating machine, a
mindless follower
(Pronunciation for Word)
(Possible Answer)
Have you ever felt like someone expected you to
be an automaton, a mindless follower?
It is easy to file in and go with the flow, it takes less
work to conform. It can be difficult to stand up to
friends or others and speak your mind.
Have you ever…?
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Automaton– a self-operating machine, a
mindless follower
(Pronunciation for Word)
What would automaton mean to:
 A Clockmaker?
 A Science Fiction Writer?
Words Across Contexts
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Automaton– a self-operating machine, a
mindless follower
(Pronunciation for Word)
(Possible Answer)
What would automaton mean to:
 A Clockmaker? A clockmaker of extreme skill might be capable
of creating an actual working automaton.
 A Science Fiction Writer? The idea of humanity being mindless
sheep to be controlled has been fodder for many a Sci-Fi writer.
In works such as The Giver, 1984, Brave New World, and more
recently in Divergent and The Hunger Games, the ruling
organizations control the unaware public.
Words Across Contexts
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Taxes
 Direct and Indirect taxes –
what’s the difference?
 Prime Minister George Grenville adds
new taxes to pay for war.
 Colonists felt they were
internal taxes, and they should
be able to vote on it. “No
Taxation without
Representation”
 Sugar Act (1764) – direct
tax but aimed to stop illegal
trade with Spain and France
 In many ways an enforcement
of what laws?
Stamp Act
 Stamp Act (1765) – direct tax on legal papers (stamped)
 Stamp Act Congress – 9 colonies join together to protest act
 Boycotts and later repealed in March of 1766. Why?
Opposition to British Control
 Sons of Liberty – protested Stamp Act, harassed tax agents
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Daughters of Liberty - How would they help?
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Samuel Adams, Dr. Joseph Warren, Paul Revere
 Paxton Boys – rural PA – became famous for chant “No Taxation
without Representation”
 Shows “backcountry” feeling isolated.
 Patrick Henry – gives speech to Virginia Assembly – “Give me liberty
or give me death.”
Virtual vs. Actual Representation
 Virtual Representation
 Like a parent looking after
you
 Briton idea
 Actual Representation
 True representation
 What Colonies wanted
 How would that actually be
worse for them?
The Growing Divide
 1765 – Quartering Act – Colonists had to house British soldiers.
 Part-time jobs by soldiers also upset colonists
 1766 – Declaratory Act – after repealing Stamp Act, Britain issued
this saying that they were still in charge.
 1767 – Townshend Acts – indirect Tax on imports
 Trials in royal (admiralty) courts – not jury of peers
 Led to more boycotts and smuggling
2 Ships
 Liberty – owned by John
Hancock
 Smuggled items w/o paying taxes
 British seized w/ “show of force”
 Triggered riots, 4000 soldiers set to
Boston
 Gaspee – 1772 in Rhode Island
 Colonist set British customs ship on
fire
 Defendants set to court in Britain,
not in the colonies
Is this the turning point?
 Boston Massacre -1772
 Crowd of colonists harassed British guards
 Guards fired into crowd, filling five (1st one – Crispus Attucks)
 In trial, John Adams defended the soldiers, but who did he say was at fault?
 Samuel Adams referred to it as a “massacre”
 Paul Revere’s artist portrayal
Tea Time
 Eventually all of the Townsend Acts were repealed except for some of
those involving Tea.
 Tea Act (1773) – helped British East India Company and actually was
cheaper than smuggled tea.
 But Colonists did not buy it because it would show Parliament’s right to tax
 Boston Tea Party – 1773, dumped 342 chests
 Led to the Intolerable Acts
Intolerable Acts
 Also known as Coercive Acts
 Closed port of Boston until tea was paid for
 Expanded Quartering Acts power
 Governor could ban Town Meetings
 Increased power of Royal Governor
 At same time Britain passed the Quebec Act
 Said Canada was separate (Canada and Florida colonies never joined Revolution.)
 Committees of
Correspondence
 Formed in 1773 and 1774
 Set up communication between
colonies
 Why is that important?
 Supported Boston
 1st Continental Congress
 Met in Philadelphia in 1774
 56 delegates
 Declaration of Rights and
Grievances
 Would meet again the next year
“Revolution of 1774”
 Although not told as much, many areas declared independence
and rebelled in 1774
 Several colonies overthrew royal government and set up their
own assemblies
 Communities starting collecting weapons and trained to fight minutemen
Other factors
 Newspapers and Journals
 Mail system helps spread propaganda
 Rural discontent
 Scotch-Irish people – little respect for British gov’t
 Emergence of idea of an “American”
Shot heard around the world
 British General Thomas Gage set force to capture supplies and arrest some leaders
(Hancock and Adams)
 Three men went to warn:
 Why is Revere so famous?
 At Lexington – 1st shots fired (April 19, 1775)
 Who fired them?
 Eight Americans killed
 At Concord, British confront minutemen again
 But on the march back to Boston, over 3000 colonists shot at British
army and caused over 250 casualties
Summarizer:
Answer each in complete sentences in your notebook.
A. Briefly explain the British view of how the Seven Years’ War
fundamentally changed the relationship between Britain
and its American colonies.
B. Briefly explain the colonial view as a result of the war.
C. Briefly describe an initial reaction taken as a result of the
changing views by either the British or the colonists.