Friday, January 23rd
Bell Work: Please pick up your
notebook and the WOD Review
handout on the back table. Copy down
the EQ and take the first 10 minutes of
class to complete the WOD review.
Daily Agenda:
 Bell Work: WOD Review
 Test Reflections/
Corrections
 Activator: Video Clip
 Lecture: The French and
Indian War
 Summarizer: Short
Response Practice
Homework: Read
Brinkley, pgs. 115-129
Essential Question:
How did the Seven Years’ War
and its outcomes affect
Britain’s attitude and policies
toward its North American
colonies?
Test Reflection:
 Most commonly missed questions were in those in the new testing
format (tied to a document)
 These generally require you to synthesize information from the
passage with outside knowledge to formulate an answer
 The key here is understanding why you selected the answer that
you did
 Look for context clues
 Use process of elimination
 The question analysis sheet you’ve bee provided will serve as extra
credit on your test (You can earn back a point for each correct
answer you choose and explain, as well as an additional point for
explaining why the other answer choices are incorrect for each
question – a maximum of 16 extra credit points on your test;
capped at a 100%)
Colonial 1700s
Unit 1.5
Our Father emerges
 Ft. Necessity – 1754 – Col. George Washington leads a group of
colonial militia in unsuccessful battle.
 What reason (personally) did Washington have to lead the troops?
 It is called the French and Indian War, but what are the real sides?
 For the actual fighting, William Pitt takes over British troops in
1757 and later the British won at Quebec.
 Impressment
French and Indian War Importance
 Treaty of Paris 1763 ends war. Britain wins.
 Britain gets Canada (from France)
Spain gets French claims west of Mississippi in compensation for
Florida as well as Havana, Cuba back.
 Britain gets Florida (from Spain)
 Britain gets Ohio River Valley
 Passes the Proclamation of 1763
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Colonists were not allowed to settle past the Appalachian Mts.
o Why would that upset the Colonists?
 What were some of the other effects of the war?
French and Indian War Effects
 Albany Plan of Union – Attempt at unity during war.
 Ben Franklin’s idea and “Join or Die” snake cartoon
 Why did both Britain and some colonies not like it?
 Proclamation of 1763 outrage
 Colonists see “Redcoats”
 Territory Gains – 17 colonies
 Cajuns
 East and West Florida
 Taxes to pay for war
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?
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.
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
Links
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcYiLWEAXYo&feature=rel
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ated – video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ikO6LMxF4&feature=re
lated – School House rock – Shot heard round the world
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9pDZMRCpQ&feature=related – School House Rock – No more
Kings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmOe5mFWhWk&feature
=relmfu – Review Video
http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/winter96/massacre.html
- Boston Massacre and Revere’s Painting