Stirrings of Rebellion
Pages 9-10
TOTD: What is something that
you have protested against OR
would protest against and WHY
would you or did you feel
compelled to do so?
Agenda:
•TEST Results
•Notes p 9-10
Working on:
•Info Check pg9
•ACTS and TAX Timeline
•Colonial Anger Gauge
French and Indian War► 1754-1763
► Who
is fighting?
 GB and France are fighting over land
 England (aka Great Britain) & the American
colonies against the French and Indians (some)
 Great Britain won!
 Won French territories in N. America
 Wars are not cheap $$$
 Now GB is in debt and need $
►British
passed:
►Proclamation Line of 1763.
 The law let Native Americans have
any land west of the Appalachian
Mountains.
►Colonists
west
did not want to move
Now what…
► The
F and I war debt was placed on the
American colonists
► Got
money by taxing colonists = $$
► British
colonists in America felt it wasn’t their
war to fight…and the TAX shouldn’t be theirs
either
► Parliament
in London increasingly aware of the
value of the American colonies
9/5 Friday: Stirrings of Rebellion
TOTD: What is
something that you have
protested against OR
would protest against
and WHY would you or
did you feel compelled
to do so?
Working on:
• Pg 4: continuing to
make colonists
angry…
• Info Check
• Research time
Stamp Act
-1. Parliament passes Stamp Act
(1765)
-placed a direct tax on the colonists
• Taxed on every sheet of paper
they used.
-required stamp on all legal
documents, newspapers,
license, and playing cards
• **FYI: The money collected by
the Stamp Act was to be used to
help pay the costs of defending
and protecting the American
-affected many colonists rich and
frontier near the Appalachian
poor
Mountains (10,000 troops were to
-Quartering Act, 1765- law stated
be stationed on the American
that troops were allowed to enter
frontier for this purpose).
and stay in colonists homes w/o
permission!
Monday 9/8
TOTD: “It does not require a majority to prevail,
but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set
brush fires in people’s minds.” What do you think
Samuel Adams meant by this quote?
Agenda:
► Notes pgs 4-5
► Colonial Timeline Research
Up next:
► Formative Assessment Info Check Tues
► Quiz Wednesday pg4
► http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/02/top-10-
american-revolution-youtube-videos/
Resistance Begins
-Sons of Liberty-
-2. Declaratory Act–
(1766) states that
Parliament has the right
to declare laws for British
colonies
England can make any
law for the colonies to
follow.
• Secret society of Patriots
in Boston
• Samuel Adams
• John Adams
-No taxation w/o
representation!!!
-protests and boycotts were
organized
-stamp agents were harassed
-law eventually repealed (aka
cancelled)
http://www.history.com/topics/americanrevolution/samuel-adams
1774-The
Bostonians
Paying the
Excise Man
Townshend Acts
-new tax placed on imports such as
tea, glass, paper, paint
-colonists again reacted with
protests
-British reacted by sending more
troops
• This made colonists angry again!
Boston Massacre
-March 1770
-protests by colonists
-British troops fire on crowd
-5 colonists killed
Crispus Attucks-1st African
American killed
-Most soldiers found not guilty
http://www.history.com/topics/americanJohn Adams served as attorney
revolution/boston-massacre/videos
for the soldiers
•one of five
people killed in
the Boston
Massacre
•has been
frequently
named as the
first martyr of
the American
Revolution
•the only
person killed in
the Boston
Massacre
whose name is
commonly
remembered
Tea Act (1773)
► Allowed
company to
bypass colonial
merchants and sell the
tea directly to shop
keepers at a low price
► Tax on the most
popular drink
Kermit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar6cFIfPFW4
Boston Tea Party
-tax on tea still remain in effect
-monopoly on tea given to British
company
-Dec. 1773 colonists raided
Boston harbor and threw the
tea overboard and burned the
ships
-resulted in more troops being
sent to the colonies
• Sons of Liberty involved
• 365 chests of tea in harbor
9/9 Tuesday
“We must all hang together, or most assuredly
we shall all hang separately.”--Benjamin Franklin
Explain the meaning of Franklin’s quote!
Agenda:
 Rebellion begins Notes
pg5
 Quiz p4 WEDNESDAY
 Research Time (use it)
Intolerable Acts
-Parliament passes Coercive Acts in
reaction
-Colonists call it the Intolerable
Acts
-closed Boston Harbor
-suspended basic civil rights
-housed troops in peoples’ homes
-Committees of Correspondence:
• Groups of individuals who
exchanged ideas,
information, and propaganda
used to encourage people to
go against the British.
1st Continental Congress
-Committees of Correspondence
this group had been communicating
with other colonies
-militias begin to form
minutemen
-after Intolerable Acts they call for
a meeting
-late 1774 1st meeting held in
Philadelphia
-discussed rights of colonies
-agreed to meet again in 1 year
Lexington and Concord
-April 1775
-British try to seize weapons stored
in Concord
-Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel
Prescott warn colonists
-minutemen met British at Lexington
-shots fired and colonists killed
-”shot heard around the world“
-colonist conduct guerilla battle
along road to Concord
2nd Continental Congress
-May 1775
-called for an army and appointed
George Washington as leader
-some talk of compromise and some
of independence
Bunker Hill
-June 1775
-Colonists take hill overlooking
Boston (Breed’s Hill)
-British charge the hill 3 times until
colonists run out of ammo
-lots of casualties
-deadliest battle of war
-proved colonists could compete with
the British army in certain
situations
Olive Branch
-July 1775
-2nd Continental Congress
sends King George a petition
to return to the peace of
the past
-he refuses the petition and
urges the rebellion put down
Common Sense
-many colonists had loyalties that
were strong to Britain
-Loyalists:
• those who remained loyal to
the King and the British
• akaTories
-Patriots
• those who supported the move
for independence
• risked everything because
they could be hung as traitors
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/british-loyalists-vs-americanpatriots-during-the-american-revolution.html#lesson
-Common Sense
-pamphlet that urges independence
for the colonies
-WRITTEN BY: Thomas Paine in
Jan. 1776
9/10 Wednesday
“Those who surrender
freedom for security will
not have, nor do they
deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin
How does Franklin’s
quote apply to the
current topic we are
covering in class?
Agenda:
Quiz p4, Research Time
Declaration of Independence
-June 1776 the Continental Congress
was debating Independence
Richard Henry Lee: came up w/
the idea to be independent at the
2nd CC (called the Resolution for
Independence) The resolution
declared "that these United Colonies
are, and of right ought to be, free and
independent States, that they are
absolved from all allegiance to the
British Crown, and that all political
connection between them and the
State of Great Britain is, and ought to
be, totally dissolved."
-Committee appointed to begin work on
writing a formal document
-meant to explain the reasons for
independence
-mostly written by Thomas Jefferson
-Congress edited the final draft
-Issued July 4, 1776
Concepts in the Declaration
-Jefferson took ideas from many
Enlightenment thinkers like:
-John Locke:

Natural Rights

Social Contract

All men are created equal
In the DoI:
-specific reasons for our
independence
-Grievances against King George
III and the British Parliament
Not in the DoI:
-Does not describe any particular
form of government for the new
nation
Eternal Statement
-We hold these truths to be
self evident, that all men are
created equal, that they are
endowed by their creator with
certain unalienable rights,
that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness. That to secure
these rights governments are
instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the
consent of the governed; that
whenever any form of
government becomes
destructive of these ends, it
is the right of the people to
alter or to abolish it.”
-Loyalists
Choosing Sides
those who remained loyal to the
King and the British
often called Tories
-Patriots
those who supported the move
for independence
risked everything because they
could be hung as traitors
-Undecided
As many as a third of the
colonists were undecided as to
whether independence or
remaining part of England was
the best decision