Miss O.
The 13 original colonies
In North America,
The colonists came
And staked their claim
In 13 colonies!
New Hampshire, Connecticut
and Rhode Island
Massachusetts too.
These were New England colonies,
The Original Colonies!
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Delaware too.
These were the Middle colonies,
The Original Colonies!
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia, Georgia, too.
These were the Southern colonies,
Thirteen Colonies!
 Also known as England
 Island country in Europe
 Thirteen colonies were part of England’s “empire”
Great Britain
 King of England
 England’s government made up of many British men
 Made decisions for the colonies (America) without
asking them or including any of the colonist leaders in
the decision making
 1754-1763 (also known
as the 7 Years War)
 Great Britain and
colonists against
French and Indians
over who got the NEW
LAND in America
 French and Indians lost.
 The war was very expensive
for Great Britain.
 After the war, Great Britain
needed lots of money to
make up for all that they had
lost in the French and Indian
War.
 Even after the French
and Indian War was over
 “to protect” the colonists
from Indian raids
• no settling or fur
trapping west of the
mountains.
• the colonies could not
grow bigger!
 British Logic = “Since we
protected the colonies
from the Indians and the
French taking over and
won the war for them,
they should be the ones to
pay the war debt we have,
so let’s tax them!”
 Tax = extra money paid on
bought goods that goes to
the government
• Colonists had to have a
stamp that cost money
on newspapers, wills,
documents to get
married, documents to
buy a house, and death
certificates.
• The colonists had to house and
feed the British soldiers who
“were there to protect them from
Indians.”
• The British were actually there to
keep an eye on the colonists and
enforce the taxation.
 Parliament believed it had legal authority in the
colonies, while the colonists believed their local
assemblies had legal authority.
 Parliament
believed it had the
right to tax the
colonies, while the
colonists believed
they should not be
taxed since they
had no
representation in
Parliament.
 Lived in Boston, Massachusetts
 Owned a tavern
 Hated being taxed
 Started a secret club
 Sons of Liberty
• A club started by Samuel
Adams and James Otis to
protest the Stamp Act.
• The colonists were forced
to pay a tax (extra money)
on:
1. Glass
2. Lead
3. Paint
4. Paper
5. Tea
• Colonists
were
throwing
rocks and
snowballs at
Redcoats.
• Redcoats
fired shots
into the
crowd of
people.
• Formed to keep the colonists informed about what was going
on in Boston.
• England told the colonists
that they could only buy tea
from the East India
Company, and they still had
to pay a tax on tea.
• Boston citizens dress up as
Indians boarded one of the
East India Company ships
loaded with tea and dumped
342 cartons of tea into the
harbor to protest the British
tax on tea.
• To punish the people of
Boston for the Boston
Tea Party :
• demanded payment for
all the tea destroyed
• closed the port at Boston
and would let nothing in
or out
• would not let colonists
meet together.
“Give me liberty or give
me death!”
Shot
heard
round
the
world.
“Should an
island rule a
continent?”
47 page
pamphlet
full of bold
thoughts
that got
people
thinking.
“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.”