Monday, October 19
Today begins a new nine weeks!
Create habits that lead to success!
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Students will view and discuss a powerpoint of
the Causes of the American Revolution.
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Students will correct causes notes from last
week. Please get a RED pen.
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Students will be about to state at least 3
causes of the American Revolution.
Introduction Video
The British and the colonies had good relations
prior to 1763.
The colonies had the right to govern themselves
after Glorious Revolution under William and Mary.
Colonists were left alone. (salutary neglect)
The colonies were far from Britain.
(across the Atlantic Ocean)
Proclamation of
1763:
British forbade
colonists to settle
west of the
Appalachian Mts.
after Pontiac’s
Uprising
The Colonies and Britain Grow
Apart
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Proclamation of 1763 increases tension
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Colonists could not move west of the
Appalachian Mountains.
Britain wanted the Native Americans to
remain on the land in order to prevent
conflicts with them.
The colonists were angry and settled there
anyway.
British Troops and Taxes
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As a result of the Proclamation of 1763,
King George III decided to keep British
troops in North America.
Parliament passed the Quartering Act
and Sugar Act.
Britain needed income to help pay for
the French and Indian War and to keep
troops in the colonies.
Quartering Act
Required colonists to house British
soldiers and provide them with supplies
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Sugar Act
Placed a tax on sugar,
molasses, and other products
shipped to the colonies
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Britain Passes the Stamp Act
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The Sugar Act mainly affected the
merchants, but the Stamp Act affected
all colonists.
Colonists believed they were being
taxed unfairly because they had no
voice in Parliament.
Stamp Act
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Placed a tax
on all legal
and
commercial
documents
The Colonies Protest the
Stamp Act
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Colonists protested taxations without
representation.
The Stamp Act Congress met in New
York City where they wrote a petition to
the king to protest the Act.
Merchants called for a boycott of British
goods and formed secret groups to
protest British policies.
Colonial Reactions:
Boycott: A refusal to buy
goods; non-violent and most
effective form of protest
Stamp Act Congress: a
petition was drawn up and
sent to the King claiming
colonial assemblies had the
right to tax
Sons of Liberty
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A group of colonists who formed a
secret society to oppose British policies
at the time of the American Revolution
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Lawyers
Merchants
Craftspeople
Sons of Liberty: secret society that
staged both violent and non-violent
protests…
(Samuel Adams was the leader of the
Boston Sons of Liberty)
•Tar and feathering
•“No taxation without
representation”
•Burned the stamped paper
•Attacked customs officials
Bostonians Paying
the Taxman
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4.
Liberty Tree as a
gallows
Stamp Act posted
upside down
Protestors in Boston
Customs official
tarred and feathered
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Parliament finally realized that the
Stamp Act was a mistake and repealed
the law in 1766.
Parliament then passed the Declaratory
Act stating that Parliament had the right
to govern and tax the colonies.
Parliament still needed money!
Townshend Acts
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The act established a board of customs
collectors in Boston. The money
collected from these import taxes was
used to pay the salaries of the British
colonial officials.
Writs of Assistance
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Search warrants to enter homes or
businesses to search for smuggled
goods used by the British to enforce the
acts
The Boston
Massacre
Paul Revere’s
Propaganda
The Boston Tea Party
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Most popular protest of the Tea Act
The Point – protesting taxation without
representation
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The Intolerable Acts
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A series of laws enacted by Parliament
to punish Massachusetts colonists for
the Boston Tea Party
The Intolerable Acts
•closed the port of Boston
•banned committees
of correspondence
•house troops wherever necessary
Patriots
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those who sided with the rebels
Loyalists
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Those who supported the British
Loyalists believe Bostonians have
gone too far
Letter from First Continental Congress
to King George III
•banned trade with England
•begin training troops
•NOT ready to declare independence
Lexington and Concord
British consider sending in more troops to
stop rebellion and look for stored weapons
and leaders
Paul Revere,
William Dawes and
Samuel Prescott warn
colonists that the
British are coming
Paul Revere
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The Ride…watch the video!
Lexington and Concord
The American militia, warned of the British
approach by the patriot Paul Revere and others,
had assembled to halt the British. Inspired by the
words of Captain Parker: “Stand your ground;
don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to
have a war, let it begin here,” the Americans
refused to disperse when ordered to do so by the
commander of the British advance units. Gunfire
was exchanged and eight Americans were killed
before the minutemen retreated.
Out to destroy colonial stores of gunpowder and arms,
British troops under General Thomas Gage set out for
Concord, Massachusetts, on April 19, 1775. They met a
force of minutemen in Lexington. It is unknown who fired
the first shot, but the two sides exchanged gunfire. With
this exchange, the American Revolution had begun.
Additional Vocabulary
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Prohibit – to prevent or forbid
Revenue – income/money from taxes or
other sources
Boycott – refusing to buy items in order
to show disapproval of policy
Repeal – to cancel or do away with
Rebellion – open defiance of authority