Pre-AP Agenda (11/3 -7)

Monday

- Finish “Story of Us”

- Review places & battles of

the Revolution (8.4C)

Tuesday

- Review Causes of the

Revolution (Events

scramble- 8.4A)

Wednesday

- Unit 3 Performance

Assessment (4A)

Thursday

- Review Unit 3

Friday

- Unit 3 Assessment (1A;

4A,B,C; 10A; 19A; 20C)

This Week’s Agenda (11/3 -7)

Monday

- Causes of the Revolution

Scramble (8.4A)

Tuesday

- Review Causes of the

Revolution

Wednesday

- Unit 3 Performance

Assessment (4A)

Thursday

- Review the Revolution

Friday

- Unit 3 Assessment (1A;

4A,B,C; 10A; 19A; 20C)

This image first appeared in newspapers in

1754. What do you think the meaning is?

Albany Plan of Union- 1754 It doesn’t come together, but this is the first ideas of

forming a cooperative “union”

(think “the 13 colonies” vs. “13 colonies”

First note of George

Washington on the

pages of history, with

his attack and

assistance in capture

of the French Fort

Duquesne (pronounced

du-kane)

King George III gives

Proclamation of 1763

at the end of the war!

Answers to question from “History Alive” reading:

• Why had the colonies grown so rapidly? – cheap land, religious tolerance, self government,

economic opportunities

• How was colonial life even preferable in some ways to life in Europe at the time? – self government due to distance allowed for more

individual freedoms here than anywhere in Europe

• Why was the Proclamation of 1763 poorly received by the colonists? – settlers had already begun moving over the mountains

(because…)

– good land was already taken east of the mountains

Events Leading to the

Revolution

(All those acts and taxes)

The Sugar Act- 1764

• put a three-cent tax on foreign refined sugar

• also affected coffee, indigo, and certain wine

• banned importation of rum and French wines

• these taxes affected only a small (but very vocal) part of the population

• one of the first instances in which colonists were angered by not having a say in how much they were taxed

The Stamp Act- 1765

• required a stamp on every kind of legal paper

– official documents

– newspapers

– pamphlets

• first act/tax specifically aimed at the colonists

– (they respond with hostility and force!)

The Stamp Act Congress- 1765

• “No taxation without representation!”

• James Otis “taxation w/o…is tyranny”

– individual colonies have been ignored long enough

– calls for an intercolonial conference to voice their concerns • Stamp Act Resolves deliver message to Parliament

(along with protests and boycotts)

• First step in union among the colonies: realize they have more in common than previously thought!

The Townshend Acts- 1767

• series of laws taxing:

– Glass

– Lead

– Paper

– paint

• Met again with protests, again repealed by Parliament

Vocabulary: Repeal

in terms of a law, to revoke, annul, remove or reverse

Boston begins to brew

NOT LIKE THAT!!!

Nowhere was the tension higher than in Boston!!!

Why?

Patriots!!!

Patriot:

a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against

enemies or detractors

Boston begins to brew

1770- The Boston Massacre

Dozens of angry townspeople crowd the street outside the customs house (tax collector’s

office)

When reinforcements were called- they became angrier…

In the confusion- a soldier fires…

1770- The Boston Massacre 5 colonists dead, including Crispus Attucks, a former slave

Trials are held, but all of the accused get insignificant, or NO punishment!!

The Boston Massacre: Anonymous account of events

This party in proceeding from Exchange lane into King street, must pass the sentry posted at the westerly corner of the Custom House, which butts on that lane and fronts on that street. This is needful to be mentioned, as near that spot and in that street the bloody tragedy was acted, and the street actors in it were stationed: their station being but a few feet from the front side of the said Custom House. The outrageous behavior and the threats of the said party occasioned the ringing of the meeting-house bell near the head of King street, which bell ringing quick, as for fire, it presently brought out a number of inhabitants, who being soon sensible of the occasion of it, were naturally led to King street, where the said party had made a stop but a little while before, and where their stopping had drawn together a number of boys, round the sentry at the Custom House…

…whether the boys mistook the sentry for one of the said party, and thence took occasion to differ with him, or whether he first affronted them, which is affirmed in several depositions,-however that may be, there was much foul language between them, and some of them, in consequence of his pushing at them with his bayonet, threw snowballs at him, which occasioned him to knock hastily at the door of the Custom House. From hence two persons thereupon proceeded immediately to the main-guard, which was posted opposite to the State House, at a small distance, near the head of the said street. The officer on guard was Capt. Preston, who with seven or eight soldiers, with fire-arms and charged bayonets, issued from the guardhouse, and in great haste posted himself and his soldiers in front of the Custom House, near the corner aforesaid. – Anonymous, "An Account of the Boston Massacre," (1770)

COATS

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Burning of the HMS Gaspee- 1772

- A British schooner sent to enforce unpopular customs

- Gave chase and was stranded in shallows off the coast of RI

- Soldiers taken prisoner and the ship burned

The Tea Act/Boston Tea Party-1773 Read the passage “Excerpts from George Hewes Eyewitness Account” of the event and answer the questions on the next slide. This will be a grade!

The Tea Act/Boston Tea Party-1773 1. According to his biography, what position did George Hewes hold

within the Boston community?

2. How did Mr. Hewes describe his outfit while involved in the Boston Tea Party?

3. Describe the damage that the Patriots inflicted upon the three ships.

4. What was it like as the protestors left the ships? 5. Look at the Adventure Tales cartoon on the Boston Tea Party (pg. 124). List 3 differences that you see in the cartoon that was not in the above primary source.

The Tea Act/Boston Tea Party-1773 (Pre-AP)

Civil Disobedience is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as the, “refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government”.

• In which ways is the Boston Tea Party an example of Civil Disobedience?

• Compare and contrast the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party as examples of colonial protest. • In your opinion,

were the colonists justified in protesting the acts of Parliament following the French and Indian War?

Coercive/ Intolerable Acts- 1774

Coerce: to persuade an

unwilling person to do something by force or

threat

Collective name for 4 acts of Parliament

passed in 1774

Intolerable: unable to be endured,

unbearable, impossible to handle

Nickname given by colonists for the so-called coercive acts

Coercive/ Intolerable Acts- 1774 Boston Port Act

Closed Boston’s ports until

damages were paid and responsible parties

punished for Boston Tea Party

Quebec Act

Extended property claims for the province of Quebec in to the Ohio River Valley, cutting off colonial attempts

at expansion

Administration of Justice Act

Allowed for all trials of

soldiers and British officials to take place in Britain, not

the colonies

Massachusetts Government Act

Restructured the Mass. government to have less

local control

Also 1774- The Quartering Act (amended)

Allowed for the “quartering” of

British soldiers in colonial homes at the homeowners

expense

COATS- “Tarring and Feathering”

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