Warm-Up:

Looking at the picture on the left, write

a 5-10 sentence

story about what

happened. Use clues from the picture to

help create your

educated guess.

Remember that the British

soldiers wore red coats.

Pg. 20 of your ISNTitle: Boston Massacre

Turmoil Over

Taxation

Ch. 5, Sect. 2

Pontiac’s War breaks out in the Ohio River Valley.

British lose ground and forts, but they are quickly regained.

The Native Americans are led by Ottawa Chief Pontiac, who had fought with the French during the war.

In April 1763, Pontiac spoke out against the British, calling them dogs and saying that they had come to take their hunting grounds.

An English trader said that he commanded more respect than any other Native American.

Chief Pontiac

Fierce fighting occurs between the British soldiers and the Native Americans.

Proclamation of 1763 prevents settling west of the Appalachian Mts., with troops set up along this line. Setting up troops and colonists to enforce the proclamation costs $$$

PM George Grenville says that colonists should help pay the costs.

Sugar Act (1764) places a tax on molasses.

Stamp Act (1765) taxes all legal and written documents.

Location for British stamp.

Examples of British stamps.

Colonists protest the Stamp Act as “taxation without representation” - Parliament has no right to tax colonists. The petition sent to Parliament is ignored, but they do stage a successful boycott of British goods. The Stamp Act is repealed in 1766.

You have 60 seconds to discuss what we covered in the notes.

• Who is fighting in the Ohio River Valley?

• What is created in 1763, after the war?

• Who did Prime Minister Grenville decide should pay for the costs?

• What two acts were passed to help pay?

• What did the colonists think of these acts?

Townshend Acts are passed in 1767, which taxed goods like glass, paper, paint, lead and tea. Colonists are upset because another tax is passed without their consent. Writs of assistance created to inspect ship’s cargo without reason - colonists say this violates their rights. Colonists boycott goods taxed by the Townshend Acts to try to get them repealed. Treasury official Townshend

The angry colonists form the Sons and Daughters of Liberty to help organize protests.

Flag had 9 vertical stripes, rumored to represent the 9 colonies that were against the Stamp Act.

New colonial leaders begin to emerge, both male and female.

Samuel AdamsMercy Otis WarrenAnti-BritishPlaywright

Abigail and John Adams

Lawyer and future founding father of the U.S.A. & his activist wife

Sons of Liberty leader- John Adam’s cousin

Patrick HenryInfluential Speaker-

“Treason! If this be treason, make the most of it!”

George WashingtonRepresentative in the

Virginia House of Burgess

Thomas Jefferson22 year old lawyer

Boston Massacre: Name given to clash between British soldiers and colonists, that kills 5 colonists - March 1770. John Adams defends soldiers in court to show the British, and the world, that colonists believe in justice.

1st victims of the Revolutionary War:

Samuel Maverick- 17th year old

Cripus Attucks- African American Sailor

King George III After the Boston Massacre, Sam Adams decides to form a committee of correspondence in every colony, to write letters as a major form of protest, to keep further senseless deaths from occurring. Most of the Townshend Acts and the Quartering (housing British soldiers) Act are repealed in 1770.King George keeps the tax on tea, which would prove to be a mistake later on.