19 november 2014 turn in your homework (5.3, periods 2, 7-9) do now: write a min of 3 lines, is it...

19 November 2014• Turn in your homework (5.3, periods 2, 7-9)• Do Now: Write a min of 3 lines, is it important for

you to have your voice heard when discussing things that may impact you? For example, your family decides to move.

• Today, I will understand and be able to explain what “No Taxation Without Representation.” I will be able to identify the impact that protest groups such as the Sons and Daughters of Liberty had on the Colonies.

Causes of the American Revolution

Proclamation of 1763*Drew an imaginary line along the Appalachian Mountains.*Colonists were not allowed to settle west of this line.*People that already lived there were supposed to move!!

Proclamation of 1763• Britain sent

troops to enforce the law.

• Why did this anger the colonists?

Proclamation of 1763

• Many colonists ignored the law.• Daniel Boone – explored Kentucky & led

settlers west.

Sugar Act - 1764• Taxed molasses. (What is Molasses??)• A good thing??• Replaced an earlier tax that was incredibly

high. Merchants smuggled molasses into the colonies to avoid paying the tax.

• Actually lowered the tax!• Why were Colonists angry??

Stamp Act - 1765• Taxed legal documents.

What’s this?? - wills, marriage papersTaxed newspapers,

almanacs, playing cards & dice.

Had to have a stamp to prove the tax had been paid.

Stamp Act - 1765

• Stamp Taxes were common in Britain so why were the Colonists so angry?

No Taxation Without Representation!

• Colonists insisted that only THEIR elected representatives could impose a tax on them.

• They had NO elected representative in Parliament (British Government) therefore they could NOT tax the Colonies!

Stamp Act Congress - 1765• 9 Colonies sent delegates.• Wrote a petition to King George

III which said they rejected the Stamp Act & that Britain had NO RIGHT to tax the Colonies.

• What is a petition??• Also decided to boycott all British

goods.

Townshend Acts - 1767

• Taxed glass, paper, paint, lead & TEA!!• Writs of Assistance – allowed the British

to search colonial ships to check for smuggled items.

• Many Colonists signed nonimportation agreements.What are these???

Quartering Act of 1767

• Citizens of Port cities like Boston and New York were expected to provide (room and board) to all British soldiers.

• Also, during this time Britain sent official tax collectors to enforce the recently approved Townshend Acts.

• Several regiments of soldiers are sent into these port cities to protect the “customs officials

Resentment continues to build in the colonies

How would you feel?

Boston Massacre - March 5, 1770• Britain had sent soldiers to Boston to protect customs officers.• A crowd gathered & started to shout at the soldiers -

“lobsterbacks” & started to throw snowballs & ice at the soldiers.

• 5 people were killed.• After this things calmed down - for a while!

This engraving was created by Paul Revere

Boston Massacre Fallout• John Adams (eventual 2nd POTUS) defends the

soldiers and has their sentence dramatically reduced.

• Samuel Adams (John’s 2nd cousin and active member of the S.O.L) expands his initial letter writing campaign…the committee of correspondence (information would be spread throughout the 13 colonies via letters…often discussing treasonous activities)

• Townshend Act will be REPEALED

Tea Act - 1773• Passed by Parliament to

help the British East India Company.

• Allowed the company to sell its tea directly to the Colonists.

• This made tea CHEAPER than ever before!!

• Why were the Colonists angry??

Tea Act - 1773• Colonists were angry because:• Tea Merchants had been cut out

of the tea trade.• Believed it was a trick to make

them accept Parliament’s right to tax the Colonies.

• No Taxation Without Representation!

Stop! It’s been poisoned

“Do not suffer yourself to sip the accursed, dutied STUFF. For if you do, the devil will immediately enter into you, and you will instantly become a traitor to your country”

Boston Tea Party – December 16, 1773

• Colonists boycott tea!• Creating a nation of coffee drinkers??• Colonists dresses as Native Americans

boarded ships in Boston Harbor & dumped the tea into the harbor.

At this point, British tax collectors are being regularly beaten, tarred/feathered by protesters

Intolerable Acts -17741. Parliament closed the port of Boston.2. Forbade Massachusetts to hold Town

Meetings more than once a year – had to have permission of the governor.

3. Any official charged with a crime had to be put on trial in Britain.

4. Quartering Act – Colonists had to house British troops!