New British Laws/Taxes

Huge National Debt to pay off: 10,000 NOW

stationed in America

British thought Colonists should pay for the Protection

New British Laws/Taxes

Sugar Act: Sugar was used to

sweeten tea and create rum

Tax on Sugar to make money

Taxes = increase in price of

sugar and rum A Breach of English

Rights? “No Taxation

without Direct Representation”

New British Laws/Taxes

The Stamp Act – 1765 All official documents

required to have a stamp on it – a stamp that was paid for

Affected Middle Class Artisans &

merchants Literate and involved

Caused Major Demonstrations!

The Stamp Act Congress

October 1765: 9 colonies sent delegates to NYC Petitioned the King to Remove the Tax

The Colonial Boycott: Boycott of all British Goods Successful: Stamp Act repealed

Parliament Stated they had the RIGHT to tax

New British Laws/Taxes

New British Laws/Taxes

The Quartering Act: 1765: Colonists had

to provide living arrangements for British Soldiers

In their homes or barracks

Townshend Act:

1767: Taxed goods FROM GB Writs of Assistance:

Allowed GB to search homes for smuggled goods without a warrant

Right to privacy in ones home is cherished COLONISTS ANGRY!!! COLONISTS SMASH!!!

Act Repealed except for Tax on Tea!

New British Laws/Taxes

British troops in Boston were BIG RED

SYMBOLS of BRITISH RULE! Unskilled labor hated them:

British Troops 2nd Jobs Would take jobs from Colonists

Boston Massacre

March 1770:

Mob formed outside customs house Mob threw snowballs at the Guards outside Someone yelled “fire” and the British soldiers

fired into the crowd 5 people died Sons of Liberty played up the attack Historical Bias? Paul Revere’s Engraving

Boston Massacre

Soldiers on Trial for Murder

Defended by John Adams All soldiers released except for 2

Served Light sentences

British soldiers were removed from Boston to the countryside

Boston Massacre

The Boston Tea Party

Dec 16,1773: 3 east India tea

ships in Boston Harbor

Samuel Adams +70 Sons of Liberty boarded the ships and sent $1 million in tea overboard

Hundreds watched

1774: Parliament response to Tea Party

Closed Port of Boston GB brought in more troops and strict Gov. until

tea was repaid

Sons of Liberty renamed it “Intolerable Acts” Historical Bias?

The Coercive Acts

Intolerable Acts further unified the Colonists 1774: First Continental Congress met in Philly

1. Agreed parliament had too much control3. Agreed to a non-importation Agreement4. “Minutemen” formed

King George III wants Mass. Under Control!Tells Gen. Thomas Gage to handle it!

First Continental Congress

Hostilities Begin

April 18, 1775- 700 British Troops to

Concord Mass. Secure Colonial

Supplies and arrest Leaders

Spreading the Alarm: Paul Revere and 20+

riders inform the Minute Men in Mass.

Lexington:

70 Minutemen met at Lexington to stop the British

70 Colonists vs. 700 British “Shot Heard ‘round the World” 8 Colonial Casualties – Colonists lose

The British continued on the Concord

OPEN CONFLICT HAS BEGUN!

Hostilities Begin

Concord:

Hundreds of Minutemen there Concord supplies/ leaders moved Both sides exchanged shots The British retreated back to Boston

Militiamen fired on Redcoats all the way back to Boston

Surrounded British in Boston

Hostilities Begin

Battle of Two Styles of Protest!!COUSIN vs. COUSIN! LETS DO THIS!

John Adams vs. Samuel Adams

John Adams

Born in 1735 Father

Involved in Politics Puritan Deacon

Adams family was on the Mayflower Rise to Prominence:

Stamp Act of 1765 Wrote and Published on Enlightenment ideas and

Stamp Act legality Wrote “Braintree Instructions” in defense of

colonial rights against Parliament aggression Defended the 8 British soldiers of the Boston

Massacre – And Won

Philosophy: Enlightened Thinker Believer in Republican Government

“Rule by People AND by LAW” Huge supporter of the RULE OF LAW Law and Facts do not change – men do Supporter of Bicameral Legislature and

Separation of Powers THE PATRIOT BY PEN!

John Adams

Trial of the Boston massacre soldiers in “John Adams”

Samuel Adams

Born 1722 Family leading figure in local Politics

Mass. House of Reps. 1748: Began a local Newspaper that criticized

British Rule Became a very popular man among the common

people Involved in Sugar Act Protest

1748:

Began a local Newspaper Criticized British Rule

Became a very popular man among the common people

Sugar Act Protest Involved in Protest – led many

1765: Helped Found the “Sons of Liberty” of Boston Group of Middle class Boston residents who

opposed British Authority

Sam Adams

Tactics:

Boycotts Effigy Burnings Mob Intimidation Tar and Feather 1773: Boston Tea Party

SAM ADAMS: LEADER OF THE SONS – THE PATRIOT’S MUSKET

Tar and Feather example from “John Adams”

Sons of Liberty