Monday, October 19 Today begins a new nine weeks! Create habits that lead to success! Students will view and discuss a powerpoint of the Causes of the American Revolution. Students will correct causes notes from last week. Please get a RED pen. 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 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 Proclamation of 1763 increases tension 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 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

Sugar Act Placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies

Britain Passes the Stamp Act 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 Placed a tax on all legal and commercial documents

The Colonies Protest the Stamp Act 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 A group of colonists who formed a secret society to oppose British policies at the time of the American Revolution 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 1. Liberty Tree as a gallows 2. Stamp Act posted upside down 3. Protestors in Boston 4. Customs official tarred and feathered

Parliament finally realized that the Stamp Act was a mistake and repealed the law in Parliament then passed the Declaratory Act stating that Parliament had the right to govern and tax the colonies. Parliament still needed money!

Townshend Acts 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 Search warrants to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods used by the British to enforce the acts

Paul Revere’s Propaganda The Boston Massacre

The Boston Tea Party Most popular protest of the Tea Act The Point – protesting taxation without representation

The Intolerable Acts 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 those who sided with the rebels

Loyalists 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 The Ride…watch the video!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, 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 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