1. FROM PROTEST TO REVOLUTION Ch. 5 section 3

2. A DISPUTE OVER TEA British East India Company sold tea to merchants The tea merchants then sold the tea to colonists for a higher price. (Its called good business)

3. Parliament Passes the Tea Act The British East India Company began to have money troubles so Parliament decides to pass the Tea Act, which said that the British East India Company could sell tea directly to the colonists! (who might this affect?)

4. Parliament Passes the Tea Act American (colonial) merchans began to protest against this because they were being cut out of the tea trade. Even some colonists were upset about this because they saw it as a trick to force them to pay the tax on tea. Colonists decided to boycott tea!

5. Boston Tea Party The Boston Sons of Liberty kept the British East India Company fro unloading cargoes of tea in the Harbor. They then started to plan the staging of the Boston Tea Party They disguised themselves as Indians and raided three ships and dumped the cargo of tea in Boston Harbor.

6. Parliament Punished Massachusetts Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to punish Massachusetts.  The port of Boston was closed.  Massachusetts colonists could not hold town meetings more than once a year without the governor’s permission.  Customs officers & other officials could be tried in Britain or Canada instead of Mass.  A new Quartering Act said colonists must house British soldiers in their homes.

7. Quebec Act Parliament set up a government for Canada and gave complete religious freedom to French Catholics.  This angered colonists because it included the land between Ohio and Missouri rivers as part of Canada, which the English colonists claimed.

8. Other Colonies Support Boston The 1 st Continental Congress agreed to boycott all British goods and stop exporting goods to Britain. Urged each colony to set up a militia, an army of citizens who serve as soldiers in an emergency.

9. Lexington and Concord Colonists are preparing to resists the British by having minutemen, or volunteers who are prepared to resist the British as a minutes notice, train regularly. Minutemen collected weapons and gunpowder. The British got word of these arms near Boston.

10. Battle of Lexington 700 British troops leave Boston at night to seize colonial arms at Concord. Colonists saw them and signaled by hanging lamps in the Old North Church. Paul Revere rode toward Concord warning that “THE REDCOATS ARE COMING!”

11. Battle of Lexington 70 minutemen, led by Captain John Parker, awaited the British at Lexington. “Stand your ground, men. Don’t fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, then let it begin here!” –Captain John Parker The British ordered the minutemen to go home. Outnumbered, the colonists began to leave. Suddenly, a shot range out through the chill morning air.

12. “Shot Heard Round the World” fired there. Brief fight, 8 colonists were killed. British moved toward Concord

13. Battle of Concord British met 300 minutemen near Concord. Fighting breaks out. British were forced to retreat. 73 British killed, another 200 were wounded or missing. Fighting begins the American Revolution.