1. Reminder..
If you’re seen following the ROAR expectations throughout the lesson you can earn...
Tiger Dollars $
Basket Shots
Table Points
And…
BINGO for the entire class = ice cream, cookies, etc.

2. Unit One’s Focus:
Key Learning: The historical evidence supports the changing relationship between the colonists and the mother country.
Unit Essential Question: How does historical evidence support the change in the relationship between colonists and the mother country that occurred from early colonization to a declaration of independence?

3. Concept #2: Political Structure Lesson Essential Questions:
What influenced the development of democracy in the colonies?
Why were the colonists upset about the Stamp Act?

4. One person from each table can share for table points!!!
Warm-Up
What are some of the reasons people in history have chosen to fight for freedom from oppression? (Oppression = the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control)
You must use complete sentences.
You have 5 minutes.
One person from each table can share for table points!!!

5. Possible Answers
African Americans and Women fought for their right to vote
African Americans fought for their right to integrate schools
Frederick Douglass was a former slave who became committed to working for the emancipation (freedom) of all slaves
Martin Luther King fought segregation with his goal to achieve greater equality for people of all color.

6. Main Idea: Why It Matters Now:
Americans saw British efforts to tax them and to increase control over
the colonies as a violation of their rights. Americans felt oppressed.
Why It Matters Now:
Colonial protests were the first steps on the road to American
Independence from Great Britain.

7. The Colonies and Britain Grow Apart
During the French and Indian War, Britain and the colonies fought side by side. However, when the war ended, problems arose.
Britain wanted to govern its 13 original colonies and the territories gained in the war in a uniform way. So the British Parliament in London imposed new laws and restrictions.
Previously, the colonies had been allowed to develop largely on their own. Now they felt that their freedom was being limited.

8. The Proclamation of 1763
The first of Parliament’s laws was the Proclamation of 1763.
It said that colonists could not settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Britain wanted this land to remain in the hands of its Native American allies to prevent another revolt.

10. How the Colonists reacted..
The proclamation angered colonists who had hoped to move to the fertile Ohio Valley. Many of these colonists had no land of their own.
It also upset colonists who had bought land as an investment.
As a result, many ignored the law.

11. Check Point Who was upset by the Proclamation of 1763 and why?
Two tables share for table points.

12. The Quartering Act In 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act.
King George III, the British monarch, wanted to enforce the proclamation and also keep peace with Native American allies. To do this, he decided to keep 10,000 soldiers in the colonies.
In 1765, Parliament passed the Quartering Act.
This was a cost-saving measure that required the colonies to quarter, or house, British soldiers and provide them with supplies.

13. The Sugar Act
Britain owed a large debt from the French & Indian War. Britain needed more revenue, or income, to meet its expenses. So it attempted to have the colonies pay part of the war debt.
In 1764, Parliament passed the Sugar Act. This law placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other products shipped to the colonies.
It also called for strict enforcement of the act and harsh punishment of smugglers (smugglers = importing goods illegally/secretively).

14. Tyranny
Colonial leaders such as James Otis claimed that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies, since the colonists were not represented in Parliament.
As Otis exclaimed, “Taxation without representation is tyranny!”
(Tyranny = absolute power in the hands of a single ruler)

15. The Stamp Act
In 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act. This law required all legal and commercial documents to carry an official stamp showing that a tax had been paid.
All diplomas, contracts, newspapers, and wills had to carry a stamp.
Colonial readers protested. They were being taxed without their consent by a Parliament in which they had no voice.

16. Why was the Stamp Act different from previous taxes?
The Sugar Act had been a tax on imported goods. It mainly affected merchants. In contrast, the Stamp Act was a tax applied within the colonies. It fell directly on all colonists.
Was viewed by the colonists as means of censorship
Infringed on the colonists’ rights to write & read freely

17. Stamp ACT Video
*Stop at 1:20

18. Looking at this political cartoon, how do you think the colonists felt
about being taxed?
What is being
depicted in this
picture?
3 students can answer
for basket shots!!

19. In this British political cartoon,
Americans are depicted as barbarians
who would tar and feather a customs
official, or tax collector, and pour hot
tea down his throat. (Tar & feather = smear with
tar and then cover with feathers as a
punishment.) *Tar caused third-degree burns.
The Liberty Tree was a rallying
point/meeting spot for the growing resistance to
the rule of England over the American
colonies.
You can infer from the hanging rope that they
are going to execute the tax collector.
The Stamp Act sign being hung upside down is a
sign of defiance.
America was so fed up with Britain that they’re
taking something that Britain loves (tea) &
throwing it away.

20. Exit Ticket *At least 5 sentences!!
How would you react if politicians collected taxes from you, but ignored your views and needs? Explain your actions and feelings.
Explain why the colonists were upset about the Stamp Act.

21. Document A: B.W.’s Public Letter (Modified) This public letter appeared on the front page of The Boston-Gazette and Country Journal, a colonial newspaper, on October 7, The author’s name was printed as “B.W.” _____________________________________________________________________________________________ To the Inhabitants of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay My Dear Countrymen, It is a standing maxim of English Liberty “That no man shall be taxed but with his own consent,” and you very well know we were not, in any sober sense, represented in parliament, when this tax was imposed. AWAKE! Awake, my Countrymen and defeat those who want to enslave us. Do not be cowards. You were born in Britain, the Land of Light, and you were raised in America, the Land of Liberty. It is your duty to fight this tax. Future generations will bless your efforts and honor the memory of the saviors of their country.

22. Document A
Sourcing
Contextualizing