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1 Date 8-22-16 Today’s Materials: 5.4 Notes 5.5 Notes History Notebook
Class Starter: On your desk at the start of class should be: 5.4 Notes 5.5 Notes history notebook Today’s Materials: 5.4 Notes 5.5 Notes History Notebook Standards: Students will interact with colonists viewpoints prior to the Revolution regarding the Townshend Acts and the Boston Massacre

2 The Townshend Acts and the Boston Massacre

3 Townshend Acts Why? Solution? Colonist bad behavior
Need to pay for standing army in colonies Solution? New tax on goods imported from Great Britain- glass, paint, paper, and tea!

4 Repeal of Townshend Acts
Colonists Response? Taxation without representation! Formed Sons of Liberty Boycotted taxed goods Women made alternatives to taxed goods Loyalist Defense The army is in colonies to maintain peace Colonists should do their part to support troops Repeal of Townshend Act After three years it was determined the tax was a money-loser All parts of the tax were repealed, except on tea

5 Boston Massacre Tensions between England and colonists high in Boston
March 5th 1770 Crowd threw rocks and ice at British soldiers British soldier opened fire 5 Bostonians killed

6 Responses to March 5th 1770 Colonists Response Loyalist Response
Patriots saw as opportunity to whip up anti-British sentiment  Paul Revere made engraving with bias Loyalist Response Saw it as proof that more British troops were needed Patriot lawyer John Adams came out a here for defending British soldiers in court


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