1. TEST Friday – Review Sheet HW
IF you unable to take the test on Friday, make plans to take the test BEFORE you leave for vacation.
Take out your Liberty Kids HW (make sure name is on paper) – Collect HW
Today we are going to:
Review and complete discussion on Boston Massacre
Watch John Adams and courtroom scene
Boston Tea Party Note packets

2. Portrait of Crispus Attucks in Boston Massacre
Henry Pelham

3. Differences between Revere's and Pelham's Engravings
In Pelham's print, the moon in the top left-hand corner faces to the right, whereas it faces to the left in Revere's version.
Pelham's version shows eight columns in the cupola of the First Church, while Revere's print shows only seven.
Pelham includes a smoking chimney just to the right of the State House and also a slim steeple to its right, neither of which appear in Revere's version.
Lastly, Pelham's print includes a quote from the Ninety-fourth Psalm, while Revere's features an original eighteen-line poem.  (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1954)

4. Road To American Revolution

5. Document Analysis 3 Boston Massacre, 1770
What does propaganda mean?
Why isn’t this engraving a true depiction of what happened? List at least 3 inaccuracies with the engraving.
Why did Paul Revere misrepresent what happened?
How did Paul Revere stir up anti British sentiment among his fellow colonists?  
Why is this considered a milestone in America’s road to independence?
If you found the “sniper”, where is he located?

6. Boston Massacre, 1770
After reviewing events and engraving – being sure to discuss point of view and how events can be interpreted and were the soldiers justified in firing – then show John Adams video courtroom scenes 1 through 3 (you tube)

7. Hand out Note Packet to students Discuss cartoon on next slide
Today we are going to:
Hand out Note Packet to students
Discuss cartoon on next slide

9. Document Analysis 4 Boston Tea Party, 1773
What does “boycott” mean?
What event is taking place on the ships in the background?
Why are they doing this?
Who is being tarred and feathered?
What are they pouring into his mouth?
Who are the people committing the act?
What is this significance of the tree?
Why is the “Stamp Act” sign turned upside down on the tree?

10. Road To American Revolution
Tea
Tea Act 1773
CLICK & WATCH this video
British continue tax on tea
Parliament passes Tea Act to help British East India Company sell its tea (sole right to sell tea)
Eliminate the “middle man” (tea merchants) and colonist buy direct – tea will cost LESS than before
Colonists angry because this is trick by Parliament to make taxes acceptable
Tea merchants angry because cut out of trade
Boycott tea

11. I dressed myself in the costume of an Indian, equipped with a small hatchet and a club, after having painted my face and hands with coal dust in the shop of a blacksmith, I repaired to Griffin's wharf, where the ships lay that contained the tea...
We then were ordered by our commander to open the hatches and take out all the chests of tea and throw them overboard, and we immediately proceeded to execute his orders, first cutting and splitting the chests with our tomahawks, so as thoroughly to expose them to the effects of the water. In about three hours from the time we went on board, we had thus broken and thrown overboard every tea chest to be found in the ship, while those in the other ships were disposing of the tea in the same way, at the same time. We were surrounded by British armed ships, but no attempt was made to resist us.
– Anonymous, "Account of the Boston Tea Party by a Participant," (1773)
READ this PRIMARY Source to students
What is a PRIMARY source?

12. -Colonists see law as a way of hurting American merchants.
Tea Act (1773):
-British Parliament passes law which lowers the price of tea, but still leaves the tax on the tea.
-Colonists see law as a way of hurting American merchants.
-In several cities, the Sons of Liberty did things to protest this law. In Boston, the Sons of Liberty held the Boston Tea Party.

13. Boston Tea Party (1773):
Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians, boarded ships in Boston Harbor. They dumped crates of tea into harbor as a protest against Tea Act.

16. Road To American Revolution
Closes the Port of Boston to all colonists until damages from destroyed tea is paid
(2) Cancels the Charter of Massachusetts no more town meetings unless controlled by British Governor
(3) British officials tried in Britain not in colonies free reign to do as they pleased as no justice would be served while in colonies
The Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Punish the Colonists –
Mostly Massachusetts

17. Road To American Revolution
The Intolerable or Coercive Acts
Punish the Colonists
Liberty Kids
(4) Quartering Act updated – furnish barracks and supplies to British troops in public houses, occupied and unoccupied buildings
Governor of Massachusetts, Thomas Hutchinson, is replaced by General Thomas Gage (commander in chief of British forces in North America).
Why did the colonists call these acts “Intolerable?”
John Adams – Intolerable Acts video

18. Road To American Revolution
Colonists Respond
To Intolerable Acts
Read to class
Birth of America page 289
Militia
Committees of Correspondence spread the news
Other colonies support Boston by sending food
First Continental Congress – 1774 – delegates from 12 colonies (no Georgia) meet in Philadelphia
Agree to Boycott ALL British goods
Agree to stop exporting goods to Britain
Establish and train militia
Agree to meet again in 1775
Army of citizens serving as soldiers

19. B. First Continental Congress (1774): Representatives from colonies meet in Philadelphia to discuss their rights.
-Send petition to King to try to restore peace.
-Asked King to repeal the Intolerable Acts.
-Said they had the right to make colonial laws.
-Threatened to halt exports to Britain
-Organized a boycott of British goods.
-Parliament responded by adding new taxes to the colonies.
-Colonies form militias to prepare for war. Minutemen created to respond in case of attack.

21. Document Analysis 5 Bostonians in Distress, 1774
Who is in the cage?
 Colonists of Boston
What is the cage hanging from?
Liberty Tree
What are the men in the boat doing?
Providing food to these men (fish) Boston Harbor is closed
Who do these men in the boat represent?
Colonists from other colonies trying to help
What do the British ships symbolize?
Power - strength
VIEWPOINT:
How would a patriot view this cartoon?  
How would a loyalist view this cartoon?

22. Road To American Revolution
Lexington & Concord
April 19, 1775
Parliament had declared Massachusetts to be in a state of rebellion – soldiers permitted to shoot suspected rebels on sight.
Thomas Gage receives secret orders to:
arrest ringleaders of colonial unrest
destroy military stock at Concord
At dawn on April 19th troops reach Lexington
First shots fired
Troops continue on to Concord
Battle at the Concord North Bridge
British retreat to Boston
273 British soldiers killed or wounded
95 Colonists’ killed or wounded

23. Road To American Revolution
Lexington & Concord
April 19, 1775
Patriots' Day
Boston Marathon
The FIRST BATTLE of the American Revolution
Patriots' Day =
Massachusetts State holiday  = honors the memory and meaning of the first battle of the American Revolution
Patriots' Day holiday is celebrated in many ways ONE of which is the Boston Marathon (sometimes called the Patriots' Day Race).