1. At the end of this lesson your notes will be collected for a grade.
Reminder: Follow the ROAR Expectations to earn prizes

2. Colonial Resistance Grows

3. 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?

4. Concept #2: Political Structure Lesson Essential Questions:
What influenced the development of democracy in the colonies?
How did relations between the colonists & the British change after the French & Indian War?

5. Warm-Up
Answer each question. Your response should be at least 5 sentences. You have 7 minutes.
Share back for Table Points!!
Think about policies either in your home or community that you considered unjust (unfair). What did you do to protest? Did your protest achieve anything? Why or why not?

6. Main Idea: From 1763 to 1776, American colonists changed from loyal subjects of the British king to revolutionaries.
Why It Matters Now: Colonial protests were the first steps on the road to American Independence from Great Britain.

7. Crash Course
Stop at 3:40

8. Taxing Continues
After the uproar over the Stamp Act, Britain hoped to avoid further conflict. Even so, it still needed to raise money to pay for troops & other expenses in America.

9. The Townshend Acts Are Passed
The Quartering Act was not working. Most of the British army was in NY, and NY saw that as an unfair burden. Its assembly refused to pay to house the troops.
The King’s finance minister, Charles Townshend, told Parliament that he had a way to raise revenue in the colonies. In 1767, Parliament passed his plan, known as the Townshend Acts.

10. Townshend Acts:
Suspended New York’s assembly until New Yorkers agreed to provide housing for the troops.
Placed import taxes on various goods brought into the colonies (glass, paper, paint, lead, & tea)
The money raised would be used to pay the salaries of British governors & other officials in the colonies

11. Writs Of Assistance
To enforce the Townshend Acts, British officers would use wits of assistance, or search warrants, to enter homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods.

12. The Reasons for Protest
Protests immediately broke out at news of the Townshend Acts. New Yorkers were angry that their elected assembly had been suspended.
People throughout the colonies were upset that Britain was placing new taxes on them and the writs of assistance.

13. Away—that taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.”
Read the following excerpt..
John Dickinson, an important Pennsylvania lawyer, explained his opposition to
The Townshend Acts:
“Let these truths be…impressed on our minds—that we cannot be happy without
being free—that we cannot be free without being secure in our property—that
We cannot be secure in our property if without our consent others may take it
Away—that taxes imposed on us by Parliament do thus take it away.”

14. Think-Pair-Share Check Point **Do NOT use your notes to answer**
Your table can answer for basket shots!!
*Make sure you follow the steps on the
Think-Pair-Share Poster
Why does Dickinson believe that taxes interfere with happiness?

15. Check Point Answer
Dickinson says that happiness depends on freedom, which depends on security of property. Taxes imposed without consent take away that security and should be opposed.

16. Tools of Protest
To protest the Townshend Acts, colonists in Boston announced another boycott of British goods.
The driving force behind this protest was Samuel Adams, a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty.
The Sons of Liberty pressured shopkeepers not to sell imported goods.

17. Tools of Protest continued..
The Daughters of Liberty called on colonists to weave their own cloth and use American products.
As a result, trade with Britain fell sharply.

18. Driven with Emotion
Colonial leaders asked for peaceful protests. Articles in the Boston Gazette asked the people to remain calm. However, tempers were running high.
When customs officers in Boston tried to seize the American merchant ship Liberty, which was carrying smuggled wine, a riot broke out. The rioters forced the customs officers to flee.

19. Tensions Rise
Fearing a loss of control, officials called for more British troops.
A defiant Samuel Adams replied, “We will destroy every soldier that dares put his feet on shore…I look upon them as foreign enemies.”
In the fall of 1768, 1,000 British soldiers arrived in Boston under the command of General Thomas Gage.
With their arrival, tension filled the streets of Boston.

20. The Boston Massacre
Resentment against the British soldiers grew. Soldiers and street youths often yelled insults at each other.
On March 5, 1770, tensions finally exploded into violence. A group of youths and dockworkers—among them Crispus Attucks—started trading insults in front of the Custom House. A fight broke out, and the soldiers began firing. Attucks and four laborers were killed.

21. Recognizing Propaganda
The Sons of Liberty called the shooting the Boston Massacre. They said that Attucks and the four others had given their lives for freedom.
(A massacre = a mass killing, often planned)

22. Think-Pair-Share Check Point
Your table can answer for basket shots!!
*Make sure you follow the steps on the
Think-Pair-Share Poster
How did the use of the word massacre show an anti-British view?

23. A massacre = a mass killing and often planned
Check Point Answer
A massacre = a mass killing and often planned
only 5 people were killed and this was not planned

24. Anti-British Propaganda
The incident became a tool for anti-British propaganda in newspaper articles, pamphlets, and posters. The people of Boston were outraged.
(Propaganda = information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view)

25. Trial
The redcoats (British soldiers) who had fired the shots were arrested for murder.
John Adams, a lawyer & cousin of Sam Adams, defended them in court.
Adams argued that the British soldiers had acted in self-defense. The jury agreed.
To many colonists, the Boston Massacre would stand as a symbol of British tyranny.

26. Boston Massacre Video

27. Boston Massacre Worksheet
You have 10 minutes to complete the Boston Massacre Worksheet
You may work in partners (5 mins partner #1 reads, 5 mins partner #2 reads with timer going)
DO NOT WRITE ON THE WORKSHEET
(LINED PAPER – BACK OF ROOM)
We will go over answers for BASKET SHOTS!!

28. How did the Boston Massacre begin? What was the outcome?
Exit Ticket for a grade
How did the Boston Massacre begin? What was the outcome?