1. From Protest to Revolution Crisis in the Colonies, 1745–1775
The American Nation
Chapter 5 – Section 3
From Protest to Revolution
Crisis in the Colonies, 1745–1775
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2. From Protest to Revolution
Chapter 5, Section 3
Objectives to learn:
How did a dispute over tea lead to tension between the colonists and the British government?
How did Parliament strike back at the people of Boston?
Why did fighting break out at Lexington and Concord?

3. How did a dispute over tea lead to tension between the Colonists and the British government?
Chapter 5, Section 3
Who was involved?
The British East India Company sold tea to colonial tea merchants.
The colonial tea merchants sold the tea to the colonists for a higher price.
What happened?
When the British East India Company had money troubles, Parliament passed the Tea Act of The act said British East India Company could sell directly to colonists.
Why it was a problem?
American merchants protested being cut out of the tea trade.
Other colonists said it was a trick to force colonists to pay the tax on tea.
How did the colonists react to the tea tax?
Colonists boycotted tea.
The Boston Sons of Liberty showed their displeasure by staging the Boston Tea Party in November Disguised as Indians, they raided 3 ships and dumped their cargo of tea into Boston harbor.

4. Onlevel: Sam Adams’ Tea Party
Read “Sam Adams’ Tea Party”
Summarize how the Boston Tea Party occurred

5. Honors: The Boston Tea Party
Read “Sam Adams’ Tea Party
Summarize “Sam Adams’ Tea Party” and explain how the Boston Tea Party occurred
Read “The Boston Tea Party”
Answers questions #1-4.

6. The Boston Tea Party
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7. The Boston Tea Party

8. The Boston Tea Party

9. How did Parliament strike back at the people of Boston for the Boston Tea Party?
Chapter 5, Section 3
Intolerable Acts of 1774—passed to punish Massachusetts
1. The port of Boston was closed.
2. Massachusetts colonists could not hold town meetings more than once a year without the governor’s permission.
3. Customs officers and other officials could be tried in Britain or Canada instead of in Massachusetts.
4. A new Quartering Act said colonists must house British soldiers in their homes.

10. The Intolerable Acts

11. Steps to Lexington and Concord After the Intolerable Acts
Chapter 5, Section 3
Who or What
Quebec Act
(5th Intolerable Act)
What Happened
Parliament set up a government for Canada.
Results
Angered colonists because it included the land between the Ohio and Missouri rivers as part of Canada, which the English colonists claimed.
First Continental Congress
Delegates from 12 colonies gathered in Philadelphia.
Agreed to boycott all British goods and to stop exporting goods to Britain.
Urged each colony to set up a militia, which is an army of citizens who serve as soldiers in an emergency.
Agreed to meet again the next year in May 1775
Minuteman
A volunteer prepared to resist the British in “a minute’s notice.”
British heard that the minutemen had arms stored near Boston.
Lexington (April 18, 1775)
Village near Boston. Minutemen met British soldiers under General Thomas Gates on the village green.
Shots rang out. 8 colonists were killed.
(Commander of colonists was Captain John Parker)
(Paul Revere carried the message that the “redcoats were coming!”
Concord
Town near Boston. Minutemen met British soldiers on Concord bridge.
Colonists forced the British to retreat to Boston where they faced fire from the woods and fields along the way. With the battles at Lexington and Concord, war had begun.

12. Onlevel: The Shots Heard Round the World
Read “The Shots Heard Round the World”
Answer:
What happened?
Why are the Battles of Lexington and Concord known as the “shots heard round the world”?

13. Honors: “The British Are Coming”
Read “Paul Revere, the Patriot”
Answer questions #1-3
Read “The Battle of Lexington”
Answer questions #1-4

14. The First Continental Congress

15. The First Continental Congress

16. Paul Revere’s Ride and the Battle of Lexington and Concord
Paul Revere’s House in Boston

17. Battle of Lexington and Concord

18. Onlevel/Honors: Causes of the American Revolution
Read “Causes of the American Revolution”
Answer:
Comprehension Question at the end of the reading
What were the causes of the American Revolution?

19. Exit Ticket
Crises like the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, and Intolerable Acts ultimately led to the outbreak of fighting at:
A. Saratoga
B. Lexington and Concord
C. Yorktown
D. Bunker and Breed’s Hill

20. Section 3 Assessment Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to
Chapter 5, Section 3
Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to
a) collect taxes on tea.
b) punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
c) separate French Canadians from English colonists.
d) protest against unfair laws.
When British troops marched on Lexington and Concord, they
a) found a store of weapons and gunpowder.
b) shouted “The redcoats are coming!”
c) surprised the colonists.
d) clashed with armed minutemen.
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21. Section 3 Assessment Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to
Chapter 5, Section 3
Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts to
a) collect taxes on tea.
b) punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.
c) separate French Canadians from English colonists.
d) protest against unfair laws.
When British troops marched on Lexington and Concord, they
a) found a store of weapons and gunpowder.
b) shouted “The redcoats are coming!”
c) surprised the colonists.
d) clashed with armed minutemen.
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22. History Channel – The American Revolution
Conflict Ignites – DVD 1 – Episode 1
1st 24 Hours (10:18)
Paul Revere’s Ride
Battle of Lexington and Concord
Boston: Seeds of Revolt (9:50)
No Taxation without Representation
Boston Tea Party
Intolerable Acts
The Oldest Revolutionary (14:47)
Patrick Henry
American Revolution was a Civil War
Ben Franklin
British occupation of Boston
Battle of Bunker Hill