1. starter
Read the statement below and agree or disagree and explain why. In a democracy, individuals and groups have the right to use any means to protest taxes and laws that they think are unfair.

2. KWL Chart: Revolutionary War
K – What you Know about the Revolutionary War
W – What you want to know
L – What you have learned (to be filled out at a later time)

3. The Revolutionary War Begins

4. I. Tea Act British Taxed Tea
Sons of Liberty: group of colonists fighting British rule led by Sam Adams
“Taxation without representation”

5. A. Boston Tea Party Colonists dressed in Indian attire
Dumped 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
Colonists supported the rebels and they became heroes

6. B. Intolerable Acts Passed by Great Brit. To punish Boston
1) closed Boston port until tea was paid for
2) Not allowed to hold town meetings
3) Royal officials charged with crimes in Mass. could be tried in Great Britain
4) Tougher Quartering Act

7. II. Other Acts
Townshend Acts – Writs of assistance – officials could search home for smuggled goods w/o a search warrant
Quartering Acts
Tea Act
Intolerable Act
Quebec Act

8. Starter:
When you hear the word Massacre, what images come to your mind?

9. III. Colonial Response

10. A. Boston Massacre
Colonists were throwing snowballs at groups of British soldiers
Riot followed
Soldiers fired into the crowd killing 5
Soldiers got off with a light sentence
Committees of Correspondence – spread the news of British injustices

12. B. First Continental Congress
Discuss their problems with the king
NOT a lawmaking body
Declaration of Resolves – loyalty to Britain but colonists were British subjects as well
Formed the Minutemen – colonial soldiers

13. Lexington and Concord
British General Gage wanted military supplies in Concord
Patriots were prepared
Paul Revere
William Dawes
Samuel Prescott

14. Lexington Concord 70 minutemen were prepared
British and colonist met in Lexington
“The Shot Heard Round the World”
British went there for military supplies
100s of minutemen
British retreated
British lost

16. Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill look at the statistics below
British troops – 2,200 Am. Troops-3,200
G.B. losses Am losses- 441
Calculate the percentage of losses from the total number of troops
The British general said it was a “dear bought victory” In 2 to 3 sentences tell me what he meant by this.

17. Battle for Boston
Bunker Hill and Breeds Hill – looked over Boston Harbor
British took both hills but had 1054 deaths compared to 450 American

21. Declaring Independence
Section 2

22. I. 2nd Continental Congress
Attitudes still mixed on Loyalty to the crown
Estab. Continental Army
George Washington General

23. II. Olive Branch Petition
Colonist loyal to King George III and wanted to end the conflict
King rejected
King sent Hessian mercenaries – Hired soldiers from Germany to defeat Americans

25. Declaration of Independence

26. III. The People

27. A. Patrick Henry “Give me Liberty or Give me death”
In both Continental Congresses
Speaker in favor of Revolution

28. B. Thomas Paine
Wrote Common Sense – pamphlet asking for support for Revolution
Helped organize a mob into a movement

29. IV. Declaration of Independence
Written by Thomas Jefferson
July 4 officially adopted the D.O.I.
Purpose: To gather support for Independence, and state King George’s Wrong doings

30. A. Reaction to Independence
Patriots: singing and rejoicing
Loyalists (Tories) : those loyal to England, scared and opposed the Declaration
Women: A hope for more political opportunity (Abigail Adams)

31. Review Who were the minutemen? What did the Quartering Act say?
What happened during the Boston Tea Party?
What did British do after the party?
Who wrote the D.O.I.?
Who wrote Common Sense?