1. STIRRINGS OF REBELLION
CHAPTER 4, SECTION 1

2. Ojectives
Summarize colonial resistance to British attempts at Taxation
To trace the mounting tension in Massachusetts
To describe how fighting broke out at Concord

3. VOCABULARY STAMP ACT SAMUEL ADAMS TOWNSHEND ACTS BOSTON MASSACRE
COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE
BOSTON TEA PARTY
KING GEORGE III
INTOLERABLE ACTS
MARTIAL LAW

4. TIMELINE 1765: THE STAMP ACT 1767: THE TOWNSHEND ACTS
1770: THE BOSTON MASSACRE
1773: THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
1774: THE INTOLERABLE ACTS
APRIL, 1775: “BATTLES” OF…
LEXINGTON
CONCORD

5. ANGLO-AMERICAN TENSION
BRITISH PROBLEM:
FRENCH & INDIAN WAR = HEAVY DEBT
SO… BRITS. NEED TO PAY OFF DEBT
SOLUTION? MORE TAXES
EXAMPLE? 1765: THE STAMP ACT
THE STAMP ACT: DID WHAT?
ALL PAPER DOCUMENTS HAD TO HAVE A BRITISH GOV’T. SEAL.
LIKE WHAT?
LEGAL DOCUMENTS
NEWSPAPERS
DIPLOMAS
PLAYING CARDS
LICENSES
SO WHAT? STAMP ACT AFFECTED ALL AMERICAN COLONISTS
HOW? ALL COLONISTS HAD TO PAY FOR OFFICIAL SEAL; LOSE $
PROBLEM? YES – COLONISTS THINK TAX IS UNFAIR

7. STAMP ACT PROTESTS AMERICAN COLONISTS BEGIN TO PROTEST THE STAMP ACT
HOW? DIFFERENT WAYS
EXAMPLES?
SAMUEL ADAMS FOUNDS “THE SONS OF LIBERTY”
DEFINE:
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS MEET IN NEW YORK CITY TO WRITE OFFICIAL PROTEST OF STAMP ACT
THIS GROUP = THE STAMP ACT CONGRESS
THEIR PROTEST DOCUMENT= THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS & GRIEVANCES
SAID WHAT?
PARLIAMENT COULDN’T LEGALLY PASS THE STAMP ACT BECAUSE THE COLONISTS WEREN’T REPRESENTED IN PARLIAMENT

8. SAMUEL ADAMS

10. THE STAMP ACT, 1765

11. STAMP ACT PROTESTS (CONT’D.)
EXAMPLES OF PROTEST (CONT’D.):
BOYCOTT ON BRITISH GOODS
WHO? COLONIAL MERCHANTS / TRADERS
WHERE?
NEW YORK
BOSTON
PHILADELPHIA
SO WHAT?
BRITS. DEPENDED ON MERCANTILISM
BRITS. SOLD 40% OF THEIR MANUFACTURED GOODS TO AMERICAN COLONIES
NO TRADE = NO MERCANTILISM = NO ECONOMY
RESULT? MARCH, 1766: BRITS. REPEAL STAMP ACT

14. THE TOWNSHEND ACTS BRITS. STILL NEED TO PAY OFF F&I WAR DEBT
NEW IDEA: TAX SOMETHING ELSE
RESULT? 1767: THE TOWNSHEND ACTS
DID WHAT?
TAXED IMPORTS: LEAD, GLASS, PAINT, PAPER
TAX ON TEA
SO WHAT? SAME PROBLEM
COLONISTS THINK TAX IS UNFAIR
WHY? NO COLONIAL REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT
“NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”
TENSION KEEPS RISING IN THE COLONIES

15. RISING TENSIONS ANGLO-AMERICAN TENSION WORSENS WHY? BRITISH TAXES
BRITS. STATION MORE TROOPS IN AMERICA
Ex. = 4000 in BOSTON
MARCH 5, 1770: THE BOSTON MASSACRE
WHY?
PROTEST IN BOSTON OVER TAXES
CROWD GATHERS AT BOSTON CUSTOMSHOUSE
CONFRONTATION TURNS VIOLENT, THEN DEADLY
5 COLONISTS KILLED BY BRIT. SOLDIERS

16. Boston Massacre

21. RISING TENSIONS (CONT’D.)
1772: PARLIAMENT REPEALS THE TOWNSHEND ACTS
NEW PROBLEM? SMUGGLING / BLACK MARKET EXPANDS
BRITS. ORDER NAVY TO TARGET SMUGG-
LERS
AMERICANS BECOME MORE ORGANIZED AS
PROTEST GROWS
HOW? COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE

22. BOSTON TEA PARTY WHEN? 1773 WHERE? BOSTON HARBOR
WHO? THE SONS OF LIBERTY
WHY?
1773: THE TEA ACT
DEFINE: BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY EXEMPT FROM TAXES COLONIAL MERCHANTS / BUSINESSES HAD TO PAY
WHY? MANY MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT WERE ON THE BOARD OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY
SO WHAT?
COLONIAL MERCHANTS LOSE $
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY WILL DOMINATE TEA TRADE
WHAT HAPPENS?
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
SONS OF LIBERTY, ETC. (DISGUISED AS INDIANS) RAID TEA SHIPS IN BOSTON HARBOR
15,000 LBS. OF TEA DUMPED INTO HARBOR

23. THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

24. SONS OF LIBERTY AT THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

25. THE INTOLERABLE ACTS KING GEORGE III = FURIOUS WHY? BOSTON TEA PARTY
RESULT?
KING URGES PARLIAMENT TO RESPOND
1774: INTOLERABLE ACTS PASSED
INTOLERABLE ACTS: DID WHAT?
3 ACTS COMBINED INTO ONE:
BOSTON PORT ACT: BOSTON HARBOR CLOSED
QUEBEC ACT: FRENCH CANADIANS HAVE TAXES REDUCED
QUARTERING ACT: BRIT. SOLDIERS COULD BE HOUSED IN VACANT PRIVATE HOMES / BUILDINGS
ALSO: BOSTON PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW

26. KING GEORGE III

28. THE 1st CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
WHEN? SEPTEMBER, 1774
WHERE? PHILADELPHIA
WHO?
56 COLONIAL GOV’T. REPRESENTATIVES FROM DIFFERENT COLONIES
ORGANIZED BY COMMITTESS OF CORRESPONDENCE
WHY?
TO WRITE AN OUTLINE OF COLONIAL RIGHTS
TO DECIDE IF THE COLONIES HAD THE RIGHT TO USE FORCE AGAINST BRITS.
THEY DECIDED FORCE WOULD BE JUSTIFIED, IF BRITS. BECAME MORE VIOLENT

29. TENSION GROWS COLONIALS ACCELERATE MILITARY PLANS HOW? WHERE? SO WHAT?
MILITIA GROUPS, “MINUTEMEN”, GAIN MEMBERS
MILITIAS STOCKPILE MORE WEAPONS
WHERE?
MOSTLY IN NEW ENGLAND, esp. MASS.
SO WHAT?
APRIL 19, 1775
GEN. GAGE SENDS 700 TROOPS TO CONCORD
WHY? TO SEIZE WEAPONS
RESPONSE? BOSTONIANS SEND ALARM TO COUNTRYSIDE
WHO? PAUL REVERE, WILLIAM DAWES, SAMUEL PRESCOTT

30. THE MINUTEMEN

31. PAUL REVERE

32. PAUL REVERE’S RIDE By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
LISTEN my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the Eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend. “If the British march
By land or by sea from the town tonight,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry–arch
Of the North Church tower, as a signal light,-
One if by land and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm,
Through every Middlesex village and farm…

34. PAUL REVERE’S RIDE

35. LEXINGTON & CONCORD WHEN? APRIL 19, 1775 WHAT?
2 SKIRMISHES
NOT REAL BATTLES
WHO? MINUTEMEN v. BRITISH
ACTION:
LEXINGTON: 8 COLONIALS KIA
CONCORD: BRIEF SKIRMISH, BRITS. DON’T FIND WEAPONS
RETREAT TO BOSTON TURNS INTO BLOODBATH FOR BRITISH TOOPS
RESULT?
BRITS. FORTIFY BOSTON
COLONIAL “ARMY” SURROUNDS BOSTON
BOSTON UNDER SEIGE

36. COLONIAL MILITIA

39. BATTLE OF LEXINGTON