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New British Laws/Taxes
Huge National Debt to pay off: 10,000 NOW
stationed in America
British thought Colonists should pay for the Protection
New British Laws/Taxes
Sugar Act: Sugar was used to
sweeten tea and create rum
Tax on Sugar to make money
Taxes = increase in price of
sugar and rum A Breach of English
Rights? “No Taxation
without Direct Representation”
New British Laws/Taxes
The Stamp Act – 1765 All official documents
required to have a stamp on it – a stamp that was paid for
Affected Middle Class Artisans &
merchants Literate and involved
Caused Major Demonstrations!
The Stamp Act Congress
October 1765: 9 colonies sent delegates to NYC Petitioned the King to Remove the Tax
The Colonial Boycott: Boycott of all British Goods Successful: Stamp Act repealed
Parliament Stated they had the RIGHT to tax
New British Laws/Taxes
New British Laws/Taxes
The Quartering Act: 1765: Colonists had
to provide living arrangements for British Soldiers
In their homes or barracks
Townshend Act:
1767: Taxed goods FROM GB Writs of Assistance:
Allowed GB to search homes for smuggled goods without a warrant
Right to privacy in ones home is cherished COLONISTS ANGRY!!! COLONISTS SMASH!!!
Act Repealed except for Tax on Tea!
New British Laws/Taxes
British troops in Boston were BIG RED
SYMBOLS of BRITISH RULE! Unskilled labor hated them:
British Troops 2nd Jobs Would take jobs from Colonists
Boston Massacre
March 1770:
Mob formed outside customs house Mob threw snowballs at the Guards outside Someone yelled “fire” and the British soldiers
fired into the crowd 5 people died Sons of Liberty played up the attack Historical Bias? Paul Revere’s Engraving
Boston Massacre
Soldiers on Trial for Murder
Defended by John Adams All soldiers released except for 2
Served Light sentences
British soldiers were removed from Boston to the countryside
Boston Massacre
The Boston Tea Party
Dec 16,1773: 3 east India tea
ships in Boston Harbor
Samuel Adams +70 Sons of Liberty boarded the ships and sent $1 million in tea overboard
Hundreds watched
1774: Parliament response to Tea Party
Closed Port of Boston GB brought in more troops and strict Gov. until
tea was repaid
Sons of Liberty renamed it “Intolerable Acts” Historical Bias?
The Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts further unified the Colonists 1774: First Continental Congress met in Philly
1. Agreed parliament had too much control3. Agreed to a non-importation Agreement4. “Minutemen” formed
King George III wants Mass. Under Control!Tells Gen. Thomas Gage to handle it!
First Continental Congress
Hostilities Begin
April 18, 1775- 700 British Troops to
Concord Mass. Secure Colonial
Supplies and arrest Leaders
Spreading the Alarm: Paul Revere and 20+
riders inform the Minute Men in Mass.
Lexington:
70 Minutemen met at Lexington to stop the British
70 Colonists vs. 700 British “Shot Heard ‘round the World” 8 Colonial Casualties – Colonists lose
The British continued on the Concord
OPEN CONFLICT HAS BEGUN!
Hostilities Begin
Concord:
Hundreds of Minutemen there Concord supplies/ leaders moved Both sides exchanged shots The British retreated back to Boston
Militiamen fired on Redcoats all the way back to Boston
Surrounded British in Boston
Hostilities Begin
Battle of Two Styles of Protest!!COUSIN vs. COUSIN! LETS DO THIS!
John Adams vs. Samuel Adams
John Adams
Born in 1735 Father
Involved in Politics Puritan Deacon
Adams family was on the Mayflower Rise to Prominence:
Stamp Act of 1765 Wrote and Published on Enlightenment ideas and
Stamp Act legality Wrote “Braintree Instructions” in defense of
colonial rights against Parliament aggression Defended the 8 British soldiers of the Boston
Massacre – And Won
Philosophy: Enlightened Thinker Believer in Republican Government
“Rule by People AND by LAW” Huge supporter of the RULE OF LAW Law and Facts do not change – men do Supporter of Bicameral Legislature and
Separation of Powers THE PATRIOT BY PEN!
John Adams
Trial of the Boston massacre soldiers in “John Adams”
Samuel Adams
Born 1722 Family leading figure in local Politics
Mass. House of Reps. 1748: Began a local Newspaper that criticized
British Rule Became a very popular man among the common
people Involved in Sugar Act Protest
1748:
Began a local Newspaper Criticized British Rule
Became a very popular man among the common people
Sugar Act Protest Involved in Protest – led many
1765: Helped Found the “Sons of Liberty” of Boston Group of Middle class Boston residents who
opposed British Authority
Sam Adams
Tactics:
Boycotts Effigy Burnings Mob Intimidation Tar and Feather 1773: Boston Tea Party
SAM ADAMS: LEADER OF THE SONS – THE PATRIOT’S MUSKET
Tar and Feather example from “John Adams”
Sons of Liberty