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Guide To Reading Notes 5

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Students happily playing basketball

Student Council Minutes

No adults allowed

Principal’s office away from Britain

Britain and colonies have good relations prior to 1763 because colonists are allowed to govern themselves

Colonial assemblies make their own laws

British government left students alone

Colonies far away from Britain

5:2 Before 1763

5.3 Early British ActionsIn Metaphor In History

New Rules

Half-court

Pay to use

Students funds will pay supervisors

Student’s anger

Proclamation of 1763

Colonists may not cross the Appalachian Mountains to settle.

Stamp Act – Colonists would have to pay a tax on items that are stamped, such as paper, newspapers, wills, licenses, and playing cards

Quartering Act – Colonists are forced to house and take care of British soldiers in their own homes

Colonists protest by ignoring laws, petitioning, and rioting

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Man staffing the stand

Sign reading “Equipment Rental”

Male student yelling friends not to use basketballs

Female student walking away

Charles Townshend

Taxes imposed on everyday items (glass, paint, paper and tea) by Townshend Acts

Sons of Liberty boycott of British goods

Daughters of Liberty helped the boycott by making items at home

5.4 The Townshend Acts

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Vice principal and security guard

Protesting students

Vice principal’s threat to suspend

British troops in Boston

Patriot mob yells and teases the soldiers

Captain tries to get people to go home. But British fire upon the crowd. Five colonists are killed. This event was used as propaganda to raise the colonists’ emotions against the British. This event became known as “The Boston Massacre.”

5.5 The Boston Massacre

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Sign reading “Cafeteria food only”

Male student throwing lunch into trash

Male student cheering in the background

Colonists forced to buy tea from British East India Company

Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor

John Adams celebrating the Boston Tea Party

5.6 The Boston Tea Party

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Students given detention

Female student angry at male student

Protest letters

Britain punishes Bostonians with several harsh laws: 1. Closed Boston Harbor 2. government of Boston under British control – no town meetings 3. British soldiers who were accused of murder would be tried in England not in the colonies 4. More troops sent to Boston

Loyalists believe Bostonians have gone too far

Letter from First Continental Congress to King George – Olive Branch Petition – urged the king to consider their complaints and to recognize their rights

5.7 The Intolerable Acts

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Principal

Principal’s statement

Running female student

King George

British consider stronger action, such as sending troops into Boston, to stop the rebellion

Paul Revere and William Dawes warn colonists of the impending attack

5.8 Lexington and Concord