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Road to RevolutionPart 2
Cornell Notes
Topic/Objective: To identify KEY people, events, and Acts leading to the Am Revolution
Essential Question: What KEY events and people turned colonists against the British and led to the Am Revolution?
* Boston Tea Party - 1773
1) After Britain continued to tax tea, colonists protest by dumping Br tea into Boston Harbor.
2) 92,000 lbs of tea destroyed, worth $1 million
* Boston Tea Party - 1773
3) Boston Tea Party was planned by a secret rebel organization called the Sons of Liberty.
4) S of L plotted against Br policies.
* Intolerable Acts - 1774
1) Br shut down
Boston Harbor to
ALL trade until
ruined tea was
paid for
2) Br sent more
troops to Boston
to enforce Br laws
on colonists in the
Mass colony.
* Intolerable Acts - 1774
3) Replaced colonial
elected positions
w/officials appointed
by the King & P.
4) Outlawed colonists
from town meetings
* Loyalists vs Patriots
1) Def’n: Loyalists
• Colonists who stayed loyal to the Crown (Britain)
• Wanted to remain under British rule (~ 20% of pop)
* Loyalists vs Patriots (Trailer 2:40)
2) Def’n: Patriots
• Colonists who favored a rebellion against Br
• Wanted to be free of Br
rule
• Trying to overthrow the
Br gov’t considered an
act of treason, punished
by death
* Loyalists vs Patriots
3) Def’n of Minutemen• All-volunteer
company of armed
civilians trained to
fight “at a minute’s
warning.”• Made up 25% (1/4) of
the Continental Army
* Patrick Henry - March 1775
AaA ● Patriot from Virginia
● Gave a powerful speech stating, “Give me liberty or give me death.”
● His speech persuaded fellow Virginians to arm in self-defense against the Br.
* Thomas Paine & “Common Sense”
1) Thomas Paine
• Recent immigrant from England/Britain.
• Believed that ALL men, (not just landowners) had a right to vote
• Against ALL gov’ts ruled by a monarchy (royal rulers)
• Called King George III “the Royal Brute”
Common Sense – Jan. 1776
2) “Common Sense”
• Name of pamphlet written by T.P.
• Challenged the authority of the Br P and King George III
• 1st publication to argue that the colonists should seek independence from Great Br.