The Boston Tea Party

Leimkuhler Productions

Colonial Resistance Grows

D o Now:1.Take out your editorials drafts (you

should have two).2.Read your most recent draft and

use the rubric for the editorial in your project packet to grade it. Use a pencil!

Taxing Tea

• The Townshend Acts were repealed, except the tax on tea.

• In 1773, Parliament Passed the Tea Act– Gave British East India Company a monopoly over

the tea trade – British tea was cheaper than the smuggled Dutch

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The Boston Tea Party

The Intolerable Acts

• Lord North was stunned by the news of the Boston Tea Party.

• King George agreed. “We must master them totally,” he declared, “or leave them to themselves and treat them as aliens.”

• Parliament to pass a new series of laws in 1774. – Designed to punish Massachusetts and

serve as a warning to the other colonies. – British called these acts the Coercive Acts,

but they were so harsh that the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.

Reactions

• The colonies unite– Other colonies offered Massachusetts support– Committees of correspondence called for a

meeting of all the colonies.

The First Continental Congress• Who?– Representatives from all the colonies except Georgia

• When?– September 1774

• What?– Met for the First Continental Congress

• decided to ban all trade with Britain until the Intolerable Acts were repealed

• began to form militia

• Where?– Philadelphia

• Why?– In reaction to the Intolerable Acts

Lead Article• Lead articles include factual information about an event

– The 5 W’s• Does not contain opinion (but often has bias)• Include details and quotations• Accompanied by a picture• Written in third person. Does not mention “I,” “me,” or “we”

Your Task: Write a lead article about the Boston Tea Party or the Boston Massacre– You can use outside sources– 1 page typed (double-spaced) or 1 ½ pages handwritten