Stirrings of Rebellion Pages 9-10

TOTD: What is something that you have protested against OR would protest against and WHY would you or did you feel compelled to do so?Agenda:• TEST Results• Notes p 9-10Working on:• Info Check pg9• ACTS and TAX Timeline• Colonial Anger Gauge

French and Indian War-

►1754-1763►Who is fighting?

GB and France are fighting over land England (aka Great Britain) & the

American colonies against the French and Indians (some)

Great Britain won! Won French territories in N. America Wars are not cheap $$$ Now GB is in debt and need $

►British passed:►Proclamation Line of 1763. The law let Native Americans have any land west of the Appalachian Mountains.

►Colonists did not want to move west

Now what…►The F and I war debt was placed on the

American colonists

►Got money by taxing colonists = $$

►British colonists in America felt it wasn’t their war to fight…and the TAX shouldn’t be theirs either

►Parliament in London increasingly aware of the value of the American colonies

9/5 Friday: Stirrings of Rebellion TOTD: What is

something that you have protested against OR would protest against and WHY would you or did you feel compelled to do so?Working on:• Pg 4: continuing to

make colonists angry…

• Info Check• Research time

Stamp Act

-1. Parliament passes Stamp Act (1765)

-placed a direct tax on the colonists

• Taxed on every sheet of paper they used.

-required stamp on all legal documents, newspapers, license, and playing cards

• **FYI: The money collected by the Stamp Act was to be used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains (10,000 troops were to be stationed on the American frontier for this purpose).

-affected many colonists rich and poor

-Quartering Act, 1765- law stated that troops were allowed to enter and stay in colonists homes w/o permission!

Monday 9/8TOTD: “It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” What do you think Samuel Adams meant by this quote?

Agenda:►Notes pgs 4-5►Colonial Timeline Research Up next:► Formative Assessment Info Check Tues►Quiz Wednesday pg4

►http://allthingsliberty.com/2013/02/top-10-american-revolution-youtube-videos/

Resistance Begins

-Sons of Liberty-

• Secret society of Patriots

in Boston

• Samuel Adams

• John Adams

-No taxation w/o representation!!!

-protests and boycotts were organized

-stamp agents were harassed

-law eventually repealed (aka cancelled)

-2. Declaratory Act–(1766) states that Parliament has the right to declare laws for British coloniesEngland can make any law for the colonies to follow.

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/samuel-adams

1774-The Bostonians Paying the Excise Man

Townshend Acts

-new tax placed on imports such as tea, glass, paper, paint

-colonists again reacted with protests

-British reacted by sending more troops

• This made colonists angry again!

Boston Massacre

-March 1770

-protests by colonists

-British troops fire on crowd

-5 colonists killed

Crispus Attucks-1st African American killed

-Most soldiers found not guilty

John Adams served as attorney for the soldiers

http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/boston-massacre/videos

• one of five people killed in the Boston Massacre • has been

frequently named as the first martyr of the American Revolution• the only

person killed in the Boston Massacre whose name is commonly remembered

Tea Act (1773)

►Allowed company to bypass colonial merchants and sell the tea directly to shop keepers at a low price

►Tax on the most popular drink

Kermit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar6cFIfPFW4

Boston Tea Party

-tax on tea still remain in effect

-monopoly on tea given to British company

-Dec. 1773 colonists raided Boston harbor and threw the tea overboard and burned the ships

-resulted in more troops being sent to the colonies

• Sons of Liberty involved

• 365 chests of tea in harbor

9/9 Tuesday“We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”--Benjamin Franklin Explain the meaning of Franklin’s quote!Agenda:Rebellion begins Notes pg5Quiz p4 WEDNESDAYResearch Time (use it)

Intolerable Acts

-Parliament passes Coercive Acts in reaction

-Colonists call it the Intolerable Acts

-closed Boston Harbor

-suspended basic civil rights

-housed troops in peoples’ homes

-Committees of Correspondence:

• Groups of individuals who exchanged ideas, information, and propaganda used to encourage people to go against the British.

1st Continental Congress

-Committees of Correspondence this group had been communicating with other colonies

-militias begin to formminutemen

-after Intolerable Acts they call for a meeting

-late 1774 1st meeting held in Philadelphia

-discussed rights of colonies

-agreed to meet again in 1 year

Lexington and Concord

-April 1775

-British try to seize weapons stored in Concord

-Paul Revere, William Dawes, Samuel Prescott warn colonists

-minutemen met British at Lexington

-shots fired and colonists killed -”shot heard around the world“

-colonist conduct guerilla battle along road to Concord

2nd Continental Congress

-May 1775

-called for an army and appointed George Washington as leader

-some talk of compromise and some of independence

Bunker Hill

-June 1775

-Colonists take hill overlooking Boston (Breed’s Hill)

-British charge the hill 3 times until colonists run out of ammo

-lots of casualties

-deadliest battle of war

-proved colonists could compete with the British army in certain situations

Olive Branch

-July 1775

-2nd Continental Congress sends King George a petition to return to the peace of the past

-he refuses the petition and urges the rebellion put down

Common Sense-many colonists had loyalties that were strong to Britain

-Loyalists:

• those who remained loyal to the King and the British

• akaTories

-Patriots

• those who supported the move for independence

• risked everything because they could be hung as traitors

-Common Sense -pamphlet that urges independence for the colonies

-WRITTEN BY: Thomas Paine in Jan. 1776

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/british-loyalists-vs-american-patriots-during-the-american-revolution.html#lesson

9/10 Wednesday“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.” Benjamin FranklinHow does Franklin’s quote apply to the current topic we are covering in class?Agenda:Quiz p4, Research Time

Declaration of Independence

-June 1776 the Continental Congress was debating Independence

Richard Henry Lee: came up w/ the idea to be independent at the 2nd CC (called the Resolution for Independence) The resolution declared "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."

-Committee appointed to begin work on writing a formal document

-meant to explain the reasons for independence

-mostly written by Thomas Jefferson

-Congress edited the final draft

-Issued July 4, 1776

Concepts in the Declaration

-Jefferson took ideas from many Enlightenment thinkers like:

-John Locke: Natural Rights

Social Contract

All men are created equal

In the DoI:

-specific reasons for our independence

-Grievances against King George III and the British Parliament

Not in the DoI:

-Does not describe any particular form of government for the new nation

Eternal Statement -We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it.”

Choosing Sides-Loyalists

those who remained loyal to the King and the British

often called Tories

-Patriots

those who supported the move for independence

risked everything because they could be hung as traitors

-Undecided

As many as a third of the colonists were undecided as to whether independence or remaining part of England was the best decision