The Boston Massacre

Please pull out your Intolerable Acts key terms worksheet.

Take a few minutes to review your key term/act

Remember…. you are the expert on this key term /act.

You will be responsible for making sure your group understands your key term/ act.

Tonight’s Homework:Finish the Boston Massacre Primary

source worksheet

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In your groups, each person is an expert on their key term / act

Each expert will take a turn teaching to their group members their key term / act

Each expert is responsible for making sure their group members are knowledgeable and informed about their key term / act

Key Terms Jigsaw Part 1 Continued

Who is the aggressor? Why?

Who is the aggressor here? Why?

March 5, 1770. British Private Hugh White stands sentry duty in the snowy, moonlit street before the Custom House. Moments before, he had sent a local boy running off, bruised and crying, after an exchange of words. Now, facing an angry crowd of civilians, White calls for help. Captain Thomas Preston and seven soldiers respond. Bells ring out nearby from the Old Brick Church, normally the town's fire alarm. On the dark street, people are shouting "Where's the fire?" adding to the confusion and tension. At the Custom House the crowd presses in, began to throw ice and rocks, taunting the soldiers, damning them to fire their muskets, knowing that soldiers are forbidden to shoot without orders from a civil magistrate. Private Hugh Montgomery is knocked down, and someone yells "Fire!" The soldiers shoot into the crowd, killing five and wounding six.

The Undisputed Facts…

Source: The Boston Historical Society. http://www.bostonmassacre.net/trial/trial-summary1.htm

ATT: Thinking about what you have learned so far about the Boston Massacre, in your opinion, what do you think could have really happened? Why?

Tonight’s Homework:Have a safe Halloween!!!!Finish Primary Source worksheet

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Read Primary Source #1

While reading…. Analyze the

documentCircle unknown

wordsUnderline key

conceptsWith your elbow buddy,

answer the questions for Primary Source #1

Boston Massacre Primary Source 1

Read Primary Source #2While reading….

Analyze the documentCircle unknown wordsUnderline key

conceptsHighlight ideas that

are present in both sources

With your elbow buddy, answer the questions for Primary Source #2

Boston Massacre Primary Source 2

Boston Tea PartyParliament

repealed almost all of the Townshend Acts to reduce tensions in the colonies.Kept tax on Tea

Tea Act: allowed British East India Co. to sell directly to colonists, cheaper than colonial teaThis hurt colonial tea

merchants

Sons of Liberty respond by dumping 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor

Parliament wanted to punish Boston for tea party

Passed a series of laws: Coercive Acts (colonists dubbed Intolerable Acts)

Included:1. Boston Harbor closed until tea paid for2. Massachusetts charter cancelled3. Royal officials accused of crimes sent to

Britain for trial4. Gen. Thomas Gage new governor of Mass.

Increased anger @ Britain

Intolerable Acts

Propaganda : Message spread widely to help or harm a person, group, nation, or movement

Propaganda Project

Directions:With your elbow buddy you will create a

propaganda poster on one of these Acts/ key termSugar ActStamp ActTownshend ActsTea ActIntolerable ActsTaxation w/o Representation

You can make your propaganda poster from either the Colonist or British point of view

Discuss with your elbow buddy and choose your top three choices (number your choices)

Propaganda Project