Colonial Unrest Verbally review with your neighbor What
Colonial Unrest
Verbally review with your neighbor: • What was the English Bill of Rights and who did it protect? • How did Colonial governments work? • What power did Parliament have over the Colonies?
Focus Question: How did the British government’s actions in the years between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution lead colonists to believe they needed to form an independent nation?
Focus Question: How did the British government’s actions in the years between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution lead colonists to believe they needed to form an independent nation? For each event, must be able to 1. describe the event 2. explain why the event made colonists upset 3. Explain how the event contributed to their desire for independence
(5) I am able to explain multiple reasons why the American colonists began to separate from Britain after the French and Indian War. (6) I am able to describe the causes and effects of events such as the Proclamation of 1763, Quartering Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington and Concord, and taxation such as the Stamp Act • AND can explain how the actions of the Continental Congress changed over time from petitioning the king to fighting for independence.
1. Read through learning targets 5 and 6 a at the top of the Colonial Unrest chart. 2. Discuss with your neighbor: How can these two targets be combined into one learning target answer?
Proclamation of 1763
Sugar Act • Put duties on molasses and sugar • British government said the money was to pay for debt from the French and Indian War and to pay to protect the colonies from Native Americans. • Colonists angry because of no taxation without representation • Repealed (law is cancelled)
Stamp Act
Quartering Act
Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party
How does the Boston Tea Party demonstrate that anger over taxes was more about rights than money?
At first, colonists’ efforts towards the king and Parliament were designed to be treated with the rights they deserve as British citizens. However, as time went on, a rebel idea spread that maybe there was no way to be treated fairly as colonists because Britain doesn’t understand colonists’ lives and values. Maybe the only way to have our basic rights honored was to be something else separate from Britain? Rather than fighting for acceptance and equal treatment from the British, maybe it’s time to fight for something else?
In what ways did British actions following the French and Indian War violate colonists’ rights and lead them to rebellion? How did British actions move Americans from seeking to maintain their rights as British citizens to seeking to be free from British rule?
1. Why were the colonists more angered by the Townshend Acts than previous taxes? 2. Provide evidence that protests against taxes weren’t simply an unwillingness to pay. 3. Why would John Adams defend British soldiers after the Boston Massacre? 4. If the Intolerable Acts were meant to punish Massachusetts, how did they lead other colonies to question their loyalty to Britain? 5. Provide evidence that the beginning of the Revolution was not for independence.
Intolerable Acts Coercive Acts
Intolerable Acts To punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party, the following Acts are put into place until the tea is paid for: 1. Close Boston harbor 2. Disband colonial legislature/town meetings 3. Royal officials face trial in Britain 4. Quartering Act Though the Intolerable Acts were only enforced on Massachusetts, the other colonies still protested and sent supplies to Massachusetts
First Continental Congress
First Continental Congress • 50 representatives meet in Philadelphia • 12/13 Colonies are represented (not Georgia) • Petitioned the King over concerns regarding the Intolerable Acts • Agree to boycott British goods, stop exports to Britain, and begin forming colonial militias
Lexington and Concord
Lexington and Concord –April 1775 • Parliament rejected all petitions from the Continental Congress • British troops were marching towards Lexington and Concord to seize colonial weapons and capture Sam Adams and John Hancock • Members of the militia known as minutemen met the British soldiers at Lexington. It is not clear who officially fired first to start the war. • British soldiers meet more minutemen at Concord and are attacked as they retreat to Boston. • The Revolutionary War is started with these two battles
• Second Continental Congress meets to again petition the King in Summer of 1775 – Olive Branch Petition • Minutemen gather in large numbers around Boston and the Second Continental Congress chose George Washington to lead them. • February 9, 1775: King George declares Massachusetts in Rebellion • April 1775: British General Gates is told by the King/Parliament to suppress rebellion with “all necessary
True/False Explain 1. ____Colonists were fighting for independence at the beginning of the war. 2. ____ Colonists disagreed about rebelling against England. 3. ____ Colonists tried various means to petition the King.
1. _False_The purpose for fighting at the beginning of the American Revolution was to gain independence. 2. _True_ Colonists disagreed about rebelling against England. 3. _True_ Colonists tried various means to petition the King.
French and Indian War 5. I am able to explain multiple reasons why the American colonists began to separate from Britain after the French and Indian War. Road to Revolution – I can describe why the American colonists rebelled against Britain. 6. I am able to describe the causes and effects of events such as the Proclamation of 1763, Quartering Act, Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts, Lexington and Concord, and taxation such as the Stamp Act.
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