Stirrings of Rebellion Pages 5- 6 (box 2) 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 Finish page 11 notes French and Indian War Acrostic Notes p 5 ACTS and TAX Timeline Colonial Anger Gauge QUIZ/Calendar

French and Indian War- ► ► ► ► 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   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

FRIDAY! 9/20 ► TOTD: Do you think the King in England was right for not wanting the colonies to unite? Explain. Agenda: ► TOTD ► French and Indian War Share ► Finish p 5-6 notes + videos ► Colonial Anger Gauge ► Calendar Review

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

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 -protests and boycotts were organized -stamp agents were harassed -law eventually repealed (aka cancelled) -2.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 colonies England can make any law for the colonies to follow.

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 protests by colonists -British troops fire on crowd -5 colonists killed Crispus Attucks-1 st African American killed -Most soldiers found not guilty John Adams served as attorney for the soldiers

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

Boston Tea Party -tax on tea still remain in effect -monopoly on tea given to British company -Dec colonists raided Boston harbor and threw the tea overboard and burned the ships Sons of Liberty involved 365 chests of tea in harbor

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.