Unit 3 Day 11: Stirrings of Rebellion

Questions of the Day 1. Analyze the documents and people that influenced the colonists’ views on self-government. 2. Analyze the events and actions that led the colonies to rebel against Great Britain. 3. Evaluate the role of civil disobedience in the colonial era. How did colonists react to the treatment they received from the British government? 4. How did the events of the Revolutionary time period influence the formation of a national identity?

Resistance Begins  Sons of Liberty – group of colonist that secretly harassed and led protests;  Boston – Sam Adams and John Adams  No taxation without representation  Stamp Agents – bill collectors were harassed  Law Repealed  Committees of Correspondence: groups of townspeople in each colony, meeting to discuss ‘what to do about British’

Tar and Feathering  Video Video  Who are smugglers?  How else did colonists resist?

Boston Massacre  March 1770 – British soldiers are being harassed by Boston townsfolk  British Guns – British fire on the crowd, 5 die, Crispus Attucks is the first to fall  John Adams – represents the soldiers in court, most are found not guilty  video video

Boston Tea Party  Taxes on Tea – lowered the tax but it was enforced  Monopoly on tea given to British Tea Companies  Dec – Colonist raided Boston harbor dressed as Indians and threw the British tea into the harbor before setting the British ships on fire

Intolerable Acts  Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts) – laws passed as a reaction to the Tea Party  Punishments –  Closed the Boston Harbor  Suspended basic civil rights – writ of habeas corpus  Placed more soldiers in the homes  Colonial Reaction – Began the Committees of Correspondence, colonial militias form

REVOLUTION BEGINS  1 st Continental Congress  1774 – 1 st meeting in Philadelphia to discuss the rights of the colonies, Dickenson of Penn wants peace; agree to meet again in one year

Important Events  Lexington and Concord  April 1775 – British try to seize weapons stored in Concord  2 nd Continental Congress  May 1775 – Called for an army and appointed Washington as leader  Doves – some call for Peace (Dickenson of Penn)  Olive Branch Petition

Olive Branch  July 1775 – 2 nd Continental Congress sends King George a petition to return to the peace of the past  King George – refuses the petition and urges the rebellion be put down in the most severe fashion

Battle of Bunker Hill:  Look up:  How many British soldiers died at the Battle of Bunker Hill?  How many Colonial soldiers died at BOBH?

Bunker Hill (Breed’s Hill)  June 1775 – Colonist establish a position on Breeds Hill overlooking Boston  Ammo – British charge the hill 3 times, deadliest battle of the war, Colonial retreat

Common Sense  Loyalist – people still loyal to the King and crown  Patriots – people in support of Independence  Common Sense – written by Thomas Paine in Jan urging independence for the colonies