4-1: The Stirrings of Rebellion

1a. The British Parliament Passed the Stamp Act (1765) in order to… To increase revenue from the colonies To finance debts from the French and Indian War, as well as from European wars Stamp Act: Law passed by parliament to make colonist buy a stamp to place on many items made with paper (wills, newspapers, playing cards etc.)

1b, Colonists responded to the Stamp Act by … Organizing the Sons of Liberty (Leader Samuel Adams) Demonstrating and protesting Harassing custom workers and stamp agents Passing Resolutions Holding the Stamp Act Congress Writing the Declaration of Rights and Grievances Boycotting British Goods 1b, Colonists responded to the Stamp Act by … Stamp Act Congress =Delegates from 9 colonies meet in NYC and write The Declaration of Rights and Grievances = Document sent to Parliament that says the colonists won’t pay new taxes without representation

1c. Britain responded to the colonists by… Parliament responded by repealing the Stamp Act (The boycott on buying British goods worked!) Parliament issues the Declaratory Act = Parliament reasserts its right/power to make laws in all cases in the colonies

2a. The British Parliament Passed the Townshend Act (1767) in order to… …To increase revenue from the colonies Townshed Act: Law passed by parliament in 1767 that set taxes/duties on imports to the colonies (glass, led, paper, paint and a three-penny tax on tea)

2b, Colonists responded to the Townshend Act by … Demonstrating and protesting Boycotting British goods Replacing British goods with goods made in the colonies

2c. Britain responded to the colonists by… Parliament responded by enforcing the Act Stationing troops in Boston Then repealing the Act (1770)

3a. The British Parliament Passed the Tea Act (1773) in order to… To save the East India Company from bankruptcy. (The company had been hit hard by the colonial boycotts) Tea Act: The government gave the British company the right to all the trade on tea angering the colonial merchants who then lost their tea business.

Samuel Adams: A political activist who led the Sons of Liberty, a secret organization, in well organized resistance.

Boston Massacre (1770) A conflict between colonists and British soldiers in which four colonists were killed. Crispus Attucks, is the first colonist to die in the snow.

Committees of Correspondence A network of communication set up in Massachusetts and Virginia to inform the colonies of ways that Britain threatened colonial rights

King George III: King of England during the American Revolution Martial Law: Rule by the military

3b, Colonists responded to the Tea Act by … dumping 15,000 pounds of the East India Company’s tea into the waters of Boston Harbor; holding the Boston Tea Party ON BACK: The Tea Act results in the Boston Tea Party: Protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped British tea into Boston Harbor

3c. Britain responded to the colonists by… …Passing the Intolerable Acts

4a. The British Parliament Passed the Intolerable Acts (1774) in order to… …To punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party To tighten control over Massachusetts. Intolerable Acts: A series of laws set up by Parliament to punish Massachusetts for its protests against Britain

4b, Colonists responded to the Intolerable Acts by … Holding the first Continental Congress Pulling together to support the protests in Massachusetts Stepping up military preparations

4c. Britain responded to the colonists by… …by marching troops to Concord to seize illegal weapons and by engaging the Colonists in battle.