1. Key Points Act = law Tax = duty = customs
Smuggling = illegally sneaking items in to avoid something, for example taxes

2. No More Kings

3. Key People
John Adams (lawyer, 2nd president): more cautious than Sam; thinker; knowledgeable in British law; defended soldiers involved in Boston Massacre for fairness; said crowd provoked the shootings
Patrick Henry (Give me liberty or give me death!): lawyer; loud critic of British policies; spoke in VA HOB; tobacco wealthy

4. Key People
Paul Revere (silversmith, Boston Massacre engraving, The British are coming!); engraving is very bias towards colonists
Sons & Daughters of Liberty (Boston Tea Party, cloth & tea boycotts)
Crispus Attucks (Boston Massacre); African American sailor killed in Boston Massacre

5. Key People
Sam Adams (Sons of Liberty, Boston Tea Party): great people organizer; arranged protests, gained public support; poor speaker; began Boston Committee of Correspondence

6. “No Taxation without Representation”
Colonists felt Stamp Act was unjust
They did not elect representatives to Parliament
Said Parliament had no right to tax them without representatives
Colonists were willing to pay taxes only if the laws were passed by colonial legislatures

8. Tea Act of 1773
Most tea provided to colonies by British East India Company
British bought tea in Asia & sold to colonial merchants
Colonial merchants sold tea to colonists
Tea Act let British sell tea directly to colonists
Lowered price of tea
Colonists protested because their merchants had been forced out of tea trade

10. New Boycott
Colonists believed the Tea Act was a trick to make them accept Parliament’s taxes
Daughters of Liberty led boycott
Sons of Liberty kept British East India Company from unloading tea at docks

12. The Bostonian’s Paying the Excise-Man, or Tarring & Feathering

13. Boston Tea Party November 1773 3 tea ships reached Boston harbor
Governor insisted that tea be unloaded
Sons of Liberty demanded that ships leave
Sam Adams: “This meeting can do nothing further to save the country”
Men left meeting dressed as Indians
Cried: “Boston harbor a teapot tonight!”
Men boarded ships & dumped tea into harbor

16. Intolerable Acts Parliament passed 4 laws to punish Mass.
Shut down Boston port
Forbade Mass. to hold town meetings more than once a year
Allowed British officers charged with crimes to have trials in Britain
Passed Quartering Act that forced colonists to house British soldiers
Colonists called these laws Intolerable Acts