1. Agenda 8.31.17 What do you know about the Revolutionary War?
Grab a marker and write it on the board.
Grab a textbook and turn to pg. 46
Use the book to fill the chart on pg. 2 of your packet
You guys can work together or individually, but make sure you are working.

2. Agenda 9.1.17 Bell Ringer Review 2.1 Chart Brief Notes
Get out 2.1 chart to be checked in
Review 2.1 Chart
Brief Notes
Chapter 2.1 continued
Essential Question: How did the events that angered the Colonists move them to action against the British?

3. Sugar Act Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1764
New British policy used to raise money after French + Indian War
Reduced tax on foreign molasses to reduce incidence of smuggling
Taxes on previously untaxed items
Colonists accused of violating act would be tried in court by judge – no jury of peers
Complained of reduced profits
Parliament has no right to tax colonists because of lack of representation – no taxation without representation
In response to rumors of colonists smuggling goods in, so British were losing money on imports

4. Stamp Act Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1765
Law requiring colonists to purchase special stamps to prove payment of tax
Usually on items such as wills, newspapers, playing cards
First tax to affect colonists directly because placed on goods and services
Colonists unite to defy
Boston shopkeepers, artisans, and laborers form Sons of Liberty
Boycott of British goods in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
Worked! Repealed in 1766

5. Declaratory Act Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1766
Repeal Stamp Act, then immediately create Declaratory Act
Parliament’s full right to rule the colonies in any way it sees fit
Reassert authority over colonies
Colonists happy with repeal of Stamp Act
Continue to protest other British laws

6. Townshend Act Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1767
Taxes placed on lead, paper, tea, paint, and glass collected at port
Revenues used to support British troops, royal governors, and judges
Created customs commission
Suspended NY assembly for not complying with the quartering act
Sons of Liberty (leader = Samuel Adams) boycott British goods
No taxation without representation

7. Answer the following questions
Who looks to be the aggressor in the photo?
What about the photo leads you to this conclusion?

8. Answer the following questions
Who looks to be the aggressor in the photo?
What about the photo leads you to this conclusion?

9. Boston Massacre Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1770
“Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania”
Widely spread series of letters protesting Townshend Act
Taunted by angry mob, British troops fire into crowd, killing five colonists
Crispus Attucks
Colonial agitators label conflict massacre
Publish dramatic pictures showing violence

10. Tea Act Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1773
Law created to save East India Company
Allowed company to sell extra tea in American colonies
Kept import tax on tea, making it difficult for colonial tea merchants to make business
Boston colonists dressed as Native Americans express distaste for Tea Act by dumping 18,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor

11. Intolerable Acts Year British Action Colonist Reaction 1774
King George III tightens control over Massachusetts
Close Boston Harbor until damaged tea is paid for
Eliminate self-government in Boston
Form First Continental Congress
Delegates from 12 colonies meet
Create Continental Association to boycott British goods
Draw up Declaration of Colonial Rights
Sent a partition to the King, outlining rights of colonists and their assemblies

12. Beginnings of Revolution
CHAPTER 2, SECTION 1
ESSENTIAL QUESTION: HOW DID THE EVENTS THAT ANGERED THE COLONISTS MOVE THEM TO ACTION AGAINST THE BRITISH?

13. First Continental Congress
Committees of correspondence met as First Continental Congress in September 1774
56 delegates met in Philadelphia
Drew up Declaration of Colonial Rights
Should be able to run their own affairs and if Britain used force, colonies could fight back

14. First Continental Congress
New England towns begin organizing militias (armies)
Upset about unfair British practices
Nicknamed “minutemen” because of their ability to organize quickly

15. Paul Revere’s Ride Minutemen stockpiled weapons
April 18, 1775 – Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott rode to spread word that 700 Redcoats (British) were coming to Lexington and Concord

16. Paul Revere’s Ride Met by 70 minutemen
8 minutemen killed, 10 injured
This was known as the Battle of Lexington
By the time they made it to Concord, the colonists had moved the militia
When they rode back to Boston, 3,000-4,000 minutemen were waiting

17. Second Continental Congress
May 1775
Philadelphia
Recognized colonial militia as Continental Army
Appointed George Washington commander

18. Bunker Hill
British general Thomas Gage sent 2,400 British soldiers near Bunker Hill on June 17, 1775
Colonists lost 450 men
British lost 1,000 men
July 8th – Congress sent King George the Olive Branch Petition
Urging a return to former harmony
Rejected – George issued proclamation that colonists were in rebellion and urged Parliament to blockade them
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19. Exit Ticket Answer the following question before you leave!
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