1. From Resistance to Revolution Part 2
Passing the Point of No Return

2. Causes of Protest
Can “Parliament legally take money out of our pockets without our consent?”
An attack on life, liberty, and property?

3. Tools of Protest Boycott Protests and Demonstrations ’but NO CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE’

4. Boston Massacre – March 1770
British perspective:
Mob formed throwing “snowballs”
Soldiers acting in self defense fired on a hostile crowd
5 people dead because of their own aggression

5. Boston Massacre: the Sons of Liberty Perspective

6. Who’s at fault?
How would the Sons of Liberty spin this?

7. Colonial response
Sons of Liberty begin forming “Committees of Correspondence” (accomplishing Ben Franklin’s 1754 goal)
Anger and more protests spread throughout the colonies
Parliament has to show the colonies that they still are in charge…they enforce the Tea Act (one of the Townshend Acts)

8. Boston Tea Party – Dec. 1773
Sons of Liberty organized a protest against this law…like other protests except they take it too far
Kind of dressed like Indians
Only destroy one thing…

9. What problem did the Colonists have with the Tea Act?
Who organized this?
Why play dress up?

10. Tea Party Results Property destroyed = furious Parliament
Parliament responds with the Coercive Acts (1774)
Raises the question: “Does Parliament have the right to do this?”

11. What is the victim’s job?
What was Samuel Adams’ reaction? His cousin, John’s?

12. What did the Intolerable Acts do?

13. Colonial reaction Now the right to make a living is being attacked
Colonies form the first Continental Congress, a central authority able to direct multiple colonies at once
England responds with more force…send troops to disarm the colonists

14. What were Dawes’ and Revere’s two reasons for riding to Lexington and Concord?
Were they successful?

15. Paul Revere’s Ride

16. “On the 18th of April in ‘75…”
The British, under General Thomas Gage, march from Boston to Concord, MA to arrest opposition leaders and confiscate Guns and ammo
They are met at Lexington then Concord

17. Lexington and Concord: The War Begins
Patriots or Colonists
VS.
British Regulars, Loyalists, and Tories