1. Warm up Vocab- Use book or other resource Boston Tea Party
Boston Massacre
Intolerable Acts
Social Contract
Unalienable Rights
First Continental Congress
Lexington and Concord
Committee of Correspondence

2. Review
French and Indian War changes Britain’s mind on salutary neglect
Tensions begin to rise between colonists and British

3. Today Events leading to the Revolution Boston Massacre
Boston Tea Party/Intolerable Acts

4. Pontiac’s Rebellion
Chief Pontiac led major attack on colonist in the west
British sent troops to defeat Pontiac
Began to question colonists in the west

5. Proclamation of 1763 Result of Pontiac’s Rebellion
Stopped colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Angered colonists
Believed it was their right to settle all the way to Pacific Ocean

6. Declaratory Act
Said that Parliament had the right to tax and pass laws for the colonies; taxing authority was the same in America as in Great Britain
Attempt to save face, justify taxes

7. Townshend Acts Enacted a tax on tea, glass and paper
Writs of Assistance
Allowed the search of private property without a warrant
Massachusetts Circular Letter
Written by James Otis and Sam Adams
Urged colonies to oppose acts

8. Townshend Acts Colonist organized boycotts of English goods
Parliament repealed the acts
Due to loss of trade

9. Boston Massacre Boston residents resented British troops
1770- British had stationed more than 4,000 troops in Boston. The population of Boston at the time was approximately 15,000.
March Colonists get into a scuffle with British troops
Soldiers fired into the crowd
Crispus Attucks-an African American was killed; 5 total killed

10. Committee of Correspondence
Created by Sam Adams
Bodies organized by the local govts of the American colonies in the late 1700s for the purposes of coordinating written communication outside of the colony.
Helped spread resistance of the British throughout the colonies

11. Boston Tea Party
British ordered the colonist to only buy tea from the East India Tea Party
Passed a tax on all tea- Tea Act
Smuggled Dutch tea
British lowered their price of tea below the Dutch

12. Boston Tea Party
A group of colonists dressed as Native Americans dumped tea into Boston Harbor
Led by the Sons of Liberty

13. Intolerable Acts Passed in response to the Boston Tea Party
Closed the port of Boston
Reduced the power of the Massachusetts legislature
Strengthened the royal governor
Administration of Justice Act
Allowed British officials to be tried in England for crimes

14. Which image do you think presents a more trustworthy account of the Boston Massacre?
What other information would you want to know about the images to better understand the Boston Massacre?
What information would you want to help you determine who was responsible for the violence?
Paul Revere created the first image, which he titled “Bloody Massacre in King Street.” Revere, a silversmith and engraver, was actively involved in efforts to resist British rule. He was a member of the Sons of Liberty and created engravings that sought to build opposition to the British. Revere began selling copies of “Bloody Massacre” three weeks after the event. He based it on an engraving by Henry Pelham, who was a Loyalist. Pelham was never credited for his work.
The second image comes from William Nell’s book The Colored Patriots of The American Revolution. The book was published in It was one of the earliest and most comprehensive books about African American history. Nell was an African American abolitionist from Massachusetts. He wrote for William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper The Liberator and Frederick Douglass’s The North Star. He also worked to end segregation in Massachusetts’s public schools. In 1851, he lobbied the Massachusetts legislature to create a monument honoring Crispus Attucks. In 1888, after Nell’s death, Boston installed a large monument commemorating the Boston Massacre and Attucks was featured prominently.

15. What details about the Boston Massacre do Documents A and B have in common?
What details about the event are different?
How are these accounts similar or different from the accounts provided by the two images?