1. Bellringer (9/1/15) List the symbols you see in the political cartoon.
What do you think the message of the political cartoon is?
What is going on at the time the political cartoon is printed (hint: look at notes from Monday)?
What makes this cartoon significant in US history?
Published in Pennsylvania Gazette (owned by Benjamin Franklin) in May 1754.

2. Today’s Class (9/1/15) Outcome:
Be able to identify and explain the events that contributed to tension between Britain and the colonists that resulted in the American Revolution.
Agenda:
Bellringer
Road to Revolution Timeline
Create Pamphlet/Political Cartoon

3. Road to the Revolution Timeline

4. Timeline Event #1 Sugar Act (April 1764)
British Action:
Colonists’ Reaction:
Increased enforcement of tax on molasses.
New taxes on sugar, wine, coffee
Merchants angered by new laws (would reduce their profit)
Upset at no representation in British Parliament

5. Timeline Event #2 Stamp Act (March 1765)
British Action:
Colonists’ Reaction:
Required colonists to purchase special stamps for most printed products.
Wills, Newspapers, birth certificates, playing cards
Samuel Adams and other colonists form the Sons of Liberty to protest the law.
Sons of Liberty organize boycott of British goods, act repealed in March 1766.

6. Timeline Event #3 Townshend Acts (June 1767)
British Action:
Colonists’ Reaction:
Taxed popular goods (lead, glass, paint, tea, paper) that were imported into the colonies from Britain.
Samuel Adams and Sons of Liberty continue boycott of British goods.
Colonists continue protest “no taxation without representation”

7. Timeline Event #4 Boston Massacre (March 1770)
British Action:
Colonists’ Reaction:
Taunted by an angry mob, British troops fire into the crowd, killing five colonists.
Colonists label the conflict a massacre.
Paul Revere publishes a dramatic engraving to depict the violence.
Example of colonial propaganda

8. The bloody Massacre (March 1770)

9. Timeline Event #5 Tea Act (May 1773)
British Action:
Colonists’ Reaction:
Britain allows East India Company to sell tea tax-free in colonies
Bankrupts colonial tea merchants (who still had to pay taxes) - East India Company tea much cheaper
Boston Tea Party (Dec 1773) – colonists dump 18,000 pounds of East India Company tea into the Boston Harbor.

10. Boston Tea Party (December 1773)

11. Timeline Event #6 Intolerable Acts (April 1774)
British Actions:
Colonists’ Reaction:
British shut down Boston harbor
Gave British commanders permission to house soldiers in private homes.
British Gen. Thomas Gage named new governor of Massachusetts.
Colonists form First Continental Congress and begin drawing up declaration of rights in Philadelphia.
Rep. from 12 colonies
Began discussions of independence from Britain

12. Timeline Event #7 Lexington & Concord (April 1775)
British Action:
Colonists’ Reaction:
General Thomas Gage (new governor of Massachusetts) orders troops to march to Concord, MA to seize colonial weapons stash.
Civilian soldiers (minutemen) meet British redcoats at Lexington, then Concord.
The “shot heard ‘round the world” is fired.
The American Revolution begins.

13. Road to Revolution Assignment Choose one:
Pamphlet
Political Cartoon
Design a pamphlet to persuade colonists to support or oppose independence.
It should be written as though published after an event on your timeline.
Explain the following in your pamphlet:
Reasons for OR against independence
Reasons against the other viewpoint
How life would be with & without British rule.
Create a political cartoon based on one of the events on your timeline.
Political cartoons should:
Exaggerate events – make them seem cartoonish
Use recognizable symbols that are relevant (i.e. $ = tax)
Make some sort of statement or comment on the event.
***NOT just a picture***

14. Road to Revolution Assignment Choose one:
Pamphlet
Political Cartoon
Design a pamphlet to persuade colonists to support or oppose independence.
It should be written as though published after an event on your timeline.
Explain the following in your pamphlet:
Reasons for OR against independence
Reasons against the other viewpoint
How life would be with & without British rule.
Create a political cartoon based on one of the events on your timeline.
Political cartoons should:
Exaggerate events – make them seem cartoonish
Use recognizable symbols that are relevant (e.g. $ = tax)
Make some sort of statement or comment on the event.
***NOT just a picture***

15. Political cartoon example

16. More political cartoons to show examples of

17. Bellringer (9/11/13)
What action did the Sons of Liberty take to protest the British taxation of the colonies?
What did the Stamp Act require?
What does the phrase “no taxation without representation” mean?

18. Today’s class (9/11/13) Outcome: Agenda:
Be able to identify and explain events that led to the American Revolutionary War.
Agenda:
Bellringer
Finish pamphlet/political cartoon
Share pamphlets/political cartoons
Checking Your Understanding
9/11 documentary (if time)

19. Checking your understanding
Get out 1 sheet of your own notebook paper.
Clear your desk of everything except a writing utensil.
As we go through the 7 questions, write the correct answer for each question on your paper.

20. Question 1
The Boston Tea Party was a protest by colonists against the _________________ passed by British Parliament.
Stamp Act
Sugar Act
Tea Act
Intolerable Acts

21. Question 2
Which of the three actions was NOT part of the Intolerable Acts?
The Boston harbor was shut down
A British General was made governor of Massachusetts
British commanders could house British soldiers in private homes
Colonists were restricted from traveling to other colonies

22. Question 3
Which event saw a group of British soldiers fire into a crowd of colonists, killing 5 of them?
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Massacre
The Olive Branch Petition
The first Sons of Liberty meeting

23. Question 4
___________________ formed the secret resistance group, the Sons of Liberty, that protested British taxation in the colonies.
Samuel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Crispus Attucks
Thomas Gage

24. Question 5
The __________________ Acts were the most severe punishment inflicted on the colonists.
Sugar
Stamp
Townshend
Intolerable

25. Question 6
This Act by British Parliament further increased taxes that colonists were forced to pay by adding taxes to popular items such as tea, lead, paint, and paper.
Townshend Act
Intolerable Acts
Sugar Act
Stamp Act

26. Question 7
Lexington & Concord, Massachusetts are significant in American history because...
They are the meeting sites of the first Continental Congress in the colonies.
American colonists and British opened fire on one another, starting the Revolutionary War.
Both towns had large ports and were severely hurt by the Intolerable acts.
They were home to large groups of British supporters who did not favor independence.

27. Review your answers
C – Boston Tea Party participants were protesting the Tea Act.
D – the Intolerable acts closed Boston’s port, forced colonists to house British soldiers, and British General Thomas Gage was made governor of Massachusetts
B – The Boston Massacre saw colonists taunting British soldiers, then 5 colonists were killed when the soldiers opened fire on the colonists.
A - Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty protested the additional taxes by boycotting British goods.
D – The Intolerable Acts were the most severe acts against the colonists.
A – The Townshend Act added more taxes onto popular colonial goods such as lead, paint, tea, and paper.
B – Lexington & Concord were the site of the first battles of the American Revolutionary War.