1. Chapter 5 – 3 Protest to Revolution
Delegates – a representative to a conference or meeting
British East India Company – British company that sold tea in America and elsewhere
King George III – British king during the days leading to the revolution
First Continental Congress – each colony (except Georgia) sent delegates to meet in Philadelphia and decide how to respond to Intolerable Acts
Coerce – to force someone to do something against their will, especially by punishment or fear (adjective form: coercive)
TEA ACT – Gave British tea merchants an advantage
Kept tax on tea for Colonial tea merchants
Removed tax on tea for British tea merchants
Colonists felt it was unfair advantage for British merchants
Colonists thought it was a trick and boycotted tea
BOSTON TEA PARTY – protest against Tea Act
Led by Sons of Liberty and Sam Adams
Colonists dressed as Mohawk Indians
Boarded British tea ship in Boston Harbor and threw 342 chests of tea overboard

2. Chapter 5 – 3 Protest to Revolution
INTOLERABLE ACTS – List of “punishments” for Boston
King expected Bostonians to pay for the tea ruined in the tea party
British called them “Coercive Acts”
1st: Boston Harbor was closed
2nd: Town meetings were outlawed without permission; juries were chosen by British
3rd: British officials who had been accused of crimes would be tried in Canada or Britain
4th: QUARTERING ACT: Bostonians had to house soldiers in their homes

3. Chapter 5 – 3 Protest to Revolution
Quebec: French-speaking area of Canada
Thomas Gage: British commander in Boston
John Parker: commander of minutemen at Lexington and Concord
QUEBEC ACT –
Parliament gave religious freedom to French Catholics
Set up government for Canada
Extended borders of Quebec to include lands won in the 7 Years War
Further angered colonists
Quebec City

4. Chapter 5 – 3 Protest to Revolution
Patriot: Colonists who sided with the Sons of Liberty
Lexington and Concord: small towns on outskirts of Boston
BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
Sons of Liberty had arsenal at Concord
Gage planned to attack patriot arsenal
He sent 700 troops
Sons of Liberty were watching from Old North Church – had secret code to show that British were coming by hanging two lanterns in the church tower
Paul Revere and William Dawes rode on horseback through the night, warning colonists that “The British are coming!”
At dawn British troops met a group of 70 colonists at a bridge outside Concord
Brits ordered Patriots to retreat; Patriots refused
Shots rang out – no one knows who fired the first shot; 8 colonists were killed
First shots of the American Revolution – known as “Shot heard ‘round the world”
British marched on toward Lexington – didn’t get the colonial weapons

5. Chapter 5 – 2 Turmoil Over Taxes
British met a group of 300 minutemen near Concord
Battle followed – British were forced to retreat to Boston
Minutemen used guerrilla tactics and followed Brits to Boston – 73 redcoats died; 200 were wounded or missing
The American Revolution had begun