1. American Revolution Chapter 7 Lesson 3
Colonists Unite
American Revolution Chapter 7 Lesson 3

2. Colonists Unite
Committees of Correspondence: wrote letters to each other telling what was being done to protest British laws.
Information traveled quickly
Why were Committees of Correspondence set up?

3. The Boston Tea Party
Law passed allowing British company to sell tea in the colonies for a low price. (Colonists still had to pay a tax)
British ships carrying tea arrived in Boston Harbor in December 1773.
5 members of Sons of Liberty dumped tea into Boston Harbor (dressed as Mohawk Indians)

4. Intolerable Acts
Consequences: Royal Navy blockade (use warships to prevent other ships from leaving) harbor until all tea was paid for (no ship carrying colonial goods could leave Boston Harbor)
Quarter or pay for housing of soldiers
General Thomas Gage (head of British Army) made new colonial governor of Massachusetts

5. The Continental Congress
Philadelphia (September 1774)
12 Representatives arrived at meeting
Stop all trade with Britain
No longer obey British laws that took away liberty
Demands for colonial rights not met the Congress would meet again in May 1775
Patrick Henry “Give me liberty or give me death”

6. Lexington and Concord
Minutemen: fighters in Massachusetts's militia that were ready to fight in a minute.
Patriots: Colonists against the British.
General Gage sent soldiers to find weapons (stored in Concord) and arrest Patriot leaders (John Hancock and Samuel Adams)
Paul Revere and William Dawes warned leaders British were coming
“Shot Heard Around The World” In Lexington British soldiers fired upon Minutemen (marked beginning of the war)