1. Place your Major Grade work in your folder.
1/27/09: Essential Questions: How have Americans expressed their discontent with government and how has the American government responded?
Bellwork: Are the clothes the we choose to wear important? Why or why not?
Place your Major Grade work in your folder.

2. Homework due on Thursday: Join or Die cartoon analysis

3. Sons of Liberty: Objectives
What was the SL’s response to the Stamp Act?
Identify the purpose of Tar and Feathering
Were the Sons of Liberty terrorists or patriots?

4. The Sons of Liberty are best known for the Boston Tea Party
How have Americans expressed their discontent with government policy? How has American government responded to insurrections?
The Sons of Liberty
The Sons of Liberty were a secret organization of American “Patriots” who wanted to resist the British Crown with acts of protest, and were often involved in mob violence
The Sons of Liberty are best known for the Boston Tea Party

5. Tar and Feathering Started with Richard the Lion Hearted
Not used extensively until Sons of Liberty
Not typically fatal, but extremely uncomfortable
Applying the burning hot tar to bare skin usually caused painful blistering and efforts to remove it often made the condition worse.
The adding of feathers which stuck to the tar added to the humiliation and made the victim a comical figure.
Sometimes tar was applied to the clothing, and was only a minor warning.

6. Tar and Feathering
In the spring of 1766 Captain William Smith came under suspicion as an informer of American smuggling activities.
He experienced first hand the tar and feather. In retribution, John Gilchrist, a Norfolk merchant and shipbuilder and several accomplices captured Smith and, as he reported, "dawbed my body and face all over with tar and afterwards threw feathers on me."
Smith's assailants, which included the mayor of Norfolk, then carted him "through every street in town," and threw him into the sea.
Fortunately, Smith was rescued by a passing boat just as he was "sinking, being able to swim no longer."
This may have been the first tarring and feathering in America.

7. Tar and Feathering
Video

8. Tar and Feathering What should I remember?
it persisted as a way to intimidate and punish loyalists (people who remained loyal to Britain).

9. Boston Tea Party Objectives
Why were colonists mad about paying less money for their tea?
Why did they dress as Indians?
What was the British Response?

10. Boston Tea Party
Boston Tea Party Video

11. Boston Tea Party Objectives
Why were colonists mad about paying less money for their tea?
They did not want the British companies to have monopolies
They did not want to pay the taxes
Why did they dress as Indians?
They didn’t want the British to know it was actual the Sons of Liberty
They thought the British would retaliate against the Indians instead of the Sons of Liberty

12. Boston Tea Party Objectives
What was the British Response?
The British took away liberties (freedoms) from the colonists

13. How have Americans expressed their discontent with government policy
How have Americans expressed their discontent with government policy? How has American government responded to insurrections?
The Boston Tea Party
Today there is a political party called The Boston Tea Party (est. 2006)
The Boston Tea Party supports reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and opposes increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose. 13

14. 1st Continental Congress Objectives
What was it?
What did they want?
What did they NOT want?
What was America’s response?
Video

15. 1st Continental Congress Objectives
What was it?
“I am not a Virginian, but an American”.
This was the first time the leaders of the colonies voiced that they should be American.
GA is the only colony that did not participate. Why not?
What did they want?
They wanted to fix the wrongs they thought Britain had done to them
What did they NOT want?
Independence
What was America’s response?

16. Lexington & Concord Objectives
Identify the role of the minutemen
Explain the role of the rider
Who do you think was most likely responsible for firing first at Lexington & Concord
Compare the military engagements at Lexington & Concord
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