TAX--ACT | DID | PASSED | RESULT |
Navigation | Put restrictions on the Colonies trading with other countries | 1651 | * Tariffs on exports; buy English Ships if used for trade; Sell top end goods to England only |
Sugar | Tax on importing molasses & other food products | 1764 | * Smugglers brought in cheaper stuff |
Quartering | Colonists had to house & feed British troops | 1765 | * Colonists said it violated civil rights |
Stamp | Tax on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles | 1765 | * repealed in 1766; Parliament passed Declaratory Act - Parliament has total over the Colonies |
Townshend | England will only tax imports to America, not exports from America | 1767 | * England could search Colonists stuff without telling why |
Tea Act | Lowered price of Tea | 1773 | * Monopoly; Boston Tea Party 1773 |
Intolerable | Four laws passed by Parliament Includes Quebec Act | 1774 | * First Continental Congress * land between Ohio & Missouri Rivers is part of Canada; blocked colonies from moving west |
Quebec Act | Was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. | 1774 | * It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. |
5.1 Trouble on the Frontier
Europe went to India & China for many of their spices & tea
Columbus
sailed west
Hoping to
Find India
Or China
Land Route
Water
Routes
SALT
PETRE
used to preserve meat & is found in
toothpaste
for sensitive teeth.
It is also used to make fireworks, explosives,
matches & fertilizers
TEA
There were two main competing companies who controlled
selling the spices of India & China.
British East India Company
Dutch East India Company
was formed by the Netherlands
was formed by England
TAX--ACT | DID | PASSED | RESULT |
Navigation | Put restrictions on the Colonies trading with other countries | 1651 | * 1) Buy English Ships; 2) Sell Cash Crops to England only; 3) tax imports & Exports |
Sugar | Tax on importing molasses & other food products | 1764 | * Smugglers brought in cheaper stuff |
Quartering | Colonists had to house & feed British troops | 1765 | * Colonists said it violated civil rights |
Stamp | Tax on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles | 1765 | * repealed in 1766; Parliament passed Declaratory Act - Parliament has total over the Colonies |
Townshend | England will only tax imports to America, not exports from America | 1767 | * England could search Colonists stuff without telling why |
Tea Act | Lowered price of Tea | 1773 | * Monopoly; Boston Tea Party 1763 |
Intolerable | Four laws passed by Parliament Includes Quebec Act | 1774 | * First Continental Congress * land between Ohio & Missouri Rivers is part of Canada; blocked colonies from moving west |
Quebec Act | Was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. | 1774 | * It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. |
(not buy)
3) What did they do?
2) Who was involved?
4) Who did they try to blame?
2) The Sons of Liberty
3) Threw tea overboard
4) Native Americans
5) Why was it important leading
up to the Revolutionary War?
5) It fueled more tension
between Britain &
America.
$1.00 a gallon
$2.49 a gallon
MONOPOLY
control of the supply of or
trade in an item or service
England was trying to get a monopoly on the tea market by lowering the price of their Tea & driving other tea companies out of business.
In December 1773, three ships with tea from the British East
India Company arrived in Boston Harbor
Members of the ‘Sons of Liberty’ demanded
that the ships leave
The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization that was created in the Thirteen American Colonies to fight
taxation by the British government.
2) Who was involved?
2) The Sons of Liberty
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
On December 16, 1773, at 7:00pm, 116 members of the Sons of Liberty threw 342 cases of tea (@90,000 lbs) overboard in @ 3 hours. This would be worth about $1,000,000.00 today.
3) What did they do?
3) Threw tea overboard
Many of the Sons of Liberty dressed as Mohawk Native Americans in order to throw suspicion on them & away from the Sons of Liberty. It did not work; no reason for the Native Americans to throw the tea overboard.
4) Who did they try to blame?
4) Native Americans
King George III of England & Parliament were pretty mad at
the colonists of Boston for the ‘Boston Tea Party’ & passed 4 laws to punish the Colonists for doing th
Boston Tea Party called the ‘Intolerable Acts’.
5) Why was it important leading
up to the Revolutionary War?
5) It fueled more tension
with Britain & America.
TAX--ACT | DID | PASSED | RESULT |
Navigation | Put restrictions on the Colonies trading with other countries | 1651 | * 1) Buy English Ships; 2) Sell Cash Crops to England only; 3) tax imports & Exports |
Sugar | Tax on importing molasses & other food products | 1764 | * Smugglers brought in cheaper stuff |
Quartering | Colonists had to house & feed British troops | 1765 | * Colonists said it violated civil rights |
Stamp | Tax on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles | 1765 | * repealed in 1766; Parliament passed Declaratory Act - Parliament has total over the Colonies |
Townshend | England will only tax imports to America, not exports from America | 1767 | * England could search Colonists stuff without telling why |
Tea Act | Lowered price of Tea | 1773 | * Monopoly; Boston Tea Party 1763 |
Intolerable | Four laws passed by Parliament Includes Quebec Act | 1774 | * First Continental Congress * land between Ohio & Missouri Rivers is part of Canada; blocked colonies from moving west |
Quebec Act | Was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. | 1774 | * It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. |
To Punish the Colonists for the Boston Tea Party,
Parliament actually passed several laws. These became known as the ‘Coercive’ or ‘Intolerable Acts’
Food & supplies from the other colonies poured in to help
the people of Boston.
After the Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament
follow the Boston Tea Party, the First Continental
Congress met in Philadelphia, PA, in 1774
The First Continental Congress demanded that
Parliament repeal the Intolerable Acts & that the colonies
had the right to tax & govern themselves.
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
TAX--ACT | DID | PASSED | RESULT |
Navigation | Put restrictions on the Colonies trading with other countries | 1651 | * 1) Buy English Ships; 2) Sell Cash Crops to England only; 3) tax imports & Exports |
Sugar | Tax on importing molasses & other food products | 1764 | * Smugglers brought in cheaper stuff |
Quartering | Colonists had to house & feed British troops | 1765 | * Colonists said it violated civil rights |
Stamp | Tax on newspapers, wills, licenses, insurance policies, land titles | 1765 | * repealed in 1766; Parliament passed Declaratory Act - Parliament has total over the Colonies |
Townshend | England will only tax imports to America, not exports from America | 1767 | * England could search Colonists stuff without telling why |
Tea Act | Lowered price of Tea | 1773 | * Monopoly; Boston Tea Party 1763 |
Intolerable | Four laws passed by Parliament Includes Quebec Act | 1774 | * First Continental Congress * land between Ohio & Missouri Rivers is part of Canada; blocked colonies from moving west |
Quebec Act | Was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain setting procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec. | 1774 | * It gave the French Canadians complete religious freedom and restored the French form of civil law. |
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ILL
MI
IN
OH
Why did England pass the Quebec Act, giving land back to
Canadians?
It was another way to help prevent Colonists from moving west.
The ‘Shot Heard Round the World’ Project
20 Quiz Points Total
10 pts for answering the questions correctly.
10 pts for following directions.
the top of the first page. Put a rectangular box around your name.
a. Ellis Island Assignment b. Edpuzzle c. Quizlet
13 Colonies Growing to Shot Heard Round the World
The Minutemen were regular people - farmers, store owners,
etc, who would be ready to drop everything & fight at a
minute’s notice.
Each Colony had their own organized Minute Men or ‘Militia’.
Sort of like the National Guard of today; regular people ready
to serve. Also, had their own weapons
In Boston, England had British Soldiers stationed there since
the Boston Tea Party to keep order
The British Soldiers heard Massachusetts Minutemen were storing weapons in an Armory about 20 minutes away from
in two towns named Lexington & Concord
5.1 Trouble of the Frontier
Massachusetts
By Land: the British Soldiers could cross a narrow stretch of land & march on a road all the way to Lexington & Concord. It was longer to go this route
By Sea
By Sea: was shorter distance but it would take longer because they would have to load weapons-soldiers into boats to cross the Charles River
Old North Church
Charles River
Charleston
Bunker Hill
Army
By Land
By Sea
What were the advantages-disadvantages of each?
| LAND | SEA |
ADVANTAGE | Easier to transport guns, ammo, cannons | Shorter route to Concord; Get there sooner |
DISADVANTAGE | Longer route to get to Concord; get there later | Harder to load guns, ammo, cannons on small boats |
The British Soldiers were going to go to Lexington & Concord & take the weapons; the Colonists had a system to warn the Minutemen the British Soldiers would be coming
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
“One if by land, two if by sea”
The
Old North
Church
in Boston
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
By Sea
By Land
And the winner is...
Army
So the British Army crossed the Charlestown River (By Sea) & marched
20 miles to Lexington
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
William
Dawes
Dr. Sam Prescott
Paul Revere
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
Legend has it that Paul Revere rode his horse yelling:
“The British are Coming; The British are Coming”
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
“The Regulars are Coming; The Regulars are Coming”
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
Why? Because the Colonists & English Soldiers were all considered to be British; ‘Regulars’ meant regular British
Soldiers who were stationed in Boston.
Army
Revere, Dawes, & Prescott were captured by British soldiers
Army
Dawes & Prescott escaped to warn Lexington & Concord
Army
Left without a horse, Revere had to walk to Lexington
Fortunately, thanks to a rather elaborate colonial intelligence network, led by the Sons of Liberty, the Patriots were aware that their supplies were at risk, and were able to move them to different locations long before the British began to move.
Concord Armory
Concord, MA
Waiting for the 600-800 British Soldiers at Lexington were
@70 Colonial Minutemen
British Army
Colonial
Minutemen
LOBSTERBACKS-REDCOATS
COLONIAL MINUTEMEN
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were
fired at dawn near Lexington
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
No one knows to this day who fired the first shot
8 colonists were killed
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
The Colonial Militia regrouped & retreated on the
North Bridge in Concord 5 miles from Lexington
Battle
Of
Concord
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
THE OLD NORTH BRIDGE AT CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
FIGHTING AT CONCORD - 3 British Soldiers are killed
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
The British Soldiers decide to retreat back to Boston
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
BRITISH SOLDIERS - 300 DIE ON THE WAY BACK To
BOSTON DUE TO GUERILLA FIGHTING BY THE COLONISTS
Once the British Army got back to Boston, the Colonial Minutemen blocked off the land & river exits to the mainland
(‘Siege’ is blocking off all routes to & from somewhere).
British
Army
Minutemen
Minutemen
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
Why the Battle at Lexington & Concord is important:
The Shot Heard Around the World
The importance of these battles is that they were the first
battles of the Revolutionary War.
These battles happened in April of 1775, before we declared our ‘Declaration of Independence’ over a year
later on July 4th, 1776.
5.3 From Protest to Rebellion
WHY IS IT CALLED
A phrase from a poem in 1837 called ‘Concord Hymm’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson about the Battle of Lexington and Concord. Emerson's words read, “Here once the embattled farmers stood / And fired the shot heard round the world.”
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, CONCORD HYMN
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set today a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
“One if by land, two if by Sea”
“The Regulars
are Coming!”
“The Shot Heard Round the World”
Lexington
Concord
?
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