imagine that you are running errands and stop to buy a newspaper. when you buy the newspaper you...
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The Road to Revolution
Imagine… Imagine that you are
running errands and stop to buy a newspaper. When you buy the newspaper you have to pay extra money for it. The extra money is going all the way across the ocean to England. Once you have paid for your newspaper, a special stamp is put on it to prove that you paid for it. How would you feel?
In 1765 England needed to make in order to pay for the troops they had sent to the colonies and for a war
They decided they would put a tax on some items that colonists had to pay for like:
playing cardslegal documentsnewspapers
The Stamp Act
The Colonists Get Angry! The Sons of Liberty A group of colonists who
organized protests against the British government. One member, Samuel Adams, wrote newspaper articles against the Stamp Act.
Colonists from 9 colonies met together and demanded that England repeal (cancel) the Stamp Act. One year later, in 1765, England repealed it.
In 1767 England passed the Townshend Acts. The Townshend Acts said that the colonists would have to pay a tax on goods imported from England!
Taxes On:
tea glass paper lead paint
More Trouble…
Can you believe these
taxes? I can’t
believe the King is doing
this!
I know! Did you
hear that all the
colonists in Boston
have decided to boycott all the taxed
goods!
What do you think the word boycott means?
The Daughters of Liberty were a group of women who got together to help support the
boycott.These women held “spinning bees.” What do you
think a “spinning bee” was?
The Daughters of Liberty
A “spinning bee” was when the
women would get together to spin
thread so that they would not have to
import clothes from England.
Many women also
gave up something
very special…
tea!
The King got very angry with the colonists in Boston!
In October of 1768 he decided to send British troops to the city to control them.
Children yelled out at British troops as they patrolled the streets and some
even threw snowballs at them!
LOBSTERS!
Why do you
think they
called them
lobsters?
On March 5, 1770 outside the Customs House in Boston, a large group of colonists met near a group of British soldiers. Crispus Attucks, a former slave yelled out in the crowd.
There was a great deal of confusion and shots
were fired.
The Boston Massacre
“The way to get rid of
these soldiers is to
attack the main
guard.”
What do you think
happened?
5 colonists were killed, including Crispus Attucks.
The soldiers were arrested. A lawyer, John Adams, defended the British soldiers.
Why would John Adams
have defended
these men?
The Committees of Correspondence
In October of 1772 Sam Adams presented the idea of creating a committee to “state the rights of the colonists.”
By 1774 all of the colonies, except Pennsylvania, had formed Committees of Correspondence.
What do you think the
word correspondence means?
Why do you think the colonists needed to
correspond with each
other?
It was a quiet December night when a group of colonists, dressed as Native Americans, boarded a ship in Boston Harbor. One colonist called out:
“Boston Harbor
will be a teapot
tonight!”
What do you think this
colonist meant?
Look at this picture. What do you think they are doing and why? Why do you think they are dressed as
Native Americans?
King George III became very angry with the
colonists of Boston. He believed that they
needed to be punished for their actions!
How do you think he punished
them?
The King decided that:
The port of Boston would be closed until the colonists paid for the tea
Town meetings were bannedColonists had to let British soldiers live in
their homes and they had to feed them
The Intolerable Acts
How would you feel if you were a
colonist living in Boston?