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Organizing Principle:

Unit Title: The American Revolution

AR 1

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11/2/11 Colonial Unrest AR2-3

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Classroom Classroom ExperienceExperience Historical ConnectionHistorical Connection

*Principal decided to charge students 10 cents per page for photocopied materials to relieve school financial problems.

* British government passed * British government passed various laws such as the Stamp various laws such as the Stamp Act, to help pay debts from the Act, to help pay debts from the French and Indian War.French and Indian War.

*Students were not consulted about the new policy.

* Colonists had no Representation in Parliament.

*Students were outraged by the new policy; some refused to pay the fee

* Many colonists thought “Taxation Without Representation” was unfair and boycotted & protested.

*Some students paid the fee * Some colonists feared punishment

What caused the What caused the French and French and Indian War?Indian War?

Colonists and French competing for their share of the Beaver Fur from the Ohio Valley

(1756 – 1763)

TREATY OF PARIS 1763

French and Indian War- French and Indians vs. British- Cause: Colonists crossing into Ohio River Valley to trap beavers for their fur.- Effect: British gained land west of the Appalachian mountains, but were in serious debt because of the war.

Domino #1

Britain and the colonies had good relations prior to 1763.

Right of the colonists to govern themselves.

British government left the colonies alone.

Colonies far away from Great Britain.

Navigation Acts – required the colonists to use English ships for all traded goods.

DOMINO #2DOMINO #2Proclamation of Proclamation of

176317631. Closed off the frontier

to colonial expansion.2. Drew an imaginary line

along the Appalachian Mts., which did not allow colonists to move west of it.

British impose new laws after the French and Indian War

Stamp Act – A tax on all printed goods

Proclamation of 1763 – no expansion past the Appalachian Mts.

Quartering Act – colonists forced to house and feed soldiers

Colonists protest by ignoring laws, petitioning, & boycotting

STAMP ACT

Colonial Parody of Stamp

Charles Townshend

“Champagne Charlie”

Colonists boycott – refuse to buy – British goods

Indirect Taxes imposed on lead, paper, paint, and tea. Tax taken at seaport.

Women participate in boycott

Charles Townshend

DOMINO #3

Unfair Taxes

-Stamp Act

-Townshend Acts

British troops in Boston

Patriot mob antagonizesthe troops.

British troops fire on Bostonian colonists.5 died.

Paul Revere’s version of the eventsof March 5, 1770

The building above the British soldiers is referred to as

“Butcher’s Hall”. It was actually the Customs House.

All the soldiers are being ordered to fire at the same time. In reality the crowd was

yelling “fire” and the British soldiers thought the order came from their commander.

The colonists are shown unarmed. In reality they carried clubs and were throwing rocks at the

soldiers.

Even if the events portrayed in this picture don’t pull at your heart strings, we (the colonists) have a little dog on our side.

Awwww

Site of Boston Massacre

Memorial for slain colonists

DOMINO # 4

Boston Massacre

Colonists forced to buy tea from the British East India Company

Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor

John Adams celebrating the Boston Tea Party

DOMINO #5 – Tea Act

DOMINO #6 – Boston Tea Party

The Bostonians Paying the Excise-Man, 1774 British propaganda print referring to the tarring and feathering of Boston Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm four weeks after the Boston Tea Party. The men also shove tea down Malcolm's throat.

Britain punishes Boston with several harsh laws.

Loyalists believe Bostonians have gone too far.

Letter from the First Continental Congress to King George III

Intolerable Acts1. Boston’s ports are completely closed2. Boston under military rule3. All town meetings and gov. activities are suspended

DOMINO # 7

Intolerable Acts

Exports & Imports: 1768-Exports & Imports: 1768-17831783

First ContinentalFirst Continental CongressCongress17741774

• In September of 1774 delegates from every colony except for Georgia met in Philadelphia to discuss the colonial response to the Intolerable Acts.

• This meeting set the stage for the Second Continental Congress which would break ties with Britain..

Before ending their meeting, the First Continental Congress had John Dickinson draft a petition to King George III asserting their loyalty to the crown.

Independence Hall Philadelphia, PA

Domino #8

First Continental Congress (1774)

- 12 of the 13 colonies met to discuss British actions

- Olive Branch Petition – last chance of colonists to try to make peace with King George III

- Militias were formed – groups of citizen soldiers- “Minute Men” – citizens who had to be ready to

fight in a “minute’s” notice

King George III

British consider stronger action; sending troops into Boston to pacify the rebellion.

Paul Revere and William Dawes warn the colonists about the impending attack.

Running Male Student

•“The Shots Heard Around the World”• To this day, no one knows who fired the first shot at Lexington GreenVideo - Andy Griffith

DOMINO #9 – Lexington and Concord (1775)

Domino #10

Second Continental Congress

- George Washington was named the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army (1775)

Domino #11Battle of Bunker Hill (June 16, 1775)- By this point, assembled militias in the colonies

were 20,000 strong- Reality – took place on Breed’s Hill- Colonel William Prescott commanded the militia- Dug ditches at the top of Breed’s Hill- Colonists won 2 charges and sent the British

retreating- In the end, they lost the last charge because

they ran out of gun powder.- British realized defeating the colonists would not

be easy

Bunker Hill (June, 1775)Bunker Hill (June, 1775)

The British suffered over 40% casualties.

Domino #12

Declaration of Independence

- July 4, 1776- Some signed on July 2nd.

King George’s Journal on July 4, 1776 :“Nothing of importance happened today…”

Patriot mob destroying symbol of monarchy following thereading of the Declaration of Independence to the Continentalarmy in New York July 9, 1776.