Going over the answers to your notes Guide To Reading Notes 5
Dec 22, 2014
Going over the answers to your notes
Guide To Reading Notes 5
In Metaphor In History
Students happily playing basketball
Student Council Minutes
No adults allowed
Principal’s office away from Britain
Britain and colonies have good relations prior to 1763 because colonists are allowed to govern themselves
Colonial assemblies make their own laws
British government left students alone
Colonies far away from Britain
5:2 Before 1763
5.3 Early British ActionsIn Metaphor In History
New Rules
Half-court
Pay to use
Students funds will pay supervisors
Student’s anger
Proclamation of 1763
Colonists may not cross the Appalachian Mountains to settle.
Stamp Act – Colonists would have to pay a tax on items that are stamped, such as paper, newspapers, wills, licenses, and playing cards
Quartering Act – Colonists are forced to house and take care of British soldiers in their own homes
Colonists protest by ignoring laws, petitioning, and rioting
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Man staffing the stand
Sign reading “Equipment Rental”
Male student yelling friends not to use basketballs
Female student walking away
Charles Townshend
Taxes imposed on everyday items (glass, paint, paper and tea) by Townshend Acts
Sons of Liberty boycott of British goods
Daughters of Liberty helped the boycott by making items at home
5.4 The Townshend Acts
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Vice principal and security guard
Protesting students
Vice principal’s threat to suspend
British troops in Boston
Patriot mob yells and teases the soldiers
Captain tries to get people to go home. But British fire upon the crowd. Five colonists are killed. This event was used as propaganda to raise the colonists’ emotions against the British. This event became known as “The Boston Massacre.”
5.5 The Boston Massacre
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Sign reading “Cafeteria food only”
Male student throwing lunch into trash
Male student cheering in the background
Colonists forced to buy tea from British East India Company
Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston Harbor
John Adams celebrating the Boston Tea Party
5.6 The Boston Tea Party
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Students given detention
Female student angry at male student
Protest letters
Britain punishes Bostonians with several harsh laws: 1. Closed Boston Harbor 2. government of Boston under British control – no town meetings 3. British soldiers who were accused of murder would be tried in England not in the colonies 4. More troops sent to Boston
Loyalists believe Bostonians have gone too far
Letter from First Continental Congress to King George – Olive Branch Petition – urged the king to consider their complaints and to recognize their rights
5.7 The Intolerable Acts
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Principal
Principal’s statement
Running female student
King George
British consider stronger action, such as sending troops into Boston, to stop the rebellion
Paul Revere and William Dawes warn colonists of the impending attack
5.8 Lexington and Concord