Notes from Board ~ Oct.26

• 1763-1775 ~ The Road to the Revolution
• 1774 ~ Philadelphia
• 1st continental congress represent American interest / challenge British control
• John Adams
• Sam Adams
• John Jay
• George Washington
• Patrick Henry
• Richard Henry Lee
• April 18, 1775 ~ Lexington & Concord
• British took seize and destroy arms in Concord 
• also to find Sam Adams and John Hancock 
• Battle of Lexington & Concord
• Americans fire at British when the British march by Boston
• 174 wounded
• 73 dead
• Fort Ticonderoga 
• Benedict Arnold, Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys
• Bunker Hill
• "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!"
• 1000 British casualties
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Amanda, KC, & Zack notes on pages 136-139

• 1768
• Parliament sent troops to Boston to keep the colonists from rebellion 
• March 5th, 1770
• Boston Massacre
• Tension peaked between soldiers and colonists
• Colonists broke out in a RAMPAGE!
• Soldiers fought back and 5 colonists ended up dead
• Propaganda
• Information designed to influence opinion
• Boston massacre lead to more boycotting
• Parliament repealed all of the Townshend Acts except the ones on tea
• 1772
• Sam Adams revived The Boston Committee of Correspondence 
• An organization used in earlier protests
• Tea Acts of 1773
• Gave the East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying taxes
• Made their tea the cheapest tea in colonies
• In Boston and Philadelphia colonists vowed to stop tea ships from unloading
• December 16, 1773 ~ Boston Tea Party
• Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk natives, threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
• 1774
• Coercive Acts were passed to punish Bostonians for their resistance
• The Coercive Acts closed the Boston Harbor until they paid for all the tea they 'brewed' in the harbor
• Intolerable Acts allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonial houses against the will of the colonists
• Quebec Acts gave French Catholics religious freedom

PG 135 Questions

1. The Colonists were desperate for new revenue, the king and Parliament thought it was only fair that the colonists pay part of the cost.
1. Writs of assistance were legal documents that allowed officers to enter any location to search for smuggled goods. 
2. The Virginia assembly passed a resolution declaring that they were the only ones with the right to lay taxes.
3. Effigies were rag dolls that represented unpopular tax collectors. 
4. The colonists urged merchants to boycott British and European goods.
5. Thousands of merchants, farmers, and artisans signed nonimportation agreements.
6. In March 1766, Parliament repealed the Stamp Act. 
2. The colonists were not allowed to spread west. 
1. Taxes upon them, without their agreement
3. They believed that their rights were being violated. The Writs of assistance overstepped the boundaries. 
4. To try and repay the huge war debt, the British decided to tax the colonists. This challenged the independent attitude that had been growing in America and the idea of a colonial government.
5. Sugar Act --> Believed their rights as Englishmen were being violated
1. Stamp Act --> Convinced many colonists of the need for action.
1. Opposition to the Stamp Act centered on two things
1. Parliament ha interfered in colonial affairs by taxing the colonists without their consent
2. In passing the Stamp Act without consulting the colonial legislatures, Parliament ignored colonial tradition of self-government