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New British
Laws/Taxes
Huge National Debt to
pay off:
10,000 NOW stationed
in America
British thought
Colonists should pay
for the Protection
Sugar Act:
New British
Laws/Taxes
Sugar was used to
sweeten tea and create
rum
Tax on Sugar to make
money
Taxes =
increase in price of
sugar and rum
A Breach of English
Rights?
“No Taxation without
Direct Representation”
New British
Laws/Taxes
The Stamp Act – 1765
All official documents
required to have a
stamp on it – a stamp
that was paid for
Affected Middle Class
Artisans & merchants
Literate and involved
Caused Major
Demonstrations!
New British
Laws/Taxes
The Stamp Act Congress
October 1765: 9 colonies sent delegates to NYC
Petitioned the King to Remove the Tax
The Colonial Boycott:
Boycott of all British Goods
Successful: Stamp Act repealed
Parliament Stated they had the RIGHT to tax
New British
Laws/Taxes
The Quartering Act:
1765: Colonists had to
provide living
arrangements for
British Soldiers
In their homes or
barracks
New British
Laws/Taxes
Townshend Act:
1767: Taxed goods FROM GB
Writs of Assistance:
Allowed GB to search homes for smuggled goods
without a warrant
Right to privacy in ones home is cherished
COLONISTS ANGRY!!! COLONISTS SMASH!!!
Act Repealed except for Tax on Tea!
Boston Massacre
British troops in Boston were BIG RED SYMBOLS of
BRITISH RULE!
Unskilled labor hated them:
British Troops 2nd Jobs
Would take jobs from Colonists
Boston Massacre
March 1770:
Mob formed outside customs house
Mob threw snowballs at the Guards outside
Someone yelled “fire” and the British soldiers fired
into the crowd
5 people died
Sons of Liberty played up the attack
Historical Bias? Paul Revere’s Engraving
Boston Massacre
Soldiers on Trial for Murder
Defended by John Adams
All soldiers released except for 2
Served Light sentences
British soldiers were removed from Boston to the
countryside
The Boston Tea Party
Dec 16,1773:
3 east India tea ships
in Boston Harbor
Samuel Adams +70
Sons of Liberty
boarded the ships and
sent $1 million in tea
overboard
Hundreds watched
The Coercive Acts
1774: Parliament response to Tea Party
Closed Port of Boston
GB brought in more troops and strict Gov. until tea
was repaid
Sons of Liberty renamed it “Intolerable Acts”
Historical Bias?
First Continental
Congress
Intolerable Acts further unified the Colonists
1774: First Continental Congress met in Philly
1. Agreed parliament had too much control
3. Agreed to a non-importation Agreement
4. “Minutemen” formed
King George III wants Mass. Under Control!
Tells Gen. Thomas Gage to handle it!
Hostilities Begin
April 18, 1775 700 British Troops to
Concord Mass.
Secure Colonial
Supplies and arrest
Leaders
Spreading the Alarm:
Paul Revere and 20+
riders inform the
Minute Men in Mass.
Hostilities Begin
Lexington:
70 Minutemen met at Lexington to stop the British
70 Colonists vs. 700 British
“Shot Heard ‘round the World”
8 Colonial Casualties – Colonists lose
The British continued on the Concord
OPEN CONFLICT HAS BEGUN!
Hostilities Begin
Concord:
Hundreds of Minutemen there
Concord supplies/ leaders moved
Both sides exchanged shots
The British retreated back to Boston
Militiamen fired on Redcoats all the way back to
Boston
Surrounded British in Boston
John Adams vs. Samuel
Adams
Battle of Two Styles of Protest!!
COUSIN vs. COUSIN!
LETS DO THIS!
Born in 1735
Father
John Adams
Involved in Politics
Puritan Deacon
Adams family was on the Mayflower
Rise to Prominence:
Stamp Act of 1765
Wrote and Published on Enlightenment ideas and Stamp
Act legality
Wrote “Braintree Instructions” in defense of colonial
rights against Parliament aggression
Defended the 8 British soldiers of the Boston Massacre –
And Won
John Adams
Philosophy:
Enlightened Thinker
Believer in Republican Government
“Rule by People AND by LAW”
Huge supporter of the RULE OF LAW
Law and Facts do not change – men do
Supporter of Bicameral Legislature and Separation of
Powers
THE PATRIOT BY PEN!
Trial of the Boston massacre soldiers in “John Adams”
Samuel Adams
Born 1722
Family leading figure in local Politics
Mass. House of Reps.
1748: Began a local Newspaper that criticized British Rule
Became a very popular man among the common people
Involved in Sugar Act Protest
Sam Adams
1748:
Began a local Newspaper
Criticized British Rule
Became a very popular man among the common
people
Sugar Act Protest
Involved in Protest – led many
1765: Helped Found the “Sons of Liberty” of Boston
Group of Middle class Boston residents who opposed
British Authority
Sons of Liberty
Tactics:
Boycotts
Effigy Burnings
Mob Intimidation
Tar and Feather
1773: Boston Tea Party
SAM ADAMS: LEADER OF THE SONS – THE
PATRIOT’S MUSKET
Tar and Feather example from “John Adams”