Transcript Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Sons and Daughters of Liberty
• The Sons of Liberty were a
group of patriots who formed
a rebellion against England.
• They told colonists to boycott
taxed goods.
• The Sons of Liberty created
meetings to plan attacks
against the British.
• The Daughters of Liberty also
helped by telling colonists to
drink something else besides
tea or they created their own
tea from green leaves, some
colonists drank coffee
• The Daughters of Liberty
sewn their own clothing
instead of buying them
THE ROYAL PROCLAMATION OF 1763
• PROCLAMATION OF
1763
With the French defeat
many colonists eagerly
prepared to move across
the Appalchian mountains
to stop the Ottawa chief
from the great lakes.
It saved land west of the
Appalachians for Indians.
Also didn’t alow the
colonists to move west of
the Appalchian Mountians
Stamp Act
• 1765
• Since King George spent so
much money on the French
and Indian war, he was broke.
He decided to tax the
colonists.
• He taxed them on all printed
materials. The printed
materials all had to have a
British stamps.
• The colonists reacted in
creating riots. They pretended
to hang British soldiers.
• At the end this act got
repealed.
The Quartering Act
• The Quartering Act was enforced in
1765.
• Colonist were forced to let British
soldiers live in their homes.
• They were forced to provide food,
beds, blankets, and even their own
homes.
• If the colonists refused they would go
to jail.
• British soldiers would usually be
harsh to the owners of the house and
would force them to give more of
everything to the housed solders
British solders being harsh to the
owners of the house
Townshend act of 1767
TEA
PAPER
LEAD
GLASS
• 1767
• Parliament tried 3 times
to tax the colonists.
• The colonist boycotted
British goods.
• Parliament repealed all
the taxes except the tax
on tea.
THE BOSTON MASSACRE!!
• The year of 1770
• One day, a group of
angry colonists came to
the British soldiers
because the British taxed
the colonists for tea,
glass, paper, and lead.
The colonists then threw
snowballs at the British
soldiers. The soldiers
were very angry and
fired! Five Americans
died and the rest were
injured.
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The Tea Act
• The Tea Act happened in
1773.
• They blocked ships and
stopped people from
unloading tea.
• Smugglers were very
happy about this, they
smuggled illegal tea
whenever they had a
chance.
• The British East India
Company was going broke
so they taxed the tea.
The Boston Tea Party
• December,1773
• The women made out of
rasberries and called it
freedom tea
• The Sons of dressed up as
Mohawk Indians and
dumped 342 crates of tea
into the Boston Harbor.
• They were protesting “no
taxation with out
representation”
• British East India
company was broke
The Intolerable Acts
• This act occurred in 1773
• This event was when
parliament passed laws like
the Quatering acts, no
town meetings without
permission and they closed
the Boston harbor.
• The colonists responded by
voting to stop all trade
with Britain.
• This new act united the
colonists. It was the last
step to the road of the war.
Picture of the colonists uniting
The First...
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS!!!
• It was held in September
of 1774 in Philadelphia.
• Discussed about new laws.
• Georgia was the only
colony who didn’t send
anyone to Philadelphia.
• Also, they talked about
what to do about the
Intolerable Acts.
The Second… CONTINENTAL
CONGRESS!!!
• It was held in May of
1775.
• The representatives
talked about
strengthening the
militias into a real
Continental Army.
• They talked about
following the king’s
rules peacefully and
stopping all the fighting.