I' Parliament Passes Tea Act 1773

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• I. Parliament Passes Tea Act- 1773
• A. The boycott on tea was making the British
  East India Company lose money.
• B. Parliament cuts out middleman to make tea
  cheaper to convince colonists to buy it.
• C. However, colonists continued to boycott
  because there was still a tax.
• D. Colonists started drinking Liberty Tea

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• II. Boston Tea Party
• A. Sam Adams and the Sons of Liberty sent a
  message to the governor of Massachusetts,
  demanding that British ships carrying tea leave
  the harbor.
• B. When they refused, dressed like Mohawk
  Indians, colonists stormed the ships, split open
  the chests, and dumped tea into the harbor under
  the full moon.

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• III. Britain Strikes Back
• A. The Intolerable Acts
• 1. Parliament shut down the port of Boston- no
  ship could
• enter or leave the harbor
• 2. Town meetings could only be held once a year
  without
• governors permission

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• 3. It also included the Quartering Act- British
  soldiers could force citizens to house troops in
  their homes.

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• IV. The First Continental Congress- September
  1774
• A. Colonial leaders from 12 colonies call a
  meeting in Philadelphia
• B. Colonists agree to back Massachusetts and
  boycott all British goods until Intolerable Acts
  were repealed.
• C. Each colony also set up its own militia (army
  of civilians)

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• V. Lexington and Concord
• A. In Massachusetts, minutemen trained regularly
  in preparation to fight
• B. British troops left Boston to go to Concord,
  because they heard that the minutemen were
  storing arms there.

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• C. At Lexington, minutemen confronted the British
  troops and lost a small battle
• D. At Concord, minutemen forced the British to
  retreat and killed 73 men