Critical Thinking Question

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Critical Thinking Question

• If America was to revolt against its government
  today, what would be Americas breaking point?
  What pivotal event would cause Americans to say,
  I have had enough, I give up on my own
  government and I want a new one.

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Colonial Resistance Grows

• Pamphlet Project 2

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Townshend Acts are Passed

• Colonists protest and refuse to abide by the
  Stamp act and the Quartering Act
• Britain passed the Townshend Act
• Suspended New Yorks assembly
• Import Taxes glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea

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Reasons for Protest

• Suspension of elected Assembly
• British officers searching colonists homes
• Read on page 148

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Tools of Protest

• Sons of Liberty and Daughters of Liberty
• Boycotted British goods made their own cloths
  and goods
• Riot broke out in Boston
• Samuel Adams Declared, We will destroy every
  soldier that dares put his foot on shore . . . I
  look upon them as foreign enemies.

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The Boston Massacre

• British soldiers were poorly paid
• British soldiers living in Boston would work for
  Boston factories for lower wages than the
  colonists
• The colonists, many kids, were throwing rocks at
  the soldiers and calling the soldiers names
• A few of the soldiers opened fire and killed 4
  colonists

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The Boston Massacre

• Redcoats (British soldiers) were arrested for
  murder
• John Adams, (Samuel Adams cousin) defended them,
  and argued it was self defense the jury agreed

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The Tea Act

• After the boycotts Parliament repealed the
  Townshend Acts repealed all taxes except the
  tea tax
• 3 Years later they passed the Tea Act
• Only the British East India Company was allowed
  to sell tea gave them a monopoly
• Colonist who were drinking smuggled tea, could no
  longer do so

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Critical Thinking Journals

• Draw pictures for the following words
• Boycott
• Treason
• Boston Massacre

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The Boston Tea Party

• Protests . . .
• South Carolina colonists unloaded the tea on
  the docks and let it rot
• New York blockaded tea ships from coming in
• Boston . . .
• Men dressed up as Native Americans and threw the
  tea overboard in protest destruction of
  property Britain wanted them brought to justice
  . . .