AMERICAN REVOLUTION: PROTEST

WHY ARE WE UPSET WITH BRITAIN?

• Britain is taking advantage of us!
• Passing many Acts to take our money
• Forcing us to pay more for common necessities
• Doing these things, and giving us no say in Parliament
• The Boston Massacre

TAXATION W/O REPRESENTATION

• Britain passes acts for the common good, right? WRONG!
• We have no say in our own taxation. Who represents us in Parliament?
• NO ONE. We abide by rules across a sea!
• They cannot tax us without our permission! Or popular consent!
• NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!!

ACTS

• Stamp Act of 1765
• Townshend Acts of '67
• Tea Act of '73
• Coercive Acts of '74
• Quartering Act

Stamp Act of 1765

• An official stamp must be purchased along with any paper product.
• The first direct tax to the people instead of imports and exports
• Playing cards, legal papers, and more all are taxed now!
• Refusal to comply: fines and even time in prison!
• Repealed by Parliament after we declared it a violation of rights ('66)

TOWNSHEND ACTS

• Glass, lead, paints, and tea, taxed. Surprise!
• Paper tax is back! Honest captains shamed when:
• Their ships are searched for contraband.
• They sent British soldiers here to threaten us!
• We hate these acts! They take power from our governments!

TEA ACT OF '73

• Merchants smuggled in tea w/o the duty paid
• British East India Company given permission to sell directly to us
• Cheap tea- less smuggling, happy faced colonists? Good idea, Tea Act.
• Ships arrived, were told to leave and to stay. They waited in the harbor.
• The Sons of Liberty needed no more encouragement:

BOSTON MASSACRE

• High tensions between Bostonians and soldiers exploded
• On 3/5/1770, one soldier argued with a colonist and hit him.
• A crowd gathered, throwing snowballs and insults. Backup came.
• Crowd became angrier, goading the "rascals" to "fire if they dared".
• Three did, killing three men, including Crispus Attucks, sailor.

COERCIVE (INTOLERABLE) ACTS

• 💥These may spark a revolution!💥
• Boston Harbor has been closed until we pay for the tea. (Mentioned later)
• Massachusetts' charter has been cancelled!
• Accused royal officials are sent to Britain for trial, which is rubbish!
• A large chunk of land has been given to Quebec, and a general is Governor of MA!

QUARTERING ACT

• Passed under the Coercive Acts
• Colonists are required to house soldiers!
• Additions to the household are expensive and rude!
• These "guests" are a violation of our rights!

FIGHTING BACK

COMMITTEES OF CORRESPONDENCE

• Founded by Samuel Adams and others
• Committees contacted other towns and colonies.
• Members share ideas/info on new laws and ways to change them
• Effects of this expression of protest: Organized the people into
• a group that was beginning to think rebelliously.

BOYCOTTING

• Boycotting British goods is common practice.
• Some stores openly boycotted the Stamp Act
• The first boycott began in New York in 1765.
• We boycott to hurt the British economy
• Things we've boycotted: stamps, glass, lead, paper, tea

EFFECTS OF BOYCOTTS

• Sons of Liberty formed
• Courts shut down, legal papers needed Stamps
• Declaratory Act passed, Parliament makes laws for colonies
• Boston Tea Party (continued tea boycott), passage of Tea Act
• Effect of Boston Tea Party: Coercive Acts

SONS OF LIBERTY

• Secret society dating back to 1765.
• Committed Boston Tea Party
• Spread propoganda, exaggerated one-sided stories.
• Founded by Samuel Adams
• Use violence to frighten tax collectors

EFFECTS OF S.o.L

• "Intolerable" Acts
• Frightened tax collectors
• Daughters of Liberty form
• British troops arrive in Boston in 1768
• Boston Tea Party

BOSTON TEA PARTY

• December 16, 1773
• Colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto ships
• They dumped a whopping 340+ chests of tea overboard!
• The streets rang with cries of "Boston Harbour is a teapot tonight!"
• This infuriated the new Prime Minister of Britain. The colonies were punished.

EFFECTS OF THE TEA PARTY

• Coercive Acts, to punish us
• British troops are living among us!
• The harbor is closed!
• They have infiltrated our government!
• They gave our land to Quebec!

JOIN THE PATRIOTS!