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Let’s travel back in time again!

Let’s travel back in time again!. Buckle up and strap on your helmets!. First, we must set the time and place. Let’s go visit the thirteen colonies. Date. Year. Place. 1760. Virginia. October 25. October 25, 1760. We’re in the colony of Virginia, under the control of England.

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Let’s travel back in time again!

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  1. Let’s travel back in time again! Buckle up and strap on your helmets!

  2. First, we must set the time and place. Let’s go visit the thirteen colonies. Date Year Place 1760 Virginia October 25

  3. October 25, 1760 • We’re in the colony of Virginia, under the control of England. • England has a new king, George III.

  4. We’ve just finished fighting a war against the French. • England owes a lot of money because of this war. • Where are they going to get this money?

  5. From their thirteen colonies on the other side of the ocean! • England decides that they are going to try to make the colonists give them money. • They make us pay them taxes. • They begin passing acts, or laws, to make the colonists pay them.

  6. 1764: Sugar Act – A tax on the sugar and molasses that we trade. • 1765: Stamp Act – All official papers (diplomas, wills, licenses, newspapers, almanac, and even playing cards) in the colonies must be stamped by a British government agent…oh, but you have to pay for it. • 1765: Quartering Act – Colonists have to pay for British soldiers living in the colonies. Oh, and they can even stay in your house, whether you want them there or not.

  7. Why should we have to pay them? We don’t even get a say in our government! THIS IS NOT FAIR!

  8. Many people protest the Stamp Act. • Colonists boycott (refuse to buy) British products. • A colonist from Boston named Samuel Adams decides to do something about this. • He and some of the other colonists in Boston form a secret club called the Sons of Liberty. • The Sons of Liberty destroy the homes of British government agents. • Colonists protest that Liberty (freedom) has died in the colonies.

  9. It works! • Parliament cancels the Stamp Act…(and only the Stamp Act). • But it’s not over yet…

  10. 1767 • The British pass another act. • The Declaratory Act allows the British government to tax the colonists without their consent (permission).

  11. They pass ANOTHER act! • The Townshend Acts requires the colonists to pay taxes on glass, lead, paper, and tea. • The British seize a ship they suspect is smuggling (sneaking) these things. • But…guess what…. • This ship belongs to John Hancock, one of the Sons of Liberty!

  12. The Sons of Liberty begin riots and set fires. THEY ARE MAD! And so are all of the other colonists… • So, the British government sends troops to patrol the streets of Boston. • Bostonians don’t like them. They tease them and fight with them.

  13. March 1770 • A British solider standing guard at a building in Boston is being yelled at by a crowd of angry people. • They throw snowballs at him, and he calls for help. • Some more British soldiers show up. • People begin throwing rocks at the soldiers, and daring them to shoot!

  14. So they do. • One soldier fires his musket, and the rest begin to shoot. • A man named Crispus Attucks is the first to fall. • Five colonists are killed. • This becomes known as the Boston Massacre. • How do you think the colonists will react to this one?

  15. Parliament withdraws (calls off) most of the Townshend Acts. • However, they still keep the tax on tea, just to prove that England could still tax the colonies if they wanted to. • British troops leave Boston, and things cool down for a little while. • Things between the colonists and Britain still aren’t good, though…

  16. 1773 • The English East India Tea Company had too much tea in its warehouses, and it needed to be sold soon. • The British government decides that only the East India Tea Company, and no one else, can sell tea in the colonies. This is called the Tea Act. • Oh, and England would get to collect the tax on the tea.

  17. The colonists try to keep the East India Company’s ships from bringing their tea into the colonies. • The Sons of Liberty decide to strike back.

  18. The Sons of Liberty dress up as Mohawk Indians and sneak aboard the ships in Boston Harbor in the middle of the night. • They chop up all of the crates of tea on the ships, and dump all of the tea into the harbor. • This becomes known as the Boston Tea Party.

  19. 1774 • Parliament (the British government) is MAD! • They order the Port of Boston closed. • No ship could leave or bring goods into port until the residents of Boston pay for the tea they’d destroyed! • The Quartering Act is in effect. • Parliament passes the Quebec Act, which gives Canada some of the land belonging to the colonies. • These are known as the Intolerable Acts.

  20. The colonists aren’t going to take it anymore! • We need to do something, and we need to do it now! • We will UNITE!

  21. ALERT! Time Machine is low on fuel!

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