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Chapter 5 Section 3: From Protest to Rebellion

Chapter 5 Section 3: From Protest to Rebellion. Objectives. Identify the causes of the Boston Tea Party. Explain how the colonists protested the Intolerable Acts. Describe the events of April 19, 1775, at Lexington and Concord. Terms and People.

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Chapter 5 Section 3: From Protest to Rebellion

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  1. Chapter 5 Section 3: From Protest to Rebellion

  2. Objectives Identify the causes of the Boston Tea Party. Explain how the colonists protested the Intolerable Acts. Describe the events of April 19, 1775, at Lexington and Concord.

  3. Terms and People monopoly – total control of the market for a certain product repeal – to cancel; officially end minuteman – citizen soldier who could be ready to fight at a minute’s notice

  4. Set Questions: What event did you watch a movie on yesterday? How did this event highlight the bad feelings many colonists had towards the British? Why did many colonists have bad feelings towards the British?

  5. How did British tax policies move the colonists closer to rebellion? Widespread protests over the Stamp Act and other taxes had taken Britain by surprise. But even as British leaders repealed some taxes, they passed new ones, further angering the colonists.

  6. During the early 1770s, the protests against the British had quieted down. The most unpopular taxes had been repealed—except the tax on tea. In 1773, however, Parliament passed a new tea law, and protests began again. Tea Act

  7. The Tea Act allowed the East India Company to send tea directly to the colonies, rather than having to first send it to Britain. Britain Thirteen Colonies India Tea

  8. The Tea Act: • reduced the price of tea. Price of tea But it gave the East India Company, an important British company, a monopolyover the tea trade. The colonists thought they should be able to buy tea from whomever they wanted. Plus, they were angry that they were still paying the tea tax.

  9. So if the Tea Act actually lowered the price of tea then why were the colonists mad?

  10. To protest, the Sons of Liberty tried to stop tea from being unloaded in colonial ports. When officials ordered a shipment to be unloaded in Boston, the protestors took action. Dressed as Native Americans, they dumped the tea into the harbor.

  11. Boston Tea Party • Occurred to protest the Tea Act • Sons of Liberty board a British ship in Boston Harbor and throw the crates of tea overboard

  12. British leaders were outraged by the actions of these protestors during what became knows as the Boston Tea Party. They passed a series of laws designed to punish the colonists of Massachusetts—especially those in Boston. The new laws were so harsh that colonists called them the Intolerable Acts.

  13. Intolerable Acts • Closed the port of Boston • Increased the powers of the royal governor • Abolished the upper house of the Massachusetts legislature • Cut the power of town meetings • Strengthened the Quartering Act

  14. How would closing the Boston Harbor hurt the local economy? What is it called when you block things from coming into or out of an area?

  15. Americans in all the colonies responded to the Intolerable Acts by sending food and other supplies to the people of Boston. Meanwhile, colonial leaders called a meeting to discuss what further actions to take. The First Continental Congress, was held in Philadelphia in September and October 1774.

  16. The British responded to the colonists’ demands with force. On April 19, 1775, about 700 British troops marched toward Concord, where they believed minutemen were storing arms. Patriots lit a signal in a church steeple, then Paul Revere and William Dawes rode through the night to warn the minutemen.

  17. Lexington Concord

  18. The shot heard round the world: • First shot of the Revolution • No one knows which side fired it • Begins an age where people begin to desire more say in their own governments

  19. The American Revolution had begun.

  20. See a pattern? It was a series of actions and then reactions. Look back into your notes and write down what caused the following to occur: The Boston Tea Party was a reaction by the ____________ to the ___________________. The Intolerable Acts was a reaction by the ____________ to the ___________________. The First Continental Congress was a reaction by the ____________ to the ___________________.

  21. Section Review QuickTake Quiz Know It, Show It Quiz

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