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ON THE BRINK OF WAR!

ON THE BRINK OF WAR!. What is happening in this picture?. WHO?. Is that a NATIVE AMERICAN!?!?!??. WHY dump?. Let’s think…. The King thinks…. The Colonists think…. Just give us our freedom!. How DARE they defy me!. The King will…. The Colonists will…. More laws to punish you!.

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ON THE BRINK OF WAR!

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  1. ON THE BRINK OF WAR!

  2. What is happening in this picture? WHO? Is that a NATIVE AMERICAN!?!?!?? WHY dump?

  3. Let’s think… The King thinks… The Colonists think… Just give us our freedom! How DARE they defy me! The King will… The Colonists will… More laws to punish you! Fight for what we deserve!

  4. Punishing the Colonies… King says: YOU NEED PUNISHED! March 1774: British Parliament passes the Coercive Acts Colonists call them INTOLERABLE ACTS: Why?

  5. What YOU would do… NO ALLOWANCE until you pay your parents for your food. NO MEETINGS with your friends. YOU MUST allow Mrs. Andrick to live with you and pay all her expenses.

  6. What Britain did… NO ALLOWANCE until you pay your parents for your food. NO MEETINGS with your friends. YOU MUST allow Mrs. Andrick to live with you and pay all her expenses. CLOSED Boston Harbor until taxes were paid on used tea. No town meetings allowed. Quartering Act: You must shelter and feed British soldiers in your home at your expense.

  7. What’s the difference?

  8. Quebec Act Extended the Quebec border into the Ohio Valley and restored French civil law Allowed them to keep their language (French) and religion (Catholicism). How does the extension of Quebec prevent colonist claims to the west? Problems? Catholics Protestants

  9. Currency Act Parliament also prohibits the colonies from issuing paper money

  10. What should happen? A person from Britain robs your family!! Takes all your possessions! They are allowed to be tried IN Britain. List TWO issues with this!

  11. Administration of Justice Act Let British officials accused of a crime to be tried in England rather than in America.

  12. Colonists Take Arms Several colonies now moving toward open rebellion. Tensions between colonists and soldiers are growing by the day! Militia begins drilling in the village greens, and the farmers and artisans in the militia became known as “minutemen” because they could be ready to fight at a moment’s notice.

  13. THE SHOT HEARD ‘ROUND THE WORLD!

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