Paper Preparation solo

1. Colonial Concerns Paper Preparation solo We are paper boxing. Head the paper. Title your paper “Colonial Concerns”.

2. Colonial Concerns(SS.7.C.1.3, SS.7.C.1.4) - by the end of this lesson, you should be able to: describe how English policies and responses to colonial concerns led to the writing of the Declaration of Independence analyze the impact of the Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Revenue Act, Quartering Act, and Intolerable Acts

3. Box 1: What is happening in this picture? Write down what you think is happening in this picture. Take a minute to look at this picture.

4. Turn out the lights, please.

5. Too Late To Apologize: A Declarationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZfRaWAtBVg

6. Box 2: The video What was the video showing us? Write any images or lyrics that stick in your mind.

7. Box 2: The video Was there a connection between this picture and the video?

8. Reading Check: Hey King! In our readings for the next few lessons, y’all will be doing all the work. I will start by assigning you numbers. If you choose not to read, you will receive a 0% (F) for this reading check. If you are not ready to read at the right time, you will lose points from your reading check grade.

9. Reading Check: Hey King! 1) Really? Was it that bad? By 1776, the American colonists living under English rule thought so. In fact, things were so bad that they went to war to gain their independence. But why? What could have been so intolerable?

10. Reading Check: Hey King! 2) The first Englishmen came to America four hundred years ago looking for gold, silver, and a waterway to Asia. They were part of a trading company that convinced the king of England to grant them a charter giving them permission to set up a colony in America.

11. Reading Check: Hey King! 3) But they did not find what they were looking for. Times got so hard those first settlers had to eat rats and even each other to keep from starving to death. Pretty soon, though, more people arrived and times got better. The English were here to stay.

12. Reading Check: Hey King! 4) Back in England, the King probably figured he had a pretty good deal. Other people got seasick sailing across the ocean to settle an untamed land while he sat in his palace ruling England. Except that being king just wasn’t what it used to be. Back in the 1200s, a king could really do what he wanted!

13. Reading Check: Hey King! 5) But this was the 1600s, and now the English people had representatives in Parliament who made laws and stood up for peoples’ rights. They even gave advice to the king.

14. Reading Check: Hey King! 6) In America, the colonists needed some kind of government to deal with everyday problems. After all, the king was on the other side of the ocean. And because of Parliament, the colonists were used to having a say in government.

15. Reading Check: Hey King! 7) In Virginia Colony, the first settlers decided each community should have two representatives and that all the representatives would meet together.

16. Reading Check: Hey King! 8) Farther north, in Plymouth, the colonists signed a compact agreeing to form a majority-rule government where all the men would vote on whatever issues came up. (Women didn’t get to vote in 1620.) Even so, the king still controlled the colonies, and the colonists had to follow England’s laws.

17. Reading Check: Hey King! 9) Even with that self-government, the king still controlled the colonies, and the colonists had to follow England’s laws. England had a lot of other colonies besides those in America and plenty of other problems to deal with.

18. Reading Check: Hey King! 10) The king and Parliament didn’t have much time to pay attention to the American colonists. By the mid-1700s there were 13 colonies, and each colony had its own government. These little governments grew stronger and more used to being in control.

19. Reading Check: Hey King! 11) When problems came up, the colonial governments took care of things themselves. The colonists were out on their own, making their own decisions, governing things the way they wanted to without much interference.

20. Reading Check: Hey King! 12) But then times got tough, and the British government went looking for money. Great Britain, which now included both England and Scotland, saw its colonies around the world as a source of profit.

21. Reading Check: Hey King! 13) Colonies were places to cut timber, grow crops such as cotton and coffee, and mine for valuable minerals. The king forced the colonists to sell these raw materials back to England at really cheap prices. People in England would use the materials to make finished products.

22. Reading Check: Hey King! 14) But did the colonists get a bargain on these items because they provided the materials? No way! The king forced the colonists to buy the finished products at extra high prices.

23. Reading Check: Hey King! 15) That was only the beginning. In the mid-1700’s, Britain fought two expensive wars. Britain had taken out a lot of debt to pay for the war, so it went looking for a way to make money fast. Taxing the American colonists seemed like the perfect idea.

24. Reading Check: Hey King! 16) So in 1765, Britain passed the Stamp Act, which forced colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents, as well as newspapers, calendars, and almanacs. The colonists had an answer for that: They quit buying British goods! But this boycott didn’t work for long. Britain repealed the Stamp Act after one year, but things did not get better.

25. Reading Check: Hey King! 17) As soon as the Stamp Act was gone, the British passed the Declaratory Act saying that the colonies were dependent on the king and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect.

26. Reading Check: Hey King! 18) As if that weren’t bad enough, Britain also passed the Townshend Revenue Act, taxing things it knew the colonists couldn’t make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea. This Act also allowed British government workers to search peoples’ houses and even break down doors to seize items the homeowner hadn’t paid taxes for.

27. Reading Check: Hey King! 19) The Quartering Acts of 1765 and 1774 forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses. In the 1770s, a series of laws cracked down on rebellious activity in Massachusetts colony. Colonists called these the Intolerable Acts.

28. Reading Check: Hey King! 20) The colonists finally decided there was only one solution: Independence! On July 4, 1776, leaders of the colonies signed the Declaration of Independence, breaking ties with Britain.

29. Reading Check: Hey King! 21) It wasn’t that easy, though. There was the small matter of fighting a war against Britain to make that freedom real. When the Americans won the Revolutionary War, Britain lost all control of the colonies. The United States of America was born.

30. Box 3-4: The Intolerable Acts Stamp Act forced colonists to put expensive tax stamps on all legal documents, newspapers, calendars, and almanacs Declaratory Act colonies were dependent on the king and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect

31. Box 3-4: The Intolerable Acts Declaratory Act colonies were dependent on the king and declaring that all laws passed in the colonies had no effect Townshend Revenue Act taxed things the colonists couldn’t make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea allowed government workers to search homes and allowed the seizure of items that the homeowner hadn’t payed taxes on

32. Box 3-4: The Intolerable Acts Townshend Revenue Act taxed things the colonists couldn’t make for themselves: paint, glass, paper, lead, and tea allowed government workers to search homes and allowed the seizure of items that the homeowner hadn’t payed taxes on Quartering Act forced certain colonists to let British troops live in their houses

33. 13 British Colonies Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire Can you find Boston? Do you see New England? Where is Philadelphia?

34. Reading Check: Road to the Declaration 1754 – 1763 1764 1765 1766 – 1767 1768 – 1769 1770 – 1773 1774 1775 1776 This reading check is optional. I’ll need volunteers to read certain time periods for us. If you’d like to volunteer, please stand up at your desk. I will write your initials on the board next to the decades. There will be note-taking on this reading.

35. Reading Check: Road to the Declaration 1754 – 1763 1764 1765 1766 – 1767 1768 – 1769 1770 – 1773 1774 1775 1776 On the back of your paper (boxes 5-8), please write these years down the middle fold. Skip two spaces between each date. Information about the colonists will go on the left of these years. Information about the British government will go on the right.

36. British (Right Side): 1754 – 1763 (part 1) The French and Indian War began between the English and French over land in the Ohio River Valley. Colonists fought for England. The English won the war, but the war left them in debt and needing money. England looked at the colonies as a source of money and it led to a series of actions by King George and the English legislature, called Parliament that angered the colonists. In October of 1763, through the Proclamation of 1763, England banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian mountains.

37. Colonists (Left Side): 1754 – 1763 (part 2) Near the end of the war, English officials were given search warrants that allowed them to search warehouses, homes, and ships of colonists without a reason. A colonist and Boston lawyer, James Otis challenged the warrantsfor the searches in court. He was arguing that they violatedthe individual rights of the colonists.

38. British (Right Side): 1764 (part 1) In April of 1764 Parliament taxed sugar that was imported, or brought into the colonies, to pay off the war debt and to help pay for the expenses of running the colonies. This act increased the duties, or taxes, on imported sugar and other items such as textiles, coffee, wines and indigo (dye).

39. Colonists (Left Side): 1764 (part 2) In response to the new taxes on sugar, textiles, coffee, wines, and dyes, colonial Boston businesses started boycotting some English goods.

40. British (Right Side): 1764 (part 3) In the fall of 1764, Parliament ordered colonies to stop printing their own money. Colonists opposed the order because they feared it would upset the economy.

41. British (Right Side): 1765 (part 1) In March of 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act. Under the Stamp Act, all printed materials were taxed, including; newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents, licenses, almanacs, dice and playing cards. The money collected from the tax did not go to colonial legislatures but directly to England. Later on in the same month, Parliament ordered colonial legislatures to pay for English soldiers that are located in the colonies. It also required colonists to house British troops and supply them food.

42. 1765 (part 2) In May, Patrick Henry, a colonist, gave a speech to the Virginia legislature saying that only the Virginia legislature, not Parliament, can tax Virginians. In July, a secret group of colonists called the Sons of Liberty formed in some towns. They were opposed to the Stamp Act and they used violence and intimidation to force all of the English stamp agents to resign. They also stopped many colonists from ordering English goods.

43. Colonists (Left Side): 1765 (part 3) In the fall, representatives from nine of the colonies met in New York and prepared a petition to be sent to King George III and Parliament. The petition requested that the Stamp Act and the Acts of 1764 stop being enforced. The petition stated that only colonial legislatures can tax colonists and that taxation without representation violated the colonists' basic civil rights.

44. British (Right Side): 1766 - 1767 (part 1) In March of 1766, Parliament ended the Stamp Act, but it also passed the Declaratory Act. This act stated that England had total power to legislate any laws governing the colonies. In the summer of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Act. This act taxed many items imported into the colonies, such as: paper, tea, glass, lead and paints.

45. Colonists (Left Side): 1766 - 1767 (part 2) In response, colonists decide to refuse to purchase, or boycott, paper, tea, glass, lead, and paints.

46. Colonists (Left Side): 1768 - 1769 (part 1) In February of 1768, a colonist named Samuel Adams from Massachusetts wrote a letter against taxation without representation, the idea that it is unfair to tax someone without giving them representation in government, and called for resistance to the Townshend Act. He encouraged other colonies to support the letter.

47. British (Right Side): 1768 - 1769 (part 2) In September, English ships sail into Boston Harbor and English troops set up permanent residence in Boston to keep order.

48. Colonists (Left Side): 1768 - 1769 (part 3) In 1769, Philadelphia businesses join the Boston boycott against British goods. Later in the year, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and North Carolina also join the boycott against British goods.

49. British (Right Side): 1770 - 1773 (part 1) In March of 1770, the Boston Massacre happened. This event occurred when a large crowd of colonists crowded around and harassed English soldiers. In response, the soldiers fired their guns into the crowd killing five people and injuring six. After the incident, the troops are withdrawn out of Boston. The same day as the Boston Massacre, Parliament ended all taxes on imports except for tea.

50. Colonists (Left Side): 1770 - 1773 (part 2) In May of 1773 Parliament made the British East India Company the only company allowed to import tea into the colonies. This is called the Tea Act. Months later, in response to the Tea Act, a group of colonists board English ships in Boston, and dump hundreds of chests of tea into the harbor. This becomes known as the Boston Tea Party.