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Chapter 5 Review Notes

 Before 1760
 Colonies were left to govern
themselves/taxes/laws
 Population was growing, colonies
were getting crowed
 French and Indian War
 Great Britain gets a lot of land
 Great Britain is in debt
 Great Britain tries to take more control of the
American colonies
 New rules
 Taxes to pay off debt
2 groups in the Colonies

 Patriot Groups (Son’s of Liberty)


 Upset because of the colonies were
being taxed without representation
(denied self-government)
 Organized boycotts of taxed items
 Wrote letters and pet ions to the King
and Parliament
 Loyalists did not support these
views
 Saw patriots as rebels
British Laws and Colonial
Responses
 TheProclamation of
1763- prevented colonists
from moving west of App Mts
 Benefits the American Indians
 Harms the American colonists
 Denies access to farm land
 Brings British troops to the colonies
 tyranny
British Laws and Reponses
 Stamp Act
 Tax on paper to pay for war debt
 patriots angry they were taxed without representation, tranny
 Loyalists supported it, colonist were least taxed, pay their
share
 Fought with Boycott, riots, petitions
 Repealed (not making money)

 Townshend Act
 Tax on paint, glass, and tea to pay for troops in the colonies
 Colonist angry they were taxed without representation, tranny
 Fought with boycott, women made goods at home
 Loyalists even supported the boycott
 Repealed (except tea tax)
 Led to calm in colonies
 Loyalist willing to pay tax, Patriots smuggle tea from Dutch
British Laws and
Reponses
 Boston Massacre
 March 5 1770
 Accident where British troops kill 5 colonists who were
rioting in streets
 Trial found 2 of the 9 soldiers guilty of manslaughter (not
murder)
 Patriots call it a Massacre to create negative feeling
towards the British
 Used propaganda (Paul Revere) to turn colonist against British
 Tea Act
 Gave British East India Company monopoly of tea sales
in the colonies
 Made taxed tea cheaper (Townshend tax was still in
place)
 Colonist angry they were still taxed without
representation, and GB attempt to control sale of tea
British Laws and
Reponses
 Boston Tea Party
 Son’s of Liberty (patriots) in Boston protest
Tea Act
 Dump 90,000 lbs of Tea into Boston Harbor

 Intolerable Acts
 4 laws punishing the colonies for Tea Party
1. Close Boston Harbor until Tea is paid for
2. Mass. Under British control. No Town meetings/self gov
3. British troops sent to England for trial if accused of crime
4. More soldiers sent to Boston
Colonist come together
 First Continental Congress
 Decide how to solve the conflict
with GB (respond to Intolerable
Acts)
 50 men, 12 colonies
 Decide
 Send letter to king asking for respect and
rights
 Boycott British good until Intolerable Acts
lifted
 Meet again May 1775
 Organize local Militia (prep for worst)
Rebellion Begins
 Lexington and Concord
 British Troops march to raid colonist weapons
stores
 Meet militia at Lexington, shot fired 8 colonists
killed
 Continue to Concord, find no weapons, burn
store house, fight colonial militia at North Bridge
 British Retreat to Boston- 4,000 colonial minute
men line the route (protected in tree’s/behind
walls), shooting at the troops as they pass
 74 British killed, 200 wounded
 49 colonist killed, 41 wounded
 Proved that Americans were willing to fight
and die for their rights

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