Transcript French and Indian War

Stirrings of Rebellion
Pages 5- 6 (box 2)
TOTD: What is something that you
have protested against OR would
protest against AND WHY would you
or did you feel compelled to do so?
AGENDA
•Finish page 11 notes
•French and Indian War Acrostic
•Notes p 5
•ACTS and TAX Timeline
•Colonial Anger Gauge
•QUIZ/Calendar
French and Indian War► 1754-1763
► Who
is fighting?
 GB and France are fighting over land
 England (aka Great Britain) & the American
colonies against the French and Indians (some)
 Great Britain won!
 Won French territories in N. America
 Wars are not cheap $$$
 Now GB is in debt and need $
►British
passed:
►Proclamation Line of 1763.
 The law let Native Americans have
any land west of the Appalachian
Mountains.
►Colonists
west
did not want to move
Now what…
► The
F and I war debt was placed on the
American colonists
► Got
money by taxing colonists = $$
► British
colonists in America felt it wasn’t their
war to fight…and the TAX shouldn’t be theirs
either
► Parliament
in London increasingly aware of the
value of the American colonies
FRIDAY! 9/20
►TOTD:
Do you think the King in England
was right for not wanting the colonies to
unite? Explain.
Agenda:
► TOTD
► French
and Indian War Share
► Finish p 5-6 notes + videos
► Colonial Anger Gauge
► Calendar Review
Stamp Act
-1. Parliament passes Stamp Act
(1765)
-placed a direct tax on the colonists
• Taxed on every sheet of paper
they used.
-required stamp on all legal
documents, newspapers,
license, and playing cards
• **FYI: The money collected by
the Stamp Act was to be used to
help pay the costs of defending
-affected many colonists rich and
and protecting the American
poor
frontier near the Appalachian
Mountains (10,000 troops were to -Quartering Act, 1765- law stated
be stationed on the American
that troops were allowed to enter
frontier for this purpose).
and stay in colonists homes w/o
permission!
Resistance Begins
-Sons of Liberty-
-2. Declaratory Act–
(1766) states that
Parliament has the right
to declare laws for British
colonies
England can make any
law for the colonies to
follow.
• Secret society of Patriots
in Boston
• Samuel Adams
• John Adams
-No taxation w/o
representation!!!
-protests and boycotts were
organized
-stamp agents were harassed
-law eventually repealed (aka
cancelled)
1774-The
Bostonians
Paying the
Excise Man
Townshend Acts
-new tax placed on imports such as
tea, glass, paper, paint
-colonists again reacted with
protests
-British reacted by sending more
troops
• This made colonists angry again!
Boston Massacre
-March 1770
-protests by colonists
-British troops fire on crowd
-5 colonists killed
Crispus Attucks-1st African
American killed
-Most soldiers found not guilty
John Adams served as attorney
for the soldiers
•one of five
people killed in
the Boston
Massacre
•has been
frequently
named as the
first martyr of
the American
Revolution
•the only
person killed in
the Boston
Massacre
whose name is
commonly
remembered
Tea Act (1773)
► Allowed
company to
bypass colonial
merchants and sell the
tea directly to shop
keepers at a low price
► Tax on the most
popular drink
Boston Tea Party
-tax on tea still remain in effect
-monopoly on tea given to British
company
-Dec. 1773 colonists raided
Boston harbor and threw the
tea overboard and burned the
ships
• Sons of Liberty involved
• 365 chests of tea in harbor
Intolerable Acts
-Parliament passes Coercive Acts in
reaction
-Colonists call it the Intolerable
Acts
-closed Boston Harbor
-suspended basic civil rights
-housed troops in peoples’ homes
-Committees of Correspondence:
• Groups of individuals who
exchanged ideas,
information, and propaganda
used to encourage people to
go against the British.