8th Grade

We continued talking about the lead up to the American Revolution. We talked about specific Acts passed and the Boston Massacre. Monday we will watch a video clip or two that deal with this event. I am also posting the notes for Chapter 5
Section 3. I expect to see all 3 sections in your notebooks on Monday. We will be testing over Chapter 5 on Friday October 29th (next Friday).

Here are the notes for Section 3 and do not forget your study guide which is also due next Friday. 10 minutes a night, every night :)

Mr. C

From Protest to Revolution
Chapter 5
Section 3

A Dispute Over Tea
Tea was very popular

Parliament Passes the Tea Act
British East India Company supplied most of the tea to the colonies
Tax tea…sat on boats unsold
British merchants were allowed to sell tea
Undercut the colonial merchants
Colonists boycotted Tea Act buy continuing to buy colonial tea at a higher price

A New Boycott
Started drinking coffee “Liberty Tea”
Refused to allow British merchants to unload their cargo of tea

Boston Tea Party
November 1773 3 British ships reach Boston harbor
Dec. 16th Sam Adams & Sons of Liberty demand ships leave the harbor
They refuse
Sons of Liberty dress like Indians and dump 342 chest of tea into Boston Harbor

Parliament Strikes Back
Colonists had mixed reactions to tea party
Britain passes Intolerable Acts
British ships blockade Boston Harbor until tea is paid for
Town meetings forbidden
British officials must be tried in Britain
New Quartering Act

Quebec Act
Set up separate government for Canada
Complete religious freedom for French Catholics
Gave land in Ohio Valley to French Canadians

Other Colonies Support Boston
Smuggled food into Boston
All Merchants closed in a show of unity

First Continental Congress-
Boycott of all British goods until Intolerable Acts were repealed
Agreed to meet again on May 1775
Encouraged each colony to setup a militia
Militia- citizens that served as soldiers during an emergency

Lexington and Concord
Minutemen- men trained and ready to fight at a minutes notice
British soldiers marched on Concord to seize a cache of arms stored there.
Led by General Thomas Gage
Supposed to be a surprise
April 18th 700 British troops leave Boston
Sons of Liberty watching
2 lamps hung in Old North Church-By sea
Militia waited on banks of Charles River
Day break on April 19th, near Lexington British commanders ordered militia to go home
Militia disbanded and headed home
Shot rang out from somewhere
Fighting breaks out
8 militiamen killed
British move on Concord
British found nothing at Concord
Supplies had been moved
On the march back to Boston, militia, now larger waited for British
300 militiamen
More fighting
73 British killed and 200 wounded
Became know as the Battle of Lexington and Concord
All hope of a peaceful solution was gone
Only option…..WAR!