Boston Tea Party

The townshend Acts were repealed in

1770

they may have repealed the TA, but they kept

The Tea Act of 1773

What does the Tea Act staying in place represent

that parliament was still in control

What did the Tea Act force the colonists do which made them upset

Forced them to buy Tea only from the British East India company

• BEI were in debt and buying just from them would create a monopoly on imports and sales

• actually decreased the price for colonists

• people who were “smuggling” were not allowed to unload their tea

Son’s of Liberty’s plan in response to the Tea Act

boycott BEI tea

who spead the message of the BEI boycott

The Committe of Correspondance

What did the BEI boycott intale

When BEI ships would come with the tea, they were to be turned away

• King said: BOSTON HAD TO GET TEA THO AND THEY HAD TO PAY FOR IT

Because Boston was being forced to take the tea what did the SOL do in response

held a town meeting and came up with the tea party

What year was the Boston Tea Party?

1773

Events during the Boston Tea Party

• Colonists/sons of liberty dressed up as native americans, jumped on the ship, and threw tea into the harbor

• Wanted nothing bad about them being said so they kept it honnerable and civil

  • someone tried to steal

  • someone broke the chest and they went and got a locksmith to fix it

What is George III’s response to the Tea Party?

He looses it and passes the Coercive Acts

Coercive acts

• Close Boston port

  • lifeblood of boston

  • closed until they paid for the tea they dumped

• No elections, everyone is appointed by King

  • no freedom of assembly

• All trials go to england

• New and more stringent quartering act

• Qubec Act- gave Qubec access to the land north of the ohio river (the land from the proclimation of 1763 that the colonists could not have, to Quebec)

Another name for Coercive Acts

Intolerable Acts

how did the intolerable acts get their name

when the qubec act was added

General Thomas Gage

the new, military governer of Massechucets

Patriots

Whigs- did not like the king

Which colonies had the most amount of patriots

MA and VA

Loyalists

Tories- supported the King

which colonies had the most loyalists

NY NC SC GA

First Contenental Congress

Sep-October 1774

• Philadelphia

• Agreee to boycott all british products

• Declaration of rights and greviences

Declaration of rights and greviences

A letter sent to the king where they:

• professed that they were still loyal to king but wanted reconsilliation

• condemed the qubec act and the intolerable acts

• did not like french catholics

Which colony did not attend the first contenental congress and why

Gerogia- in battle with native americans at the time and needed british protection

When did the second contentential congress meet and what did they do

May 1775, made wartime decisions

What year did the revolutionary war start

1775

Which were the first battles of the revolutionary war

Lexington and concord

Slaves were offered

freedom if they fought with the british (they lied and sent them off to islands)

Cannon foddor

people who were not good at fighting so they charged first on an attack to waste the oppositions materials so that the good people could fight with an advantage.

Often would charge and switch sides

Virginia situation

• Capital was in Williamsberg

• Dunmore was the first appointed governer

• House of Burgussess said f u we tax ourselves

• Dun said f u back and dissolved them

• HOB was like no way weve been here for 150 yrs and ran away to Richmond to meet again