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From Tea to Revolt: Colonial Tension & British Retaliation

Explore how a tea dispute escalated into colonial unrest, leading to the Boston Tea Party and Intolerable Acts by Parliament. Learn about the impact on the colonies and how it sparked revolutionary actions.

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From Tea to Revolt: Colonial Tension & British Retaliation

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  1. From Protest to Revolution Explain how a dispute over tea led to tension between the colonist and Britain. Describe how Parliament struck back at Boston.

  2. Dispute over Tea • Most tea came from British East India Company • Asia, then to colonial tea merchants • England kept a tax on tea, even though it was small • British East Company was having finical trouble

  3. Dispute over Tea • Tea Act of 1773 • British East India Company could sell direct to colonists • Didn’t have to sale to merchants first • Colonist would still pay tea tax • Granted you wouldn’t pay the middle man anymore • TEA WOULD COST LESS THAN EVER!!!!!

  4. Dispute over Tea • Colonist madder than ever • Merchants not making any money • Right to conduct Free enterprise violated • Plus Tricky, Tricky! Watch video from 48:37 -52:00

  5. Dispute over Tea • New Boycott over tea • Boston Gov. Thomas Hutchinson said unload tea • Sam Adams and Sons of Liberty had different plans • Dress up at Indians threw Tea in Sea • Boston Tea Party

  6. Dispute over Tea • 342 chests of tea • Cost of: 1 million dollars today

  7. Intolerable Acts • Parliament passed 4 harsh laws called the Intolerable Acts • Shut down port of Boston until Tea repaid • Couldn’t hold town meetings • Custom officers and other official charged of major crimes would have their trial in England • Quartering Act: People in Boston had to let British soldiers stay at their homes

  8. Quebec Act • Set up government in Canada • Religious freedom to French Catholics • Gave land of the Ohio Valley to Canada • Hmmmm do you see an issue here?

  9. First Continental Congress • 12 colonies meet to discuss the fate of the colonies • Georgia didn’t send delegates

  10. First Continental Congress • All agreed to boycott British goods until Intolerable acts repealed • Started a militia • An army of citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency Video 52:24- 57:00

  11. Lexington and Concord • Minutemen: trained to be ready at a minute’s notice • Collected weapons and gunpowder • More troops moved into Boston (4,000)

  12. Lexington and Concord • April 18, 1775: 700 British troops tried to seized the colonial arms (at night) • Sons of Liberty were watching • Paul Revere, “The redcoats are coming!”

  13. Lexington and Concord • “The Shot Heard Round the World” • British reached Lexington and 70 minutemen were waiting • British order them to leave • Minutemen greatly outnumbered started to leave • Shot fired

  14. Lexington and Concord • No one knows who fired • The fight began! • The British were met by 300 minutemen in Concord • They fought back the British

  15. Work Cited • http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2005_winter_spring/boston_tea_party.htm/ • http://steadyhabits.wordpress.com/category/tea-parties/ • http://www2.maxwell.syr.edu/plegal/congress/bramblepp1_files/frame.html • http://www.standstrongforliberty.org/key-events.php • http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/political/continental-congress.htm • http://www.sonofthesouth.net/revolutionary-war/battles/battle-lexington-concord.htm • http://blogs.livefromlexington.com/?tag=sjp

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