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Aim: What are the causes of the War for Independence? Do Now: Define Intolerable Acts. Why were they passed? HW: Patriot versus Loyalist Handout. Intolerable Acts. King George III was infuriated with Boston Tea Party and pressed Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts.
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Aim: What are the causes of the War for Independence?Do Now:Define Intolerable Acts. Why were they passed?HW: Patriot versus Loyalist Handout.
Intolerable Acts • King George III was infuriated with Boston Tea Party and pressed Parliament to pass the Intolerable Acts. • 1. Boston Harbor was shut down because colonists refused to pay for the damaged tea. • 2. Quartering Act: authorized British commanders to house soldiers in private homes and buildings. • 3. British General Thomas Gage was appointed as new governor of Massachusetts • 4. Martial Law: rule imposed by military forces.
First Continental Congress • In response to Intolerable Acts, the Committees of Correspondence assembled the First Continental Congress. • 56 delegates met in Philadelphia and drew up declaration of colonial rights. • Minutemen (civilian soldiers) began to stockpile ammunition, gunpowder, firearms.
Paul Revere“The British are coming!” • General Gage ordered his soldiers to seize the colonists’ illegal weapons in Concord, Massachusetts. • Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Samuel Prescott rode out to spread word that the British were coming. • As they rode through each town, they rang church bells and sounded gunshots to warn colonists.
Battle of Lexington and Concord • Was the first battle of the American Revolution • Colonists defeated the British and took back control of Boston • http://www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/battles-of-lexington-and-concord
Second Continental Congress • Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and other delegates attended. • 1. Appointed George Washington as commander of the Continental Army • 2. Congress printed money in order to support the army.
Patriots: Colonists who wanted independence Loyalists: Colonials who were loyal to Britain (did not want independence) Patriots vs. Loyalists Neutral: Colonists who did not take either side
Patriots vs. Loyalists ActivityDirections: • Rows 1,3,and 5: Complete Colonist A-C SILENTLY • Rows 2,4,and 6: Complete Colonist D-F SILENTLY