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Causes of the American Revolution 2
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BOSTON MASSACRE 1770
- Clash between colonists & British soldiers in Boston
- British troops fired on crowd and five colonist died
- Crispus Attucks – first killed
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COMMITTEE OF CORRESPONDENCE 1772
- A system used by the Sons of Liberty to circulate colonist grievances (complaints) against Britain
- Committees of correspondence sprang up throughout the colonies
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TEA ACT 1773
- Passed by Parliament to save the East Indian Company
- This law placed a tax on tea and hurt colonial tea merchants
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BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773 - Organized by Sam Adams and the
Sons of Liberty to protest the Tea Act
- Colonist dressed as Indians and dumped British tea into Boston Harbor
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SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK – TEA PARTY
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INTOLERABLE ACTS 1774 - New British laws to
punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party
- Closed Boston Harbor until MA colonist paid for the ruined tea
- Took away certain rights of the MA colonist
- Also called the Coercive Acts
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FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 1774 - 55 delegates from all the colonies except
Georgia were sent to Philadelphia to establish a political body to represent American interest and challenge British control
- Passed a resolution to boycott British goods, Cease British trade, and form militias
- Sent Olive Branch Petition to King George III asking him to treat colonist as British citizens with equal rights – he rejects this
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BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD - British troops marched from Boston to Concord
Massachusetts to take weapons stored there by the militia
- Paul Revere and William Dawes rode to Lexington to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming
- By the time the British reached Lexington, the Minutemen were waiting and firing began
- No one knows who fired the first shots of the American Revolution – “ the shot heard round the world”
- This marks the first battles of the American Revolution!
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PAUL REVERE’S RIDE
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SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK – SHOT HEARD ROUND THE WORLD