PPT-The Boston Tea Party

By Chanelle LeBlanc Who When Where British colonists 1773 Boston What caused this event The British were in serious need of money Tea was very popular and they believed that they could get more money from the sale of it . A cannon . or large . gun.. Minuteman . a member of the colonial militia who was trained to respond . “. at a minute’s warning”. The Boston . T. ea . P. arty . The Boston tea party. . Objective: Students will examine the Boston Tea Party as an event that led up to the American revolution and consider both sides of the conflict.. Author: Pamela Duncan Edwards. Boston Tea Party. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, NY, 2001. The Boston Tea Party of . December 16, 1773. , took place when a group of Massachusetts Patriots, protesting the . monopoly. on American tea importation recently granted by Parliament to the East India Company, seized . Chapter . 5. , Lesson . 2. Trouble in Boston (Prelude). In 1768, John Hancock’s ship . Liberty. docked in at Boston to unload a shipment of wine and take on new supplies.. Customs officials charged Hancock with smuggling and had seized the ship from him.. Getting’ Rowdy in Boston!. Colonists VERY upset with . British.. News of the protests got to Parliament!. British . wanted to get colonists under control.. Sent troops to occupy colonial cities.. Troops cause trouble. KWLS CHARTS. GOOD AFTERNOON, STUDENTS!. Please use the first 5 minutes of class to fill out 1 “K” and 2 “W’s” on your KWLS charts about…. . THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. .. SCHOOL HOUSE ROCK. “No More Kings”. THE STAMP ACT. THE TOWNSHEND ACTS. THE BOSTON MASSACRE. 4. THE BOSTON TEA PARTY. 1. THE STAMP ACT. The British introduced a tax on legal documents such as wills etc.. Americans were . furious. to think that a ruler who lived 5,000 km away could tax them in this way.. the . Colonists. Section 5.2. 8.22 . Analyze the social, political and economic causes of the American Revolution and the major battles, leaders and events including: The Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea Party, The Intolerable Acts, Samuel Adams, and Paul Revere.. Reasons for Taxation. British Tax Laws. Colonial Response. Pay for Army. Pay for War Debt (French and Indian). Sugar Act. Stamp Act. Committees of Correspondence. Boycott. Sons of liberty. NEW TAXES & TENSIONS. The Boston. Tea. Party. 1773. LOOK at your Paper. Look at the paper that we did in class about the different accounts of the tea party.. Look at the last column and write me a 1 page account of what you think really happened during the Tea Party.. Arms. [ 3.3 ] Taking Up . Arms. Learning Objectives. Explain how a dispute over tea led to further tension between the colonists and Great Britain.. Describe ways that the British Parliament punished the colonists for the Boston Tea Party.. What events led the colonists to try to break free from English rule?. Navigation Acts. The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passed by Britain that said that the colonies could only ship goods for sale on English ships and that they could only sell goods to British merchants.. The Liberty . The colonists were . outraged. when the British seized a ship owned by John Hancock called . The Liberty. . . The British believed that the ship was being use to . smuggle. in goods that would be . By: Brooke Symkoviak. After the French And Indian War. Why did the British create new tax laws for the colonists?. Pay for the troops. Colonists were banned from making their own money. “No taxation without representation”.