From Protest to Rebellion

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From Protest to Rebellion
The Boston Tea Party
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The Tea Act - 1773

• During the early 1770s, the colonies protests
  quieted down
• However, in 1773 England passed the Tea Act
• The act was meant to help the British East India
  Company and actually lowered tea prices
• Colonists were angry because this created a
  monopoly and hurt colonial merchants
• The colonists responded with the Boston Tea Party

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The Boston Tea Party 1773
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The Intolerable Acts

• Britains response to the Boston Tea Party was to
  pass the Intolerable Acts
• Port of Boston closed
• Increased power of the royal governors
• Abolished the upper house of the Massachusetts
  legislature
• Strengthened the Quartering Act

The Intolerable Acts as Approved by King George
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The First Continental Congress

• The colonies were outraged at the Intolerable
  Acts and many people wanted to help Boston
• The Committee of Correspondence organized the
  First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in
  1774
• The Congress accomplished
• Demanded a repeal of the Intolerable Acts
• Declared colonies had a right to tax and govern
  themselves
• Called for the training of militias
• A new boycott of British goods

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The Midnight Ride

• The British government had no intention of
  meeting colonial demands
• British general Thomas Gage was going to capture
  colonial arms in Concord, Massachusetts but the
  colonists learned of the plan
• Paul Revere and William Dawes rode through the
  night to warn the minutemen to be ready to
  confront the British

A Statue of a Minuteman
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The Battle of Lexington and Concord

• When the British arrived in Lexington,
  Massachusetts, they were confronted by the
  minutemen on April 18th 1775
• Nobody knew who shot first, but this was the
  first battle of the American Revolution
• This is referred to as The Shot Heard Around the
  World
• Another battle took place near Concord. The
  British ultimately retreated

A Portrait of the Battle of Lexington Created
Years Later
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