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Road to Revolution
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Committees of Correspondence
• In November 1772, Samuel Adams began organizing a group of letter writers “Committees of Correspondence” to spread news throughout the colonies about British threats
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Tea Act 1773
• Gave the British East India Company a monopoly of sales of British tea in the colonies
• This would put colonial merchants out of business
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Colonial Reaction to Tea Act
• Samuel Adams and the Committees of Correspondence urged colonists to boycott East India tea.
• The boycott was so effective that most company ships returned to Britain without unloading their cargo
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Boston Tea Party I
• Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson challenged the boycott by not letting the company ships leave Boston harbor without unloading their cargo
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Boston Tea Party II
• On December 16, 1773 member of the “Sons of Liberty,” disguised as Indians, boarded three company ships as hundreds of Bostonians cheered from the docks
• The Sons of Liberty chopped open 342 chests of tea and tossed them into Boston Harbor
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The Intolerable Acts 1774(Coercive Acts)
• King George III declared the “colonies must either submit or triumph.”
• Parliament passed laws to punish Massachusetts
• British navy would blockade Boston harbor until the ruined tea is paid for
• A military governor would rule Massachusetts
• British soldiers would be housed and fed by colonists
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Quartering Act of 1774
• As a punishment for the Boston Tea Party the city of Boston had to house and feed British soldiers.
• This was a means to stop the protests and violence against British property and officials
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Colonial Reaction to Intolerable Acts
• When the Boston harbor was closed colonists throughout the colonies closed their shops in sympathy
• Flags flew at half mast• Donations of food and
money were sent to Boston• Virginia’s legislature
proposed a day of fasting and prayer for the people of Boston
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Quebec Act 1774• Passed by the British
Parliament to create a British government in Canada.
• Quebec would be ruled by a governor with no elected legislature.
• Quebec territory was expanded to include most of the land between the thirteen colonies and the Mississippi River
• The Colonists saw this as a threat to their self government
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First Continental Congress I
• In September 1774 delegates from all the colonies except Georgia met in Philadelphia
• Patrick Henry urged the delegates to consider their selves as Americans and not from individual colonies
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First Continental Congress II• Delegates disagreed on what
the British could do to the colonies but all disagreed with the Intolerable Acts
• Congress recommended every county, city and town form committees to enforce boycotts on British goods
• If all else failed the colonies would resist in force
• Congress would meet again the following May if Britain did not change its ways
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First Continental Congress III• Congress approved a
Declaration of Rights and Grievances
• Condemned the Intolerable Acts
• Affirmed the rights to life, liberty, and property
• Denied Parliaments right to tax the colonies
• In case all this did not work many colonists rushed to from militias