Road to RevolutionPart 2

Cornell Notes

Topic/Objective: To identify KEY people, events, and Acts leading to the Am Revolution

Essential Question: What KEY events and people turned colonists against the British and led to the Am Revolution?

* Boston Tea Party - 1773

1) After Britain continued to tax tea, colonists protest by dumping Br tea into Boston Harbor.

2) 92,000 lbs of tea destroyed, worth $1 million

* Boston Tea Party - 1773

3) Boston Tea Party was planned by a secret rebel organization called the Sons of Liberty.

4) S of L plotted against Br policies.

* Intolerable Acts - 1774

1) Br shut down

Boston Harbor to

ALL trade until

ruined tea was

paid for

2) Br sent more

troops to Boston

to enforce Br laws

on colonists in the

Mass colony.

* Intolerable Acts - 1774

3) Replaced colonial

elected positions

w/officials appointed

by the King & P.

4) Outlawed colonists

from town meetings

* Loyalists vs Patriots

1) Def’n: Loyalists

• Colonists who stayed loyal to the Crown (Britain)

• Wanted to remain under British rule (~ 20% of pop)

* Loyalists vs Patriots (Trailer 2:40)

2) Def’n: Patriots

• Colonists who favored a rebellion against Br

• Wanted to be free of Br

rule

• Trying to overthrow the

Br gov’t considered an

act of treason, punished

by death

* Loyalists vs Patriots

3) Def’n of Minutemen• All-volunteer

company of armed

civilians trained to

fight “at a minute’s

warning.”• Made up 25% (1/4) of

the Continental Army

* Patrick Henry - March 1775

AaA ● Patriot from Virginia

● Gave a powerful speech stating, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

● His speech persuaded fellow Virginians to arm in self-defense against the Br.

* Thomas Paine & “Common Sense”

1) Thomas Paine

• Recent immigrant from England/Britain.

• Believed that ALL men, (not just landowners) had a right to vote

• Against ALL gov’ts ruled by a monarchy (royal rulers)

• Called King George III “the Royal Brute”

Common Sense – Jan. 1776

2) “Common Sense”

• Name of pamphlet written by T.P.

• Challenged the authority of the Br P and King George III

• 1st publication to argue that the colonists should seek independence from Great Br.