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Question of the Day

Question of the Day. Look at the two images of the Boston Massacre and answer the following questions on each picture List five things you notice in the image. A. ____________________________________________________________________________

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Question of the Day

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  1. Question of the Day Look at the two images of the Boston Massacre and answer the following questions on each picture List five things you notice in the image. A. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ B. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ C. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ D. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ E. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ How are these images alike? Use specific examples. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ How are these images different? Use specific examples. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________

  2. Opinionated title It’s Daylight? Butchers Hall? All citizens are unarmed Perfect line of soldiers firing into the crowd Officer ordering troops to fire Dead Colonists bleeding All soldiers are smiling

  3. Colonists surround soldiers Bostonians are Armed with clubs Soldier on the ground

  4. Townshend Duties Crisis: 1767-1770 1767 William Pitt, P. M. & Charles Townshend pass the Townshend Acts • Taxed: paper, paint, lead, glass, tea, & dyes

  5. Colonial Response to the Townshend Duties 1.1768: Daughters of Liberty* Women in Massachusetts refuse to drink tea*Spinning bees: They start making their own clothes 2.Riots against customs agents:* John Hancock’s ship, the Liberty.* 4000 British troops sent to Boston.

  6. Costs of Colonial Resistance

  7. Boston Massacre Reading Activity • A, B, C- Students will read the Boston Gazette Article out loud and answer the handout questions • Each student will read a paragraph and call on another student. • Does this seem accurate to you? • John Adams Clip- Funeral

  8. You decide what happened! You are the jury in the Boston Massacre Trial. Using both the Boston Gazette article, the Revere cartoon, and the John Adams clip, decide whether you would find the British soldiers guilty or not guilty. Explain your answer.

  9. Possible answer • Captain Preston- Not Guilty • The British certainly overreacted to the situation but they were faced with a unruly mob daring them to fire while throwing assorted items at them. Fire only commenced after one Bostonian has clubbed one soldier in the head. Based on the position of Preston at the time of the shooting there was no way that he had ordered anyone to fire. It was most likely a Bostonian who’s taunts of “fire” were what the soldiers hear before firing on the mob.

  10. Agenda • 1. Question of the Day- New topic • Read through the lyrics of the protest song Rich Lady over the sea and answer the questions • Homework: Boston Tea Party Gazette Article • Homework: Bring in Current event article 2. Finish Boston Massacre video

  11. Boston Tea Party The Revolution: Boston Bloody Boston (19:07-20:30)

  12. Tea Act (1773) • British East India Co.: • Monopoly on Br. tea imports. • Many members of Parl. held shares. • Permitted the Co. to sell tea directly to cols. without col. middlemen (cheaper tea!) • GBexpected the cols. to eagerly choose the cheaper tea.

  13. The Boston Tea Party • Colonists dressed up like Mohawk Indians and boarded three British ships full of tea. • The colonists dumped all the tea into the harbor, about 90,000 pounds. • King George III was furious!

  14. Eyewitness: George Hewes • As a class, read through the eyewitness account of the Boston tea party. Answer the following two questions. • Did the colonists give GB a chance to avoid the Boston Tea Party. If so, how could it have been prevented? • How did the protesters treat their members who stole tea rather than dump it into the ocean? Why do you believe they would do this? • The mob, led by Sam Adams, gave Hutchinson a chance to allow the tea to be sent back to England. Hutchinson promised the colonists a response by 5pm but left for Milton instead. Left with no chance of the British backing down, the colonists tossed the tea • There were several individuals who stole tea. These people were stripped of their possessions and beaten by the other participants. The protesters were protesting a just cause. Theft would undermine it.

  15. Assignment • Homework: Read the Boston Gazette Article on the Boston Tea Party and Answer the questions

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