Hist 1101 US History to 1877 Week 3, Group 2 Assignment.

1. EIGHT
REVOLUTIONARY
DOMINOS
BY: GROUP 2: CARL RODGERS, CLAYTON HENNESSY, NATE ALDRICH

2. The Boston Tea Party
(Annear, 2017)

3. Underlying Reasons
 The Tea Act of 1773
 Implemented larger tax on Tea for colonists
 Allowed the East India Trading company to import directly to the colonies for
the first time.
 Only allowed tea to be imported by British merchants from England.
 Taxation without representation
 The colonists did not believe it was fair to be taxed by the British government.
 Refusing and returning shipments back to Britain
 Boston Governor refused to let the tea ship Dartmouth leave Boston
without paying the tea tax.

4. The Boston Tea Party
 December 16 1773
 Headed by the Sons of Liberty
 Twenty or so men some dressed as Mohawk Indians
 Dumped over 300 chests of tea into the harbor.
 After Math of the Boston Tea Party
 Other colonies followed suit in the tea dumping up and down the east coast.
 Resulting in loss of income to the British government.

5. The First Continental Congress
(Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum, 2018)

6. Underlying Reasons
 The Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)
 Boston Port Act
 Closed the port of Boston until repayment of losses to the East India Trading Company.
 The Massachusetts Government Act
 Return the control of the British government system.
 The Justice Act
 The ability for accused royal officials to be tried in a different colony than the one that the
crime was accused in.
 Supposed to make the trial fair.
 The Quartering Act
 The ability of the Governor of a colony to house British troops in private homes as he saw
fit.

7. The First Continental Congress
 September 5, 1774
 12 out of 13 colonies attended
 Discussed boycott of British trade until a peaceful solution could be attained.
 Petitioned to the King of England their discrepancies.
 Set a Second Continental Congress meeting in May of 1775 if their demands
were not met by the British government.
 Outcome
 The British Parliament did not address the concerns
 King Richard condemned Massachusetts
 The Continental Congress would meet again in 1775 to declare their
independence from Britain.

8. Boston Massacre

9. Boston Massacre
 Event took place March 5, 1770
 A squad of British Soldiers came to the aid of a lone sentry being heckled by a
growing crowd of patriots
 The mob began throwing rocks, sticks, and snowballs at the soldiers which led
them to open fire into the mob
 Three people were killed immediately and two died later of their wounds
 The British officer in charge, Capt. Thomas Preston, was arrested for
manslaughter, along with eight of his men
 All were later acquitted

10. Boston Massacre Aftermath
 The Boston Massacre was powerful propaganda tool
 Both sides painted starkly different stories in an attempt to sway public
opinion
 Local resistance and threats lead to the withdrawal of troops from Boston
to Castle Island in Boston Harbor
 The removal of troops from Boston and the repeal of all but one of the
contested import duties resulted in a lowering of tension in the years
following the incident
 The withdrawal of the troops showed the impotency of the British forces
when faced with resistance

11. The Quartering Act of 1765

12. Underlying Reasons
 Problem that needed to be solved:
 During peacetime after French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War).
 Lieutenant-General Gage, commander in chief of forces in British North America
 Found it difficult to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for the quartering and
provisioning of British troops.
 Requested parliament find a solution.
 Parliament "went far beyond what Gage had requested," (Boundless, 838 of 8004).
 Colonists had to pay for costs of troops, food and lodging.

13. Resistance to the Act
 British subjects tended to mistrust presence of a standing army during
peacetime.
 Widespread evasion and disregard for the law occurred in almost all the
colonies
 Colonies disputed the legality of this act. Colonies claimed it violated Bill of
Rights of 1689.
 No taxation without representation
 No standing army without the consent of Parliament
 Why now?
 Before the French and Indian war there was no standing army; why was a
standing army needed after the French had been defeated?

14. Enforcement
 1,500 British troops in New York City in 1766
 New York Provincial Assembly refused to comply with the Quartering Act
 Troops had to remain on their ships.
 Skirmish occurred and one colonist was wounded.
 Parliament suspended New York's Governor and Legislature.
 But the Assembly agreed to contribute money toward quartering the troops.

15. Application today
 Our Constitution's Third Amendment restricts the quartering of soldiers in
private homes without the owner's consent.
 Forbids the practice during peacetime.
 The Third Amendment was a direct response to the Quartering Acts.

16. The Glorious Revolution

17. The Glorious Revolution
 Inspired Anglo-American Intellectuals within the colonies.
 Encouraged the ideas of self-government
 Self-government was established among some of the colonies such as
Plymouth colony.

18. Self-Government in the Colonies
 Early colonists like Plymouth colony, were self-governing
 The executive was not under control of the British crown.
 The Mayflower Compact of Plymouth Colony was based on a majoritarian
model.
 The signers sincerely believed that they had the right to govern themselves, being
separated from Britain by an ocean and having founded an entirely new society.
 The idea of self-government was encouraged by the Glorious Revolution and
1689 Bill of Rights.
 The British Parliament, not the King, had the ultimate authority in government.
 Assemblies were elected by local colonists.
 Make local laws that were consistent with the laws of England.
 Governors were elected by the crown.

19. Crown and Parliament Over-Step
 Parliament began to pass laws regulating American colonies:
 Sugar Act - 6 pence tax per gallon of sugar or molasses imported into the colonies.
 Restrictions and bans on products altogether.
 Governors vs. Assemblies
 Governors power could diminish as the colony gained more representative
government.
 Representation could come in the form of an Executive Council to Legislative
Councils and Assemblies.
 Assembly's sometimes shared power with the royally appointed governor.
 "As the revolution drew near, colonial assemblies began forcibly ejecting their
governors from office."

20. Work Cited
 Annear, S. (2017, November 14). You tea could be part of the Boston Tea
Party (reenactment). Retrieved from The Boston Globe:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/14/your-tea-could-part-
boston-tea-party-reenactment/cx1xV4HwvI0ES6Yp3P7PFM/story.html
 Boundless. (2018, January 01). Boundless US History. Retrieved from
Lumen: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-
ushistory/chapter/the-tea-party-and-the-coercive-acts-1770-1774/
 The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. (2018, January 01). Boston Tea
Party Ship. Retrieved from Continental Congress:
https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/first-
continental-congress.jpg

21. Works Cited Continued
 Courts. “The Boston Massacre.” Court System, 6 Dec. 2013,
www.mass.gov/courts/court-info/sjc/edu-res-center/jn-adams/the-boston-
massacre.html.

22. Work Cited Continued
 Image used from https://bostonteapartydme.weebly.com/before-the-tea-
party.html
 Boundless. (2018, January 01). Boundless US History. Retrieved from
Lumen: The Quartering Act of 1765 (838 of 8004).
 Image used from Britannica Kids online:
https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Glorious-Revolution/353186
 Boundless. (2018, January 01). Boundless US History. Retrieved from
Lumen: Self-Government Through the 17th and 18th Centuries (501 of
8004).