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Propaganda and the American Revolution “COMMON SENSE” AND THE BOSTON MASSACRE DO NOW Objective: SWBAT analyze propaganda Do Now question: what are the forms of protestation we talked about yesterday? POP QUIZ Describe the Boston Tea Party (who, what, when, where, why) Describe “tar and feathering” and what was it’s purpose. Describe “boycott” and how it was used. What does the term “taxation without representation” mean and why was it important to the colonists? AMERICA WAS A COLONY OF BRITAIN America was a colony of Britain – they still had some form of British rule, even though they mostly ruled on their own As a colony, America was expected to provide natural resources to trade with Britain and pay taxes It was in Britain’s financial ($) interest to keep America as a colony PROPAGANDA A way to persuade people to see the author’s way of thinking “COMMON SENSE” “Common Sense”: a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine as propaganda to convince the colonists that they should go to war with Britain BOSTON MASSACRE Massacre: when a lot of unarmed people are killed during one event Boston Massacre (1770): five rioting colonists were shot at by the British and killed Boston Massacre was not actually a massacre, but it was made to look like one in order to create more propaganda
