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Chapter 11, Lesson 1
Town Meeting: earliest form of self-government
Other Colonial Plans of Government included those listed on page 287
Royal Governors:
not elected; chosen by king
followed British laws
could dissolve or shut down the assembly
House of Burgesses
Print money
Taxes
Roads
Land laws
Prepare for war
militia: a type of army made up of volunteers
Delegates to Assembly
Adult, white, male
Land owner
Protestant
Most were merchants & lawyers
Open voting in early elections
John Peter Zenger
Newspaper printer
Printed bad stories about governor
Put in jail and on trial
Found not guilty
Freedom of Speech
Phillis Wheatley
Enslaved African
Taught to read and write
Published book of poetry urging freedom for all
Chapter 11, Lesson 2
Liberty: freedom
Rebel: refuse to obey those in charge because of different beliefs
Taxation without representation: colonists were paying taxes to Great Britain, but had no say
in who governed them.
The Stamp Act of 1765: colonists had to pay a tax on newspapers, pamphlets, documents.
(stamp showed tax had been paid)
Treason: betrayal of one’s country
Patrick Henry accused of treason for rebelling against the Stamp Act.
Sons of Liberty
Colonial groups formed to fight British rule
Attacked British agents
Forced some to quit their jobs
Stamp Act was repealed (canceled)
Townshend Acts
Named for Charles Townshend
Colonists had to pay tax on tea, paper, glass,
lead, and paint imported from Britain.
Boycott: refuse to buy
Daughters of Liberty: women’s group supporting
boycott
Mercy Otis Warren: playwright, encouraged women
to give up tea, etc.
Boston Massacre
Britain sent soldiers to control colonists
Colonists grew angry
Called soldiers lobsters
Crispus Attucks said to attack main guard
Soldiers fired shots
5 men killed
Soldiers arrested
John Adams defends them
Committees of Correspondence
Each colony wrote to inform of important
political events
Chapter 11, Lesson 2 continued
Townshend Act repealed, but tax on tea remained
Boston Tea Party
Colonists disguised as Mohawk boarded ship
Dumped over 300 chests of tea
Governor did not know who to charge
Parliament decided to close the port in Boston
Town meetings banned
Colonists forced to house soldiers
Colonists called these actions the Intolerable Acts
Committees of Correspondence sent Boston the goods they needed so they didn’t have to pay for
the tea.
Chapter 11, Lesson 3
Petition: written request signed by many people
Minutemen: ready for battle at a minute’s notice
First Continental Congress
September 5, 1774
All colonies except Georgia
Asked for repeal of Intolerable Acts
Claimed they had right to make own laws
Agreed to stop trade with Britain
Gathered minutemen
Revolution: sudden, violent, great change
American Revolution began within a year
All men were part of militia, even some Africans
Chapter 11, Lesson 3, people places
Lexington: town in eastern Massachusetts, site of one of 1st battles of the revolution
Concord: town in eastern Massachusetts, site of one of 1st battles of the revolution
Fort Ticonderoga: fort on Lake Champlain, New York, site of important battles of revolution
Charlestown: town in Massachusetts across the Charles River from Boston. Battle of Bunker
Hill was near here.
Battle of Bunker Hill: costly British victory in 1775 over colonial forces at a site near
Charleston
John Hancock: patriot and pres. Of Continental Congress 1775-1777, signed Dec. of Ind.
Paul Revere: patriot, silversmith, warned people of Lexington the British were coming
William Dawes: patriot who rode with Paul Revere
John Parker: patriot captain at Battle of Lexington where 1st shots were fired
Ethan Allen: leader of the Green Mountain Boys, Vermont militiamen who captured Fort
Ticonderoga
Israel Putnam: patriot general at Battle of Bunker Hill
Peter Salem: patriot, former slave, killed British colonel at Battle of Bunker Hill