●Do you agree with the Sons of Liberty’s approach to stopping the tea from being unloaded? (the Tea Party) Why or Why not?

●What was Pontiac’s Rebellion and why is it important?

Challenge Question:The British East India Tea Company would cost the colonists less than the smuggled Dutch tea, even after the tax. Why do you suppose the colonists still refused the tea?

Objective (I Can…)Describe the events of the Boston Tea Party and how the Intolerable Acts led to the start

of the Revolutionary War

Brain Quest

Boston Tea Party●Colonists were outraged by the Tea Act, which allowed the British East India Company to cut out colonial merchants and sell tea directly to the colonists.

●Colonists called for a boycott on tea●The Daughters of Liberty served coffee or liberty tea, which was made from raspberry leaves.

●The Sons of Liberty did their part by refusing to allow tea ships to unload their cargo.

●Three British East India Company ships arrive in Boston Harbor. These ships carried tea to be sold to colonists. Under the Tea Act, colonists must still pay the tea tax.

●The law says:●Cargo must be unloaded and the tax must be paid within 20 days or else all of the tea would be seized by the government

●The Sons of Liberty refused to allow the ship’s crew to unload the cargo

●Colonists’ demanded:They didn’t want the tax on tea, so they wanted the ships to go back to England with the tea and without paying the tax.

November 1773

December 1773●“Boston Harbor a Teapot Tonight!”

●Result:

● What was the “message” that the colonists were trying to send with the Boston Tea Party?

● Key Idea:● The British were outraged by the Boston Tea Party.

● The British respond by passing a series of laws called the Coercive acts, which were known to colonists as the Intolerable Acts

● Some colonists began to think the time was coming to break away and govern themselves.

Effects of the Boston Tea Party

Coercive/Intolerable Acts1. Boston Harbor was closed until the tea

was repaid2. No town meetings without the governor’s

permission3. British officials charged with major crimes

would be tried back in England4. New Quartering Act: more soldiers in

Boston that colonists had to pay for5. New Governor: General Thomas Gage6. Quebec Act: Some of the MA land was given

to Quebec Colony7. Massachusetts charted was cancled

●Albany Plan of Union