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Students happily playing basketball Britain and colonies have good relations
prior to 1763 because colonists are
allowed to govern themselves
Student Council Minutes Colonial assemblies make their own laws
British government left students alone
No adults allowed
Colonies far away from Britain
Principal’s office away from Britain
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New Rules Proclamation of 1763
Half-court Colonists may not cross the
Appalachian Mountains to settle.
Pay to use Stamp Act – Colonists would have to
pay a tax on items that are
stamped, such as
paper, newspapers, wills, licenses, and
playing cards
Students funds will pay supervisors
Quartering Act – Colonists are forced to
house and take care of British soldiers
in their own homes
Student’s anger
Colonists protest by ignoring
laws, petitioning, and rioting
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Man staffing the stand Charles Townshend
Sign reading “Equipment Rental” Taxes imposed on everyday items (glass,
paint, paper and tea) by Townshend
Acts
Male student yelling friends not to use Sons of Liberty boycott of British goods
basketballs
Female student walking away Daughters of Liberty helped the boycott
by making items at home
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Vice principal and security guard British troops in Boston
Protesting students Patriot mob yells and teases the soldiers
Captain tries to get people to go home.
Vice principal’s threat to suspend But British fire upon the crowd. Five
colonists are killed. This event was
used as propaganda to raise the
colonists’ emotions against the British.
This event became known as “The
Boston Massacre.”
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Sign reading “Cafeteria food only” Colonists forced to buy tea from British
East India Company
Male student throwing lunch into trash Sons of Liberty dump tea into Boston
Harbor
Male student cheering in the John Adams celebrating the Boston Tea
background Party
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Students given detention Britain punishes Bostonians with
several harsh laws:
1. Closed Boston Harbor
2. government of Boston under British
control – no town meetings
3. British soldiers who were accused of
murder would be tried in England not
in the colonies
4. More troops sent to Boston
Female student angry at male student Loyalists believe Bostonians have gone
too far
Protest letters Letter from First Continental Congress
to King George – Olive Branch Petition
– urged the king to consider their
complaints and to recognize their rights
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Principal King George
Principal’s statement British consider stronger action, such as
sending troops into Boston, to stop the
rebellion
Running female student Paul Revere and William Dawes warn
colonists of the impending attack
