Chapter 8, Lesson 3: Disagreements Grow

Standards and Objectives

PO 1.  Describe the significance of the following events leading to the American Revolution

• Tea Act
  
• Intolerable Acts
  

PO 2.  Describe the significance of the following events in the Revolutionary War:

• The battles of Lexington and Concord, Saratoga
  

Objectives:

1. Explain why the colonists refused to accept the new laws passed by Parliament. 
2. Describe why fighting broke out at Lexington and Concord.
   

Vocabulary

monopoly p. 311
blockade p. 312
quarter p. 312
petition p. 313
Minutemen p. 314
revolution p. 315

Links and Resources

Liberty Kids Videos
"The Boston Tea Party"
"The Intolerable Acts" (Coercive Acts)
"United We Stand"
"Liberty or Death"
"Midnight Ride of Paul Revere"
"The Shot Heard Round the World"

Boston Tea Party

Watch mini-video/slide show of the Boston Tea Party.
Colonial Economy video explains why colonist printed their own money. (2:36)

The Coercive Acts (Intolerable Acts)