Prior knowledge
What is a monopoly?
What does intolerable mean?
Bell work
What are some of the problems we have here in New Haven? Make a list.
Pick two of these problems and explain how taxpayer money could be used to fix them. Be creative.
Taxation without representation
writs of assistance gave the British the right to search a store or home for smuggled goods
Early political cartoon opposing the Stamp Act
Stamps were placed on all printed materials- even playing cards and postage stamps
File:Philip Dawe (attributed), The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring and Feathering (1774) - 02.jpg
Discussion questions
Put yourself in the shoes of the colonists- how would you react to the policies of the British?
What do you think of the tactics of the Sons of Liberty? Were they within reason to do the things they did? Explain.
What is a monopoly?
What does intolerable mean?
Bell work
What are some of the problems we have here in New Haven? Make a list.
Pick two of these problems and explain how taxpayer money could be used to fix them. Be creative.
Taxation without representation
Discussion questions
Put yourself in the shoes of the colonists- how would you react to the policies of the British?
What do you think of the tactics of the Sons of Liberty? Were they within reason to do the things they did? Explain.