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Building Colonial Unity

Trouble in Boston

  • Colonist protesting new laws and taxes
  • This made British officials nervous so they sent troops to occupy colonial cities

The Boston Massacre

  • March 5, 1770
  • Some soldiers tried to calm the crowd
  • Crowd moved in screaming and throwing sticks, stones, and clubs at the soldiers
  • Redcoats got nervous and fired - five colonists were killed
  • Colonial leaders used the killings as propoganda
  • Colonists called for stronger boycotts on British goods
  • Britain repealed Townshend Acts taxes, except on tea

Crisis over tea

  • Parliament passed Tea Act to save East India Company
  • Angered Colonists and they vowed to stop the ships from unloading tea
  • Many colonists force shipped to turn around and leave before they even unloaded

Coercive "Intolerable" Acts

  • Closed Boston Harbor until Colonist paid for the tea
  • Forced them to shelter soldiers in their own homes
  • Quebec Act - gave Quebec a gov't and land west of the Appalachian mountains

British taxes and laws

Colonial Protest

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