5.2 Uniting the Colonists
Trouble in Massachusetts Britain occupied Boston (redcoats) Tension in Streets – Boston Massacre (5 colonists shot by redcoats in a fight) Spreading the News: Boston Massacre used as propaganda boycott against GB grew GB removed Townshend Act, except on Tea colonist boycott tea Committees of Correspondence (anti-GB) developed throughout the colonies
Cries in Boston British East India Co (BEIC) relied on colonies for $$ (especially tea $$) Parliament passes Tea Act to help BEIC (gave all tea control to BEIC and removed almost all of the tea tax) Colonists still made b/c there is still SOME tax on tea Tea Party: 1773 Boston Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and threw tea overboard BEIC ships *** Very oddly…most colonists still saw themselves as loyal British citizens***
Intolerable Acts 1774 Coercive Acts: laws to punish colonists for resisting British authority All colonies must allow soldiers to live in colonial homes Massachusetts: Town meetings banned, closed Boston Harbor until ruined tea paid for COERCIVE ACT BRINGS COLONIES TOGETHER – colonies send food/supplies to Mass. Colonists Quebec Act – gave land/gov’t to Canada in Ohio River Valley (part of colony that Washington fought for and won) Colonists called these acts the Intolerable Acts
Assignment Progress Check pg 123 and pg 125 Lesson Review pg 123 # 2-4