1. 5.2 Uniting the Colonists

2. 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

3. 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***

4. 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

5. Assignment
Progress Check pg 123 and pg 125
Lesson Review pg 123 # 2-4