1. Uniting the Colonies Unit 3 Ch. 5.2
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2. I. Massachusetts Protests flare British nervous
Colonist Rebellion = rejection of British authority
Redcoats set up camp in the center of the city
Colonist believe this violated colonial rights
Occupy – take control of
Redcoats = poor and “rude”
Competed for jobs Bostonians wanted

3. B. Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 British officers try to calm a crowd
“We did not send for you. We will not have you here. We’ll get rid of you, we’ll drive you away!”
Townspeople = angry & throw stick and stones at soldiers
“Come on, you rascals, you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire, if you dare.”
Soldier knocked down, redcoat fires, five colonist dead
Crispus Attucks = dockworker, part African

4. C. Spreading the News Propaganda Massacre led for stronger boycotts
Samuel Adams makes posters describing the Boston Massacre as a slaughter of innocent Americans
Paul Revere engraving shows Redcoat ordering the fire
Massacre led for stronger boycotts
Townshend Acts repealed tax on imports EXCEPT for tea
1772, Samuel Adams = Boston Committee of Correspondence = protestors

5. D. Crisis in Boston British East India Company = vital to economy
Boycotts = bad for business
Tea Act = gave BEIC nearly total control of the tea market, removed some of the tax but forced colonist to buy British tea
Daughters of Liberty issue a pamphlet = “We’ll part with our tea”

6. E. The Tea Party
1773, three ships arrive in the Boston Harbor (with tea)
Boston Sons of Liberty,
December 16th
Midnight
Dressed as Native Americans board the ship
Throw 342 chests of tea overboard

7. F. The Intolerable Acts
King George III = “We must either master them or totally leave them to themselves.”
1774, Parliament passes series of laws = The Coercive Acts = applies to ALL colonies
Banned town meetings in Mass.
Closed Boston Harbor
Stopped shipments of food
Drew colonies together = sent food to Boston

8. G. The Quebec Act Law created a govt. for Canada
Extended territory south to the Ohio River
Ignored colonies’ claims to the region

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