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Conflicts in the Colonies 5.4 On the Eve of Revolution
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Townshend Acts 1767 New series of indirect taxes on… glass, lead, paint, paper, & tea Writs of Assistance: blank search warrants used to control smuggling. Led to more large-scale boycotts!
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Sons of Liberty Attack Customs Agents MA Governor calls British troops to Boston & dissolves MA legislature
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Quartering Act Required colonists to house & supply British soldiers!
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John Hancock
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Boston Massacre March 5, 1770 British soldiers harassed by angry mob. Accidental shots kill 5 Bostonians Propaganda brands soldiers as murderers.
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John Adams defended the Soldiers at their trial. Found Not Guilty Found Not Guilty
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The Tea Act 1773 Parliament allowed the struggling British East India Company to have a monopoly in American Tea Sales. American merchants fear being ruined! Bostonians won’t allow the Tea to be unloaded.
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Sons of Liberty board 3 British ships & dump 90,000 lbs. of Tea into the harbor! Boston Tea Party (Dec. 16 1773)
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Intolerable Acts 1774 Punished Boston for Tea Party Closed Boston Harbor Canceled MA Charter Moved trials to Britain MA legislature under royal governor
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Quebec Act Put Ohio country under Canadian jurisdiction. Colonists lose land claims!
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Mercy Otis Warren Playwright
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