1. Building Colonial Unity 1768-1774

2. Boston Center of shipping and protests

3. British Reaction Parliament sends two regiments to Boston.

4. Boston Massacre March 5, 1770, colonists fired upon. Five killed, including Crispus Attucks, a former slave.

5. Paul Revere Boston Massacre is dramatized by his engraving.

6. Trial Nine soldiers are tried for murder. Defended by John Adams, Josiah Quincy Jr. All found not guilty but two.

7. Colonial/British Reaction Colonists boycott British goods. Parliament repeals Townshend Acts except small tax on tea.

8. Tea Act of 1773 Meant to help the British East India Company. Special Trade rules given. Allowed their tea price to be lower than smugglers.

9. Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773: Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians, dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

10. King George III George III instructs Parliament to pass a series of Acts known as the Coercive Acts.

11. Intolerable Acts Coercive Acts: 1.Closed Boston Harbor. 2.Required Bostonians to pay for damages. 3.Banned town meetings. Colonists so angry, they called measures The Intolerable Acts.