Chapter 5 Section 2 Building Colonial Unity Page 136-139 Key terms Propaganda: Information designed to influence opinion Committee of Correspondence: They circulated writings about colonists’ protest against Britain Objectives Students will be able to describe how the Colonist had disputes with the British and how Britain tried to control the Colonist

I. Trouble in Boston 1768 The Liberty (ship) was seized, belonging to Patrick Henry. Bostonians went on a protest against the British. Which they set up camps right in the middle of town. Bostonians already didn’t like the Redcoats, because they bossed the citizens, acted rudely, scuffled with those that jeered them, and worked valuable colonial jobs in their off time.

A. The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770Five people killed in Boston Massacre, Towns people armed with clubs, sticks, stones and shovels ascended on guards on duty on King street. They threw stones, oyster shells, snowballs, and pieces of wood at the guards. They fired into the crown leaving five colonist dead in the street. Crispus Attucks, a half native American and African American was identified as one of the dead.

B. The Word Spreads Colonial leaders use the massacre as propaganda to influence opinion against the British. They boycotted products. The British remove all Townsend Act taxes except the one on tea. 1772 Samuel Adams revived the Committee of Correspondence to circulate the colonial news of grievances against the British.

II. The Crisis over Tea A. The British East India Tea Company was allowed to by-pass high taxes on tea with the 1773 Tea Act. They could sell strait to shops, low priced tea. The colonial merchants could only sell higher priced tea.

B. Colonial Demands Colonist argued the Tea Act was another attempt to crush colonists’ liberty. The East India Company sent four ships to the colonies. New York and Philadelphia turned their ship back to sea. Charles Town seized the Tea and put it in a warehouse. Boston makes history.

C. The Boston Tea Party 1773 The ships (3) arrive in Boston Harbor. The Royal Governor whose house was burned during the Stamp Act protest wouldn’t allow the ships sent back to sea. Adams and the Sons of Liberty went to work. December 16 midnight 342 chest of tea was dumped overboard.

D. The Intolerable Acts King George III heard the news and knew he was losing control of the colonies. He and Parliament passed The Coercive Acts to punish the people of Massachusetts for resistance. The Harbor was closed until the tea was paid for, no food came in, no meetings could be held, any Royal officers charge with crimes were tried in outside courts not Boston, soldiers could live in the houses with colonist in Boston, “Other colonies sent food to Boston, to show support. Britain passes the Quebec Act to make life worse, which granted religious freedom to French Catholics, and allowed them their own government, and gave the land west of Appalachians and North of Ohio river to Canada. Colonist already had plans for the Ohio Valley.