Colonial Resistance Grows Part One

Tightening British Controls Further Townshend Acts – 1767, placed taxes on numerous imports, like glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.

-Law also allowed British officers to issue writs of assistance – search warrants to enter homes and businesses to search for smuggled or illegal goods.

Colonists Protest In response to Townshend Acts, merchants in Boston organize another boycott… – Colonial leaders advise against violence, but England fears disorder, sending more troops

Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770) Colonists gathered around soldiers in front of the State House, trading insults  shouting, throwing snowballs.  crowd grew larger  soldiers thought attack coming  fired into the crowd

5 people were killed British soldiers seen as evil; dead colonists seen as heroes. Soldiers arrested for murder, but found not guilty due to self-defense

The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street, Boston by Paul Revere. (engraving)

Boston Massacre March by John Bufford. (chromolithograph)

Revere’s Engraving Bufford’s Chromolithograph