1. Building Colonial Unity
Chapter 5: Section 2

2. Trouble in Boston
1768
Parliament sends troops to Boston to prevent rebellion
Colonists are upset
British violated colonial rights
Sent an army to occupy colonial cities
British soliders acted rudely and violently towards colonists
Stole goods
Competed for jobs

3. The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770
Fight between Bostonians and soldiers
Angry Bostonians moved toward customhouse, where British taxes were collected
Crowd threw sticks and stones at the soldiers
One soldier is knocked down
British soldiers open fire, killing five colonists

4. Colonial Leaders use this even as propaganda
Crispus Attucks, a dockworker who was part African and part Native American is killed.
Colonial Leaders use this even as propaganda
Propaganda: Information made to influence public opinion
Paul Revere creates an engraving of the event
Samuel Adams puts up posters

5. Committees of Correspondence
Parliament repealed all of the Townshend Acts taxes except the one on tea
The colonists who had been boycotting, ended their boycott except for the one on tea
1772
The Boston committee of correspondence begins airing the colonies’ grievances against Great Britain
Samuel Adams
Committees of Correspondence
Spread throughout the colonies
Unite colonists who disagree with British policies

6. The Tea Act 1773: British East India Company faced bankruptcy
Allowed the company a virtual monopoly of tea in America
Company could sell its tea directly to shopkeepers and bypass colonial merchants
Merchants called for a new boycott

7. The Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773 Boston Harbor
Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawks boarded 3 tea ships
Threw 342 chests of tea overboard

8. The Coercive Acts
1774
Harsh laws intended to punish the people of Massachusetts
Closed Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for
Prevented the arrival of food and other supplies from entering Boston Harbor
Banned most town meetings in New England
Forced Bostonians to shelter soldiers in their homes

9. The other colonies sent food and clothing to support Boston
Quebec Act
Set up a government for Quebec
Gave Quebec the area west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River
Ignored colonists claim to the land
Colonists name the Coercive Acts and the Quebec Act: the Intolerable Acts