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Building Colonial Unity 1768-1774
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Boston Center of shipping and protests
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British Reaction Parliament sends two regiments to Boston.
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Boston Massacre March 5, 1770, colonists fired upon. Five killed, including Crispus Attucks, a former slave.
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Paul Revere Boston Massacre is dramatized by his engraving.
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Trial Nine soldiers are tried for murder. Defended by John Adams, Josiah Quincy Jr. All found not guilty but two.
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Colonial/British Reaction Colonists boycott British goods. Parliament repeals Townshend Acts except small tax on tea.
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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.
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Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773: Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians, dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.
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King George III George III instructs Parliament to pass a series of Acts known as the Coercive Acts.
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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.
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