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Colonial Resistance Grows Part One
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Tightening British Controls Further Townshend Acts – 1767, placed taxes on numerous imports, like glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea.
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-Law also allowed British officers to issue writs of assistance – search warrants to enter homes and businesses to search for smuggled or illegal goods.
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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
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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
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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
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The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street, Boston by Paul Revere. (engraving)
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Boston Massacre March 5 1770 by John Bufford. (chromolithograph)
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Revere’s Engraving Bufford’s Chromolithograph
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