Building Colonial Unity1768-1774

BostonCenter of shipping and protests

British ReactionParliament sends two regiments to Boston.

Boston MassacreMarch 5, 1770, colonists fired upon. Five killed, including Crispus Attucks, a former slave.

Paul RevereBoston Massacre is dramatized by his engraving.

TrialNine soldiers are tried for murder. Defended by John Adams, Josiah Quincy Jr. All found not guilty but two.

Colonial/British ReactionColonists boycott British goods. Parliament repeals Townshend Acts

except small tax on tea.

Tea Act of 1773Meant to help the British East India Company. Special Trade

rules given. Allowed their tea price to be lower than smugglers.

Boston Tea PartyDecember 16, 1773: Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk

Indians, dump 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor.

King George IIIGeorge III instructs Parliament to pass a series of Acts known

as the Coercive Acts.

Intolerable ActsCoercive 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.