A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

How would you most likely respond to taunting?

A. Ignore it

B. Cry

C. Respond verbally

D. Respond violently

A B C D

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Chapter 5 The Spirit of Independence (1763-1776)

Section 2 Building Colonial Unity

How did the colonists react to British policies?

Trouble in Boston• By 1768, protests by the

colonists were making British colonial officials nervous

• Colonies were on the brink of rebellion

• Parliament sent troops to Boston

• Colonists felt the British pushed them too far

• First the British had passed laws that violated colonial rights

• Now they sent an army to occupyoccupy (control) colonial cities

Making Matters Worse

• The soldiers in Boston acted rudely

• Sometimes even violently toward colonists

• The Redcoats earned little pay• Some stole goods from local

shops• Some fought with boys who

taunted them• The soldiers often competed

for jobs that Bostonians wanted

Problems Continue• March 5, 1770- A fight

between Bostonians and the soldiers

• A man shouts “We did not send for you. We will not have you here. We will get rid of you, we’ll drive you away!”

• The angry townspeople move toward the customhouse, where taxes were collected

• Picked up stones, sticks, clubs, and snowballs

• The sentry panicked and called for help

The Crowd Grows• The crowd starts

throwing snowballs and other objects

• Yelling at the crowd “Fire you bloodybacks, you lobsters”

• “You dare not fire.”• A soldier gets

knocked down• The Soldiers got

nervous

The Boston Massacre• The soldiers fired• Killed 5 colonists• One Bostonian cried: “Are

the inhabitants to be knocked down in the streets?”

• “Are they to be murdered?”• Among the dead was

Crispus AttucksCrispus Attucks, a dockworker who was part African, part Native American

• The tragic encounterencounter (unexpected meeting) was called the Boston Massacre

The Word Spreads• The killings were used as

propagandapropaganda by colonial leaders• Information made to influence

public opinion• Paul Revere made an engraving

of the event• Showed the British firing on an

orderly crowd• Boycotts spread after this and

Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts

• Only the tax on tea remained• Trade with Britain continued• Some colonial leaders called for

resistance to British rule• Committees of Committees of

CorrespondenceCorrespondence were set up

A Crisis Over Tea• 1773- The British East India

Company faced ruin• To save the company,

Parliament passed the Tea Tea ActAct

• Gave the Company a monopoly on tea trade

• Made tea cheaper than smuggled tea, but helped the British

• Colonists vowed to stop the Company’s ships from unloading

• People stopped drinking tea (Many started drinking coffee)

More Tea Crisis• Ships were sent

away

• Cargoes of tea was unloaded in damp cellars making it rot

• Three tea ships arrived in Boston in late 1773

• The Royal governor refused to let them leave and ordered them to be unloaded

Unloading The Tea• The Sons of Liberty

“helped” unload the tea• December 16th- Men

disguised as Mohawks boarded the ships at midnight

• Threw 342 chests of tea overboard

• Became known as the Boston Tea Party

• Colonists gathered to celebrate

• No one wanted to break with Britain

• Most saw themselves as British citizens

King George IIIKing George III• Heard the news of the

Boston Tea Party• He realized he was

losing control of the colonies

• King George III said “We must master them or totally leave them alone”

• British Government passed the Coercive Acts in 1774

• Intended to punish the colonists

Coercive Acts• Closed Boston

Harbor until the tea was paid for

• Town meetings were banned in New England

• Bostonians had to shelter (Quarter) soldiers

• Boston was isolated, but other colonies sent food and clothing to support Boston

• Parliament then passed the Quebec Act

Quebec Act• Set up a government

for Quebec• Gave Quebec the area

west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River

• This ignored colonial claims of this area

• The colonists expressed their feelings in their name for the new laws

• The Intolerable Acts

A. A

B. B

C. C

D. D

A B

C

D

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What did the colonists call the new laws passed by the British government?

A. The Intolerable Acts

B. The Revolutionary Acts

C. The Boston Massacre

D. The Coercive Acts

How did the colonists react to British policies?

-Colonists objected to the occupation of Boston and used the Boston Massacre as anti-British Propaganda.

-The Tea Act spurred protest throughout the colonies, but especially in Massachusetts, where colonists staged the Boston Tea Party.

-The Coercive Acts led other colonies to support Massachusetts and oppose British policies.

Chapter 5 Section 2 Quiz

Twenty colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre.

Tru

e

Fal

se

50%50%A. True

B. False

Boycotts following the Boston Massacre helped repeal the Townshend Acts.

Tru

e

Fal

se

50%50%A. True

B. False

The committee of correspondence was a system of letter writing between the colonial

governors and the king.

Tru

e

Fal

se

50%50%A. True

B. False

At the time of the Boston Tea Party, most colonists still considered themselves as

British citizens.

Tru

e

Fal

se

50%50%A. True

B. False

Parliament successfully isolated Boston from the rest of the colonies by passing the

Coercive Acts.

Tru

e

Fal

se

50%50%A. True

B. False

When Britain learned that the colonies were on the brink of rebellion in 1768, Parliament

responded by

clo

sing

Boston H

arbor

.

sen

ding a

lette

r to th

e...

sen

ding tr

oops

to B

o...

doin

g noth

ing.

25% 25%25%25%A. closing Boston Harbor.

B. sending a letter to the colonies.

C. sending troops to Boston.

D. doing nothing.

Anti-British feelings among the colonists grew more intense because of propaganda

like Paul Revere's engraving of the

Bost

on M

assa

cre.

Into

lera

ble A

cts.

Lib

erty

Affa

ir.

Bost

on Tea

Par

ty.

25% 25%25%25%A. Boston Massacre.

B. Intolerable Acts.

C. Liberty Affair.

D. Boston Tea Party.

Which act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?

Sugar

Act

Dec

lara

tory

Act

Tea

Act

Sta

mp

Act

25% 25%25%25%A. Sugar Act

B. Declaratory Act

C. Tea Act

D. Stamp Act

Some colonists celebrated the dramatic act of defiance known as the

Into

lera

ble A

cts.

Coer

cive

Act

s.

Bost

on M

assa

cre.

Bost

on Tea

Par

ty.

25% 25%25%25%A. Intolerable Acts.

B. Coercive Acts.

C. Boston Massacre.

D. Boston Tea Party.

The colonial name for laws that banned town meetings in New England was

the

Navig

atio

n Act

s.

the

Into

lera

ble

Acts.

the

Coerci

ve A

cts.

the

Boston T

ea P

arty

.

25% 25%25%25%A. the Navigation Acts.

B. the Intolerable Acts.

C. the Coercive Acts.

D. the Boston Tea Party.

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