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United in Colonial Defiance: Boston Massacre to Tea Party

Explore colonial unity through key events like the Boston Massacre, Tea Act, and Boston Tea Party. Learn about Committees of Correspondence, Coercive Acts, and impact on British-colonist relations.

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United in Colonial Defiance: Boston Massacre to Tea Party

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  1. Section 2: Building Colonial Unity

  2. The Boston Massacre • The British brought more troops into the Boston area to try and keep the peace. An angry mob started throwing things at the soldiers and the soldiers fired, killing five people. • One of the people killed was Crispus Attucks, part African American and part Native American.

  3. Colonial Perspective • From the perspective of people in the colonies, British troops had attacked peaceful townspeople. • This engraving by Paul Revere shows them using propaganda to inflame public opinion against the British.

  4. Committees of Correspondence • These were organized groups dedicated to spreading word about colonial grievances and bringing protestors together. • When tensions lessened, these groups tried to intensify those tensions so that people wouldn’t forget about their grievances. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/circ_let_boston_1774.asp

  5. The Tea Act (1773) • Great Britain passed a law meant to help out the British East India Company. The British only allowed the colonies to import British East India tea. This reduced the company’s surplus of tea.

  6. The Boston Tea Party • A number of colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h5Nh7mggx0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7bswVxuKs

  7. Quartering Act (1765 and 1774) • Since Britain had to keep so many soldiers in the colonies to protect the and their investments, they needed the soldiers to stay somewhere. • The colonies wouldn’t pay the cost of housing them…so the British Parliament required the colonists to house the British troops. • Most colonies (except PA) found ways around the ’65 act. The ‘74 act added on and was a response to the Boston Tea Party.

  8. Defense or Occupation? • Of which right does this remind you? • The right against the quartering of troops. (3rd Amendment to the Bill of Rights.)

  9. The Coercive Acts (1774) • King George III and Parliament decided to punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party. • The Coercive Acts: • Closed Boston Harbor completely until the colonists of Massachusetts paid for the tea • Banned town meetings, ending most self-government in New England • Allowed royal officers to be tried for crimes in other colonies or in Britain

  10. The Quebec Act (1774) • The Quebec Act gave a large portion of the land gained from the French and Indian War to the Province of Quebec, and it gave religious freedom to the Catholics there.

  11. The Intolerable Acts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA3gvcI58_Q

  12. Section 2 Assessment 1) Use these terms in sentences that relate to the Boston Massacre: propaganda, committee of correspondence - Answers vary. 2) How did colonial leaders use the Boston Massacre to their advantage? - The event was used as propaganda to drum up support against the British. 3) Why were committees of correspondence powerful organizations? - They spread political ideas and united opposition to British rule.

  13. Section 2 Assessment 4) Do you think the Boston Tea Party was a turning point in the relationship between the British and the colonists? Explain. - Answers vary, but remember that it was the most dramatic act of defiance by the colonists up until that time. 5) Re-create the diagram below and describe how colonists showed their opposition to British policies. - Increased colonial opposition: use of propaganda, revival of committees of correspondence, calls for new boycotts, and refusal of British shipments of tea. 6) Examine the material about the Boston Tea Party on page 138. What artifacts are shown? - A chest and glass container of tea When did the “tea party” take place? - December 16, 1773

  14. Homework • Study

  15. Prayer to My Guardian Angel Angel of God, my guardian dear, To whom God’s love commits me here, Ever this day be at my side, To light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.

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