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Ch. 5, Section 2: Building Colonial Unity pg. 136

Main Idea: As tensions between colonists and the British government increased, protests grew stronger. Key Terms: Propaganda Committee of Correspondence. Ch. 5, Section 2: Building Colonial Unity pg. 136. Trouble in Boston.

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Ch. 5, Section 2: Building Colonial Unity pg. 136

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  1. Main Idea: As tensions between colonists and the British government increased, protests grew stronger. Key Terms: Propaganda Committee of Correspondence Ch. 5, Section 2: Building Colonial Unity pg. 136

  2. Trouble in Boston • A. Parliament sent 2 regiments of troops (often referred to as redcoats) to Boston. They set up camp in the heart of the city.

  3. Violence in Boston • These soldiers were in some cases • rude and violent toward the colonists. • Boston resented the presence of the soldiers • Fighting broke out between the redcoats and Bostonians and continued through the next year.

  4. Trouble in Boston • The Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770 • Result of the heated tensions between the redcoats and the Bostonians. • Townspeople wielding weapons marched to customhouse. • The redcoats fired, killing 5 colonists. • Among the dead was Crispus Attucks, an African American dockworker.

  5. Boston Massacre • The Boston Massacre led colonists to call for stronger boycotts of British goods. • Colonial leaders used the killings as propaganda against the British.

  6. Crisis Over Tea • Parliament passed the Tea Act of 1773 to save the British East India Company from going under. • Gave the East India Company a favorable advantage over colonial merchants • Able to ship its extra tea to the colonies without paying most of the tea taxes.

  7. Trouble in Boston • Parliament repealed the Townsend Acts except the tax on tea. • Some colonial leaders still called for resistance to British rule. • In 1772 Samuel Adams revived the committee of correspondence in Boston to circulate colonists’ grievances against Britain. • Other colonies began committees of correspondence that brought together protesters opposed to British measures.

  8. Boston Tea Party • Tea was sold directly to the shopkeepers at a low price and bypassed colonial merchants • The tea from the East India Company was cheaper than any other tea. • The colonists again boycotted British goods to denounce the British monopoly.

  9. Boston Tea Party • In Boston Harbor in December 1773, the royal governor ordered the tea unloaded. At midnight on December 16, the Boston Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawks boarded the ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This became known as the Boston Tea Party. • The king and Parliament vowed to punish Boston and the people of Massachusetts for using the Boston Tea Party to resist British rule. They passed the Coercive Acts.

  10. A Crisis Over Tea • Acts closed Boston Harbor until the colonists paid for the ruined tea. • Closing the harbor prevented Bostonians from receiving food and other supplies. • The laws also banned town meetings and forced Bostonians to house British soldiers in their homes. • The colonists renamed these acts the Intolerable Acts.

  11. Wrap Up Questions • 1. How did the Boston Tea Party challenge British rule? • 2. Why did Britain repeal the Townsend Acts?

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