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6.4 New Taxes and Tensions. Goals: How did colonists respond to the Townshend Acts? Why were the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party significant events? What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts?. Townshend Acts – June 1767. Placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea.
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6.4 New Taxes and Tensions Goals: How did colonists respond to the Townshend Acts? Why were the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party significant events? What was the purpose of the Intolerable Acts?
Townshend Acts – June 1767 • Placed taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper and tea. • Paid for military costs & salaries for the governors. • Writs of Assistance – Used to enforce the Townshend Acts • Allowed tax collectors to search for smuggled goods. • Colonists hated new laws- they violated their constitutional rights.
Tax collectors seized the ship Liberty on suspicion of smuggling. • Sons of Liberty attacked custom officials’ houses in response. • Oct. 1768 • British soldiers arrived in Boston to restore order. • British Governor broke up the Massachusetts legislature.
The Boston Massacre • Shouting insults and throwing things common between colonists & soldiers. • March 5, 1770 – tensions exploded. • Soldiers fired into an angry mob, killing 5 colonists. • Event was used as propaganda – only one side of the story was told. • 2 of the 6 soldiers found guilty & branded.
A Tax on Tea • Parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts- except the tax on tea. • British East India Co. asked to sell tea directly to the colonies- to keep prices low and still profit. • Tea Act 1773 • Colonists worried this Co. would have a monopoly – they were against it. • Sons of Liberty demanded the tea ships leave the harbor.
Boston Tea Party • Colonists dressed as American Indians and threw all the ships’ tea chests into the Boston Harbor.
The Intolerable Acts • Causes— • Continued protests by the colonists • Boston Tea Party • Purpose— • To force the colonists to submit to British authority. • Prevent any further protests.
Results— • Closed Boston Harbor • Massachusetts charter was cancelled • Royal officials allowed to be tried in Britain • Quartering Act – forced colonists to quarter, or house and supply, British soldiers. • General Thomas Gage became governor of Massachusetts.