5 2 Uniting the Colonists Trouble in Massachusetts

5. 2 Uniting the Colonists

Trouble in Massachusetts • Britain occupied Boston (redcoats) • Tension in Streets – Boston Massacre (5 colonists shot by redcoats in a fight) • Spreading the News: • Boston Massacre used as propaganda boycott against GB grew GB removed Townshend Act, except on Tea colonist boycott tea • Committees of Correspondence (anti-GB) developed throughout the colonies

Cries in Boston • British East India Co (BEIC) relied on colonies for $$ (especially tea $$) • Parliament passes Tea Act to help BEIC (gave all tea control to BEIC and removed almost all of the tea tax) • Colonists still made b/c there is still SOME tax on tea • Tea Party: • 1773 Boston Sons of Liberty dressed as Native Americans and threw tea overboard BEIC ships *** Very oddly…most colonists still saw themselves as loyal British citizens***

Intolerable Acts • 1774 Coercive Acts: laws to punish colonists for resisting British authority • All colonies must allow soldiers to live in colonial homes • Massachusetts: • Town meetings banned, closed Boston Harbor until ruined tea paid for • COERCIVE ACT BRINGS COLONIES TOGETHER – colonies send food/supplies to Mass. Colonists • Quebec Act – gave land/gov’t to Canada in Ohio River Valley (part of colony that Washington fought for and won) • Colonists called these acts the Intolerable Acts

Assignment • Progress Check pg 123 and pg 125 • Lesson Review pg 123 # 2 -4