What ship did tax collectors seize on suspicion of smuggling?
Liberty
Who protested the seizing of Liberty by attacking the customs official house?
Sons of Liberty
What happened as a result of the attack on the customs house?
Mass. Governor broke up legislature
Parliament sent in British army in hopes of what?
preventing a rebellion
British soldiers are our foreign enemies
Samuel Adams
When did the Boston Massacre occur?
March 5th, 1770
Order of Boston Massacre:
Fighting between Bostonians and troops outside customs house, snowballs/name calling, soldier gets knocked down by townsperson, soldiers fire, 3 people killed instantly and two died of wounds.
First colonist killed by the British in colonies
Crispus Attucks
Sam Adams used Crispus' death as what?
propaganda
Defended the soldiers of the Boston Massacre, stating it was self-defense
John Adams
What was the outcome of the trial for the soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre?
Innocent, 2 officers charged with accidental murder released after being branded with an "m" on the thumb
Parliament repealed which act to reduce tension?
Townshend Act
Tea Act
Gave British East India Company total control
of price of tea. Made tea cheap, 3 ships, governor demanded taxes paid and tea unloaded.
Boston Tea Party
Sons of Liberty disguised as Indigenous peoples and dumped 342 tea chests into the Boston Harbor
America prostrate at my feet!
Lord North (British Prime Minister)
Boston Harbor closed until...
Boston paid for the tea
new governor of Massachusetts
Thomas Gage
Governor decided when...
legislature could meet
Quebec Act
Created a government for
Canada and extended its territory south to Ohio
River.
King George III put the colonies under...
military rule