Ch7-3: Conflicts Grow (pp. 240-243)
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Boston Tea Party
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Parliament passes Tea Act 1773
 Colonists smuggle tea /avoid taxes
 Merchants would not sell East India tea
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Fully-loaded ship at anchor for months
 Sons of Liberty board unguarded ship
 Cargo is dumped into the harbor
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GB Parliament passes coercive acts (Intolerable Acts)
 No trade between GB & Boston
 No town meetings
 Colonial gov’t under GB authority
 GB soldiers live in colonists’ homes (quarter)
First Continental Congress – Philadelphia [Sep. 1774]
o Colonial delegates met: Intolerable Acts
 Wanted King to give same rights to colonists as to GB citizens
 Demanded end to Taxation without Representation
Trade with Britain stopped by Colonists
o King declares rebellion has begun
Boston 1775 - GB troops sent back to colonies
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Boston Massacre
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Cause: Colonists harass GB soldiers
 Hostile crowd attacks troops with snowballs/insults
 Terrified troops fire into crowd
 5 colonists die (hero Crispus Attucks – former slave)
John Adams defended the soldiers in court = most found innocent, light punishment
Paul Revere paints scene
 Sons of Liberty – angry about court ruling
 Painting used as propaganda (convincing others to take action)
Lines of communication
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Samuel Adams: “Committees of Correspondence” (like the AP)
 Speed up spreading of written news
 Sharing info: colonists are informed about what is happening in all colonies
 Each colony makes a Committees of Correspondence
ESSENTIAL LEARNING POINTS:
1. How did colonists in Boston respond to the Tea Act of 1773?
2. What action by the colonists resulted in the Coercive Acts?
3. What were the four statutes of the “Intolerable Acts?”?
4. Why was the First Continental Congress formed?
5. Was the First Continental Congress successful? Why/why not?
6. How did Paul Revere use the Boston Massacre to further enrage the colonists?
7. What did Samuel Adams create to speed up the spreading of written news?