Boston News Letter
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STORIES
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Editorial Samuel
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First Hand
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Continental
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Battle of Bunker
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Continental
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The relationship going on between the red coats and the
Boston colonies they became more and more tense. On March 5th
1770 the tension between them hit a max and a fight started between townspeople and soldiers. The towns people didn’t have
weapons’ and as they moved through the streets they picked up
anything that they could defend them self with. They picked up
things like sticks, shovels, and clubs. The soldiers did start to shot
their guns and killed five colonists. The colonist called this the
Boston Massacre.
The colonists were upset that the red coats came and did
this. One colonist named Samuel Adams put up posters telling
about the Boston Massacre. He described it as a slaughter of innocent Americans by bloodthirsty redcoats. Paul Revere showed an
engraving of a British officer giving the order to fire. This engraving made the colonist even angrier towards the redcoats.
The colonists were still very mad and started to boycott on
all of the British goods sent to them. After they boycotted on it
Parliament took of the harsh taxes, except on tea. The colonist
thought they had won another victory. The entire colonist decided
to end their boycott and started to trade with the British merchants
again.
Some colonial leaders still struggle to British rule. Samuel
Adams revived the Boston committee of correspondence which is
an organization used in earlier protest. The committee passed
around writing about the colonists grievances against Britain. The
colonists are still upset because of the people they lost, but fell
like they have won.
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I Samuel Adams have witnessed the Boston Massacre between the
redcoats and are colonist. This all started to happen when the soldiers
stared to act rude towards the people in are colony. The people in are
colony still showed hatred towards the red coats. So the colonist decided to do something about it.
On March 5, 1770 the people in my colony had enough of the
rudeness and violence from them. The fight started and the people in
are colony picked up anything they could like stones, snowballs, oyster
shells, and any pieces of wood. They also picked up any weapons like,
sticks, shovels, and clubs. Then one of our colonist knocked down one
of the soldiers, and the redcoats started to shoot at us and seven of are
towns people got shot and died.
One of are colonist that was killed Crispus Attucks, he was one of
our local dockworkers, he was part African and part Native American.
We decided to name this terrible event the Boston Massacre. Some or
are colony leader and myself used propaganda, to influence our other
entire colonist to go against the British. I put up posters describing the
Boston massacre. Paul Revere also showed an engraving of a British officer giving orders to open fire on an orderly crowed. This has mad are
colonist angry and we will keep boycotting in tell we have it how it use
to be.
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In the Comic above there is the British's boats with the over taxed
tea on it, the colonist were not happy about the over priced to so they
went on board dressed as Mohawks and with a hatched chopped
open the barrels and tossed them over board. After they dumped the
tea over board they went back and celebrated in the streets.
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Are colony leaders realized that we need to do much more than just
boycott to gain liberty so we sang about “The Bold Americans.” We
need all of our colonies to come together to beat the British police. So we
decided to take action.
On September 1774, 55 colony member from Philadelphia. Everywhere but Georgia sent delegates, these men came to help our colonies to
represent American interests and change British control. We decided to
call this new organization the Continental Congress.
Our colonies elected the Major political leaders from all of
our colonies. Massachusetts sent Samuel Adams and his younger cousin
John Adams. John Adams is a very successful lawyer. New York sent
John Jay, another lawyer. From Virginia we sent Richard Henry Lee and
Patrick Henry. These men are two of the most outspoken defenders of
colonial rights, as well as George Washington.
Our colonies were barely agreeing on any of their views, they
then realized that they needed to work together. So first they drafted a
statement of grievances calling for the repeal of 13 act of Parliament
passed since 1763. We declared that these laws violated are rights. Our
laws are based on the “laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters.
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One June 16, 1775, around 1,200 militiamen under the control of
William Prescott set up forts at Bunker Hill. Bunker Hill was nearby
Breed’s Hill, across from the Boston harbor.
The British decided to drive us from our strategic location
overlooking our whole city. The next day the redcoats crossed our harbor and lined up at the bottom of Breed’s Hill. With their bayonets
drawn they charged up the hill. With their force low on ammunition,
Colonel Prescott said out loud “Don’t fire until you see the white in
their eyes”.
We the Americans fired, forcing the British to back down
and retreat. The redcoats charged two more times. Each time they did
this they received furious fire. In the end we ran out of gunpowder and
we had to withdraw. There for the British won this battle, but suffered
the losses of more than 1,000 dead and wounded.
The British learned that is wouldn’t be that quick and easy to defend us on the battlefields. Some of the British thought that it would be
a better idea to go over to us. There were some called the Patriots that
were determined to fight the British to the end. Until our independence
was won.
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John Hancock from Massachusetts, was 38 years old, was a wealthy mer-
chant. He funded a lot of Patriot groups, including Sons of Liberty. The delegates voted Hancock to be the president of the second Continental Congress.
Thomas Jefferson, was only 32 when the Congress began, he had already became a brilliant thinker and writer. As a member of the House of Burgesses,
Jefferson had become associated with the movement toward independence.
The most important, the Congress created the Continental Army to fight
against Britain in a more organized way then the colonial military every did.
John Adams’s suggested that they unanimously chose George Washington to
be the army’s commander.
After Washington left to lead the colonial forces in Boston, the delegates
gave Britain one last chance to avoid all wars. In July the Congress sent a petition to request George III. It asked the king to protect the colonist rights, were
Parliament wanted to destroy. George III refused to receive the Olive Branch
Petition. Instead he prepared for war, hiring more that 30,000 German troops
to send to America and fight beside British troops.
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