Boston Massacre
Samuel Adams
By: Ariana
the colonists. This act set up a permanent government for Quebec and
granted religious freedom to the
French Catholics. Colonists strongly
objected to the provision that gave
Quebec the area west of the Appalachian and north of the Ohio river.
When I was in the Boston Massacre
it was very cold. I have received the Boston committee of correspondence the was
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The continental congress
an organization used in the early protest. The committees circled that were
In September 1744, 55 of the men
witting about the grievances against the arrived in the city of Philadelphia. From
Britain.
all the colonists except the ones for GeorI also put up posters about the Bos- gia the established a political body to
represent the American interests and to
ton Massacre as the slaughter of innocent Americans by the bloodthirsty red- challenge British control. The have called
coats. An engraving from Paul Revere’s the organization the continental conshowed a British officer giving the order gress.
to them to open fire which was an orderly crowd. Revere’s powerful image
strengthened anti-British.
Almost all of the political leaders
from the colonies attended the congress,
Massachusetts sent fiery my younger
The others and I denounce the Brit- cousins John Adams and I my cousin
was a successful lawyer . The New York
ish monopoly. The tea act and thy arsent another lawyer named John Jay .
gued which was another way to crush
Virginia came Richard Henry Lee and
the colonists. They had a large public
Patrick Henry they were two of the most
meetings in Boston and Philadelphia
unspoken defender of the colonial rights
colonists vowed to stop the East India
also as well George Washington. Patrick’s
Company’s ship from uploading the
meaning of the gathering was ’’ The disDaughters of the liberty issued a pamtinctions between Virginians, Pennsylphlet declaring that rather than part
vania,
with the freedom w will part with our
tea.
When the news of the Boston Tea
Party reached London the reaction was
quite different. We must master them or
totally them all alone and not bother
them. They prepared to not give the
king and parliament vowed to punish
Boston.
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The Quebec act passed shortly after the coercive Acts further angered
the New Yorkers, and New England's are no more….. I am not a Virginian, but an
American.
They realized they need the to work together. First they had to draft a statement of grievance calling for the repeal of the 13 acts Parliament passed since the
1763. They declared that these laws were violated by the colonists rights. The right
was also based on the rights of the laws of nature, the principles of the English constitution, and the several charters of the colonies. The delegates also voted for the
boycott all British good and trades. The British products could be brought into the
consumed in the colonies and the no colonial goods could be shipped to the Britain.
One of the congress major decisions was to endorse the Suffolk Resolves. Theses resolutions had been prepared by Bostonians and whose lived in he Suffolk
County, Massachusetts. They called o the people of Suffolk county to arm themselves against the British. Also the people responded by forming militias which is a
group of soldiers. May of them wondered if the war was coming. The answer came
as the following spring.
The Second Continental Congress
On May 10 1775 assembled for the first time. Despite the fighting at Lexington
and Concord, many members of congress were not yet prepared to break away
from great Britain.
The delegates to the second Continental Congress included some of the greatest
political leaders in the America. Among those attending john , Patrick Henry,
Richard Henry lee, George Washington and I were all the delegates to the First
Continental congress which was held in the 1774. Benjamin Franklin was one of the
most accomplished and represented man in the colonies. It had been an influential
member of Pennsylvania. During the Stamp Act 1765, he represented the colonies n
London and helped secure the repeal of the act.
A 38 year old wealthy merchant, John Hancock of Massachusetts. He found a
lot of patriot groups also including the sons of liberty.
Thomas Jefferson which is only 32 when the congress began e had already acquired a reputation a brilliant thinker and writer. As a member of the Virginia
house of burgesses Jefferson had become and associate with the movement toward
independence.
The First Hand Account
What I witness was that the colonial leaders used new of the killing as propaganda information designed to influence the opinion that was against the British. I
went to go put up posters that was describing the Boston Massacre as he slaughter
of the innocent Americas by the bloodthirsty redcoats. By Paul Revere he showed
the British officer that he was giving the order to open the fire on orderly crowd.
repealed all the all the Townshend Acts taxes except the one on the tea. Some colonists believe that they have won one more victory. The have ended there boycotts
but on the taxed tea and started to go ad trade with British merchants again.
Some of the colonial leaders however continued to call for the resistance to
the British that ruled. When it was the 1772 I revived the Boston committee of correspondence an organization used in earlier protest. The committee circulated
writing about the colonists grievances against the Britain Another committee of
the correspondence sprang up through out the colonies bringing together protesters
opposed to British measures
The Battle
The Britain sends the troops. The British also prepared for the conflict. King
George announced to parliament that the New England colonies were in a state of
rebellion and said that blows must decide who control America. By April 1775, the
British general Sir Thomas Gage had several of thousand soldiers under his command in and around Boston, with many more on the way.
Gage had in and instruction to take away the weapons of the Massachusetts
militia and arrest the leaders. Gage learned that the militia was storing arm and
ammunition at the Concord a town about 20 miles northwest of Boston. He ordered
700 troops in the Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Smith to march To concord. Where
you will seize and destroy all the artillery and ammunition you can find.
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such
laws and enforce them."