Amanda, KC, & Zack notes on pages 136-139

• 1768
• Parliament sent troops to Boston to keep the colonists from rebellion 
• March 5th, 1770
• Boston Massacre
• Tension peaked between soldiers and colonists
• Colonists broke out in a RAMPAGE!
• Soldiers fought back and 5 colonists ended up dead
• Propaganda
• Information designed to influence opinion
• Boston massacre lead to more boycotting
• Parliament repealed all of the Townshend Acts except the ones on tea
• 1772
• Sam Adams revived The Boston Committee of Correspondence 
• An organization used in earlier protests
• Tea Acts of 1773
• Gave the East India Company the right to ship tea to the colonies without paying taxes
• Made their tea the cheapest tea in colonies
• In Boston and Philadelphia colonists vowed to stop tea ships from unloading
• December 16, 1773 ~ Boston Tea Party
• Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk natives, threw 342 chests of tea into the Boston Harbor
• 1774
• Coercive Acts were passed to punish Bostonians for their resistance
• The Coercive Acts closed the Boston Harbor until they paid for all the tea they 'brewed' in the harbor
• Intolerable Acts allowed British soldiers to be housed in colonial houses against the will of the colonists
• Quebec Acts gave French Catholics religious freedom