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A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
How would you most likely respond to taunting?
A. Ignore it
B. Cry
C. Respond verbally
D. Respond violently
A B C D
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Chapter 5 The Spirit of Independence (1763-1776)
Section 2 Building Colonial Unity
How did the colonists react to British policies?
Trouble in Boston• By 1768, protests by the
colonists were making British colonial officials nervous
• Colonies were on the brink of rebellion
• Parliament sent troops to Boston
• Colonists felt the British pushed them too far
• First the British had passed laws that violated colonial rights
• Now they sent an army to occupyoccupy (control) colonial cities
Making Matters Worse
• The soldiers in Boston acted rudely
• Sometimes even violently toward colonists
• The Redcoats earned little pay• Some stole goods from local
shops• Some fought with boys who
taunted them• The soldiers often competed
for jobs that Bostonians wanted
Problems Continue• March 5, 1770- A fight
between Bostonians and the soldiers
• A man shouts “We did not send for you. We will not have you here. We will get rid of you, we’ll drive you away!”
• The angry townspeople move toward the customhouse, where taxes were collected
• Picked up stones, sticks, clubs, and snowballs
• The sentry panicked and called for help
The Crowd Grows• The crowd starts
throwing snowballs and other objects
• Yelling at the crowd “Fire you bloodybacks, you lobsters”
• “You dare not fire.”• A soldier gets
knocked down• The Soldiers got
nervous
The Boston Massacre• The soldiers fired• Killed 5 colonists• One Bostonian cried: “Are
the inhabitants to be knocked down in the streets?”
• “Are they to be murdered?”• Among the dead was
Crispus AttucksCrispus Attucks, a dockworker who was part African, part Native American
• The tragic encounterencounter (unexpected meeting) was called the Boston Massacre
The Word Spreads• The killings were used as
propagandapropaganda by colonial leaders• Information made to influence
public opinion• Paul Revere made an engraving
of the event• Showed the British firing on an
orderly crowd• Boycotts spread after this and
Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts
• Only the tax on tea remained• Trade with Britain continued• Some colonial leaders called for
resistance to British rule• Committees of Committees of
CorrespondenceCorrespondence were set up
A Crisis Over Tea• 1773- The British East India
Company faced ruin• To save the company,
Parliament passed the Tea Tea ActAct
• Gave the Company a monopoly on tea trade
• Made tea cheaper than smuggled tea, but helped the British
• Colonists vowed to stop the Company’s ships from unloading
• People stopped drinking tea (Many started drinking coffee)
More Tea Crisis• Ships were sent
away
• Cargoes of tea was unloaded in damp cellars making it rot
• Three tea ships arrived in Boston in late 1773
• The Royal governor refused to let them leave and ordered them to be unloaded
Unloading The Tea• The Sons of Liberty
“helped” unload the tea• December 16th- Men
disguised as Mohawks boarded the ships at midnight
• Threw 342 chests of tea overboard
• Became known as the Boston Tea Party
• Colonists gathered to celebrate
• No one wanted to break with Britain
• Most saw themselves as British citizens
King George IIIKing George III• Heard the news of the
Boston Tea Party• He realized he was
losing control of the colonies
• King George III said “We must master them or totally leave them alone”
• British Government passed the Coercive Acts in 1774
• Intended to punish the colonists
Coercive Acts• Closed Boston
Harbor until the tea was paid for
• Town meetings were banned in New England
• Bostonians had to shelter (Quarter) soldiers
• Boston was isolated, but other colonies sent food and clothing to support Boston
• Parliament then passed the Quebec Act
Quebec Act• Set up a government
for Quebec• Gave Quebec the area
west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River
• This ignored colonial claims of this area
• The colonists expressed their feelings in their name for the new laws
• The Intolerable Acts
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
A B
C
D
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What did the colonists call the new laws passed by the British government?
A. The Intolerable Acts
B. The Revolutionary Acts
C. The Boston Massacre
D. The Coercive Acts
How did the colonists react to British policies?
-Colonists objected to the occupation of Boston and used the Boston Massacre as anti-British Propaganda.
-The Tea Act spurred protest throughout the colonies, but especially in Massachusetts, where colonists staged the Boston Tea Party.
-The Coercive Acts led other colonies to support Massachusetts and oppose British policies.
Chapter 5 Section 2 Quiz
Twenty colonists were killed during the Boston Massacre.
Tru
e
Fal
se
50%50%A. True
B. False
Boycotts following the Boston Massacre helped repeal the Townshend Acts.
Tru
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Fal
se
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B. False
The committee of correspondence was a system of letter writing between the colonial
governors and the king.
Tru
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Fal
se
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B. False
At the time of the Boston Tea Party, most colonists still considered themselves as
British citizens.
Tru
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Fal
se
50%50%A. True
B. False
Parliament successfully isolated Boston from the rest of the colonies by passing the
Coercive Acts.
Tru
e
Fal
se
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B. False
When Britain learned that the colonies were on the brink of rebellion in 1768, Parliament
responded by
clo
sing
Boston H
arbor
.
sen
ding a
lette
r to th
e...
sen
ding tr
oops
to B
o...
doin
g noth
ing.
25% 25%25%25%A. closing Boston Harbor.
B. sending a letter to the colonies.
C. sending troops to Boston.
D. doing nothing.
Anti-British feelings among the colonists grew more intense because of propaganda
like Paul Revere's engraving of the
Bost
on M
assa
cre.
Into
lera
ble A
cts.
Lib
erty
Affa
ir.
Bost
on Tea
Par
ty.
25% 25%25%25%A. Boston Massacre.
B. Intolerable Acts.
C. Liberty Affair.
D. Boston Tea Party.
Which act gave the East India Company an advantage over colonial merchants?
Sugar
Act
Dec
lara
tory
Act
Tea
Act
Sta
mp
Act
25% 25%25%25%A. Sugar Act
B. Declaratory Act
C. Tea Act
D. Stamp Act
Some colonists celebrated the dramatic act of defiance known as the
Into
lera
ble A
cts.
Coer
cive
Act
s.
Bost
on M
assa
cre.
Bost
on Tea
Par
ty.
25% 25%25%25%A. Intolerable Acts.
B. Coercive Acts.
C. Boston Massacre.
D. Boston Tea Party.
The colonial name for laws that banned town meetings in New England was
the
Navig
atio
n Act
s.
the
Into
lera
ble
Acts.
the
Coerci
ve A
cts.
the
Boston T
ea P
arty
.
25% 25%25%25%A. the Navigation Acts.
B. the Intolerable Acts.
C. the Coercive Acts.
D. the Boston Tea Party.
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