Chapter 6

Raised revenue in the colonies. Tax on lead, paper, glass, and tea.

Crispus Attucks started trading insults in front of the Custom House with a teen boy. Then Crispus hit the boy in the head with his gun. A fight broke out and they started shooting. The shooting was called the Boston Massacre.

Repeal the townshend acts

In Boston of sons of liberty organized what came to be know as the Boston tea party. The British say you can only buy tea from them. You can't by tea from anyone else.

Committees of correspondence are groups what will send letters between the colonies.

The parliment passed a series of laws to punish the Massachusetts colony and to serve as a warning to other colonies. British called these laws the coercive acts but they were so harsh that the colonist called them the intoloreable acts. Closes the Boston harbor to any shipping.

Closed down all business in Massachusetts. Can't bring or get goods to and from Boston.

We're the first battles of the revolutionary war. They were looking for weapons. When they didn't find them they marched back. While they were marching back the colonist were shooting at them.

Colonist will lose this battle. Militia stood up to the British.

Begins netting in Philadelphia