The Townshend Acts Indirect (not directly paid to customs agents, usually just result in higher prices) taxes on goods such as lead, paint, paper, and.

The Townshend Acts

•Indirect (not directly paid to customs agents,

usually just result in higher prices) taxes on

goods such as lead, paint, paper, and tea.

English Policy Promotes

Corruption •Hired customs agents were usually crooked, greedy and strict. England offered huge commissions or bonuses for big collections of taxes.

The Sons of Liberty began to organize the colonies

together through a Circular Letter.

Paul Revere

Samuel Adams Co- founder of the Sons of

Liberty

The Boston Massacre•1770 - drunken

unemployed sailors and teens hurl foul language, snowballs, and rocks at English soldiers outside a British Custom’s House.

Manufacturing the Truth• When the legend becomes fact,

print the legend. • Perception is 99% of Reality• Repeat a lie enough, it becomes

Truth

Paul Revere, a Boston silversmith makes this drawing that exaggerates the incidentexaggerates the incident

John Adams Proved in Court:

English protect themselves by firing into

the crowdResulting in:

5 American Colonists dead.

Freedman Crispus Attucks is first to die.

Freed slave Cripus Attucks was running an errand when he came to the wrong place at

the wrong time.

Samuel Adams’ younger cousin John Adams (2nd President)

successfully defends the soldiers in court.

Adams as President in 1798

The Tea Act

•East India Co. given complete control over

tea sales in the Colonies.

Results

•Tea was actually less $

•Colonists were angry England could force them

into a monopoly (state of no competition)

The Boston Tea Party (1773)

•British tried to force colonists accept tea.

•Most American ports refused to unload tea.

•Massachusetts Governor Thomas Hutchinson ordered

the tea unloaded.

•The Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawks

dumped tea in harbor.

The Boston Tea Party

Massachusetts Gov.

Thomas Hutchinson

British Reaction to Tea Party?

The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts

• No ship could leave Boston Harbor until tea is paid for.

• Thomas Hutchinson replaced by a military general. (Thomas

Gage)

• Mass. colonial assembly dissolved.

•Imposes Quartering Act - People of Mass. ordered to house British soldiers without consent.

American Reaction•First Continental Congress

Formed - Group of elected men from all colonies to coordinate American response.

•Samuel Adams sets up secret communication network called Committees of Correspondence