Violence Erupts in Boston

Violence erupts in Boston there are many events that caused violence in Boston first of all the Parliament didn't understand the colonists and the officers abused of the power. 
In June 1768, there was a boat called Liberty and it was ceased for smuggling it belonged to John Hancock he was a wealthy merchant and a prominent politician. The capturing of the boat created the set of riots in Boston and the Sons of liberty revived the protest tactics from before. To suppress the riot, England send 4,000 troops, and their were 16,000 colonists in Boston. Over 1 soldier per colonist this caused a tense environment. The presence of the troops made the colonists angry since the soldiers started working and taking all the unskilled jobs. 

Then, one night a group of drunken colonists went to the custom house and started throwing snowballs and rocks to the guards that were there. The nervous soldiers opened fire and killed five colonists, Crispus Attucks he was a sailor and a runaway slave,  Samuel Gray, Patrick Car, James Caldwell, and Samuel Maverick. Under the leadership of Samuel Adams the Boston patriots call it the Boston Massacre. After this attack the colonies set up Committees of correspondence and this caused the colonial unity. And they unit and they started making boycotts to the British. The colonists didn't like the British placing taxes because they were losing more money. And since they didn't had any representation in America colonies didn't agree with them. But they thought the colonists were going to let them manipulate them and wouldn't quarrel against their new rules. 

And  the Tea Act was passed on May 10, 1773 that will take them to the final flare that lead to the revolutionary move in Boston.  They placed taxes on the British tea so colonists stop buying the tea because they refuse to pay a cent of taxes to the British. So instead they buy smuggled tea that was overpriced they were so whimsical on paying taxes to the British. On December 16, 1773 Boston patriots took matter into their own hands they dressed up as Mohawk Indians. The colonists enter to the boat and started throwing all the tea into the ocean until their was no box of tea remaining. And this was called "The Biggest Cup Of Tea In The World" this was an act of rebellion against the taxes and it had a bad repercussion in the colonists. The colonists react in a violent way to each act the parliament took and they didn't agree with they demonstrate the Parliament wouldn't be able to control them. 

Resources:

"The Tea Act." The Tea Act. N.p., n.d. Web. http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/teaact.htm 05 Dec. 2013. 

"The American Revolution." : Violence Erupts in Boston. N.p., n.d. Web. http://americanrevunit.blogspot.com/2010/05/violence-erupts-in-boston.html 06 Dec. 2013.

New Taxes for Colonists

The king and the parliament, decided that the colonists have to pay taxes. After the seven year war, the empire lost a big amount of money in the army. And they also spend money in keeping british soldiers in north america. In 1764 they passed a law known as the Sugar Act. This tax was included in the goods coming to the colonies from another place. So every time colonists wanted to by something, they have to pay the cost of the object plus the tax. This money as collected by the British Government. It was supposed to be used to pay for the British Soldiers.
The sugar act of 1764 was basically applied on all imported products. It was almost necessary for the colonists to pay this taxes because not all products were able to be produced in North America. Some of this products were tea, paint, lead, glass, paper, molasses, and sugar. So then all of these products were becoming more expensive for all of the colonists, they started becoming upset. There were some colonists who weren't going to pay not even one cent to the parliament, so they found out other solutions… Smugglers became more wealthy since people preferred to give their money to them than to the Parliament. So then products were smuggled and that started another conflict with Britain.
The colonists were not in favour of the taxation since they hadn't vote for those taxes. What we mean by this is that colonists didn't had representatives in the parliament. So they couldn't vote and didn't have someone to speak or represent them. The king and the parliament ignore their position, and that was how the relationship between colonists and britains started getting tense. Most of the colonists wanted representation, but not all of them wanted to get in trouble with Britain. Some of the colonists were even in favour with Britain, and the were called Loyalists or Tories. If somehow Britain could have give the opportunity to colonists to vote, things could have turned totally different. But since they never agreed to each other, events became very unexpected.

Resources

"Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775 - 1750–1775 - Milestones - Office of the Historian." Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775 - 1750–1775 - Milestones - Office of the Historian. N.p., n.d. Web.  http://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/parliamentary-taxation, 05 Dec. 2013.

"New Taxes for the Colonists." New Taxes for the Colonists. N.p., n.d. 2013.http://www.watertown.k12.ma.us/cunniff/americanhistorycentral/07differencesdivide/New_Taxes_for.html , Web. 06 Dec. 

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