Friday, December 6, 2013
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.
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