2. Townshend Acts
• Tax on glass, paper, lead and tea
• Colonists boycott again
• British used the writs of assistance again and
British troops were called in to restore order

3. Boston Massacre
• March 5, 1770
• Group of colonists were taunting soldiers by
throwing snowballs and stones
• One soldier was hit and fell
• A shot was fired and the British fired into the
mob
• 5 colonists were killed

7. • Britain repealed all taxes except on tea

8. Committees of Correspondence
• Samuel Adams urged Boston to create a group
to promote resistance to Britain

9. Tea Act of 1773
• Tax on tea
• Tea arrives and colonists ask the governor to
return it and he refused
• On December 16, 1773 men boarded the ship
and dumped the tea into the harbor
• Called the Boston Tea Party

12. Intolerable Acts
• Acts designed to punish Massachusetts
• Boston Port Act – closed down the Boston
Harbor
• Quartering Act – could demand whatever
supplies they needed for soldiers
• Changed their charter
• Lost their right to elect officials, name judges
or have town meetings

13. House of Lords where
Intolerable Acts were
passed

15. Quebec Act
• Dealt with area in Canada
• Made Roman Catholicism the religion in
Quebec