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6-2: Colonial Resistance Grows

The Townshend Acts Are Passed

Crispus Attucks –

• escaped slave whowas killed in the Boston Massacre

Townshend Acts – • indirect taxes on paper, lead, glass,

paint, and tea

The Townshend Acts Are Passed

indirect taxes – • tax collected on goods

before they entered the colonies

direct taxes –• tax collected on goods within the colonies

The Townshend Acts Are Passed

writs of assistance–

• search warrant that allowed government officials to search homes and warehouses for smuggled goods

The Townshend Acts Are Passed

• The British government was determined to tax the colonists and stop smuggling.

• Charles Townshend tried to use indirect taxes in an attempt to anger the colonists less.

Summary –

The Reasons for Protest

John Dickinson –• author of Letters from a Farmer in

Pennsylvania, essays that argued that Parliament had no right to tax the colonies

John Locke – • Enlightenment philosopher

whose ideas provided the foundation for the colonist’s arguments against taxation

The Reasons for Protest

Summary –

• Colonists continue to argue against taxation by Parliament, seeing little difference between direct and indirect taxation.

Tools of ProtestSamuel Adams –• Bostonian most effective at

organizing opposition to British rule

Summary –• As protests became

increasingly violent — or threatened to become more violent — the British government sent more troops to America to maintain order ... particularly in Boston.

The Boston Massacre

The Bloody Massacre

Paul Revere

The Boston Massacre

Boston Massacre –

• clash between British troops and colonists in which 5 colonists were killed

John Adams – • lawyer who

defended the soldiers tried for the “Massacre”

The Boston Massacre

Summary –

• The presence of British troops among a hostile population in Boston led to bloody confrontation. While the soldiers were freed for acting in self-defense, the Boston Massacre became a symbol of British tyranny.

The Tea Act

Committees of Correspondence –• organized by Sam Adams• purpose was to communicate with

similar groups elsewhere and to coordinate efforts to oppose British policies

• became a network of colonial communication that Britain could not control

The Tea Act

India

BritainAmerica

Tea grown in India is shipped to Britain before being sent on to America

Before the Townshend Acts Cost of tea - £60 a chest

The Tea ActTea Act – • repealed

all of the Townshend Acts except the tax on tea India

BritainAmerica

Tea grown in India is shipped to Britain, where it is taxed before being sent on to America

After the Townshend Acts Cost of tea - £70 a chest

India

BritainAmerica

Indian tea is shipped directly to America; taxes are collected before leaving India

The Tea ActTea Act –

After the Tea Act Cost of tea - £50 a chest

• repealed all of the Townshend Acts except the tax on tea

• tea could be shipped directly to America

The Tea Act

Summary –

• Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts because the boycotts were so effective that the British economy was hurting.

• Parliament kept the tax on tea to show that they would still exercise the right to tax the colonies. Still, the price of tea went down.

• The colonists continued to organize to protest British taxation.

The Tea Act

The Burning of the Peggy StewartFrancis Blackwell Mayer

The Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party –

• incident when “Indians” attacked Boston and dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor in protest of taxation

The Boston Tea Party

Summary –

• Colonists reacted to taxation by vandalizing property, which further angered the British government, making them even more determined to control the unruly colonists.

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