American Journey Chapter 15



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Section 2: Building Colonial Unity

(pg. 126-129) Hour

Trouble in Boston

Colonists felt that the British had gone too far. First they passed ______ that violated colonial rights. Second they sent an army to ________, or control, the colonial cities.

Soldiers were sometimes rude and ________.

*some ______ goods

*some ________ with boys that taunted them

*some took _______ away from Bostonians who wanted them

The Boston Massacre – March 7, 1770

Colonists yelled “You dare not _____”

_____ colonists were killed.

Among the dead was __________ ______________, a dockworker who was part African, part Native American.

The Word Spreads

Propaganda is information made to ______________ public opinion.

Samuel Adams put up ______________ that described the “Boston Massacre.” An engraving by ___________ _________________ showed British troops firing on an orderly crowd.

The Boston Massacre led many colonists to call for stronger _______ on British goods.

Parliament repealed all the _________________ ____________ taxes except for the one on ___________.

Samuel Adams continued to call for resistance to British rule. In 1772 he revived the Boston ____________________ of ___________________ which was an organization used in earlier protests. Committees throughout the colonies aired their

________________________ against Great Britain.

Reading Check: How did the colonists use the Boston Massacre to their advantage?

Colonists used anger over the Boston Massacre to raise support for the ____________of British good, which led Parliament to repeal the ______________ Acts.

A Crisis over Tea

In 1773 the British East India Company faced ____________. To save the company, Parliament passed the _______ _______. This act gave all the control for the trade of tea in America to the British East India Company. The act let the company sell directly to the shopkeepers and bypass the colonial merchants who normally distributed the tea.

Colonists vowed to stop the East India Company’s ships from _______________.

The Boston Tea Party

The royal governor refused to let three ships in Boston Harbor leave. The _______

Of _________ acted quickly. They boarded the ships at midnight on December 16, and threw _________chests of tea overboard. This event became known as the ____________ ________ _______________.

Colonists gathered to celebrate but they didn’t speak of challenging British rule because most colonists saw themselves as ____________ ______________.

The Intolerable Acts

King George III realized that Britain was losing _________ of the colonies. The British government passed the ____________ ________________ in 1774. These laws were intended to punish Massachusetts for their resistance to British law. The Coercive Acts:

1) closed _____________ Harbor until Massachusetts paid for the ruined tea – closing the harbor prevented food and other supplies from arriving

2) banned town ___________ in New England

3) forced Bostonians to shelter ___________ in their homes

The colonists held that the Coercive Acts violated their rights as _____________ citizens.

Parliament than passed the ______________ Act which set up a government for Quebec and gave them land west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River – ignoring the fact that there were already colonial claims to this area.

The colonists expressed their feeling in their name for the new laws –

______________ _____________.

Reading Check: How did the British react to the Boston Tea Party?

The British reacted by passing the ______________ Acts to punish Massachusetts. The Acts closed _______________ Harbor, banned town _______________, and forced the colonists to ________________British troops.

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