Colonial Resistance Grows

Part One

Tightening British Controls Further

• Townshend Acts – 1767, placed taxes

on numerous imports, like glass,

paper, paint, lead, and tea.

-Law also allowed British officers to

issue writs of assistance – search

warrants to enter homes and

businesses to search for smuggled or

illegal goods.

Colonists Protest

• In response to Townshend Acts, merchants in Boston organize another boycott…

–Colonial leaders advise against violence, but England fears disorder, sending more troops

Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)

• Colonists gathered around soldiers in front of

the State House, trading insults shouting,

throwing snowballs. crowd grew larger

soldiers thought attack coming fired into the

crowd

• 5 people were killed

• British soldiers seen as evil; dead colonists seen as heroes.

• Soldiers arrested for murder, but found not guilty due to self-defense

The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated on King Street, Boston by Paul Revere. (engraving)

Boston Massacre March 5 1770 by John Bufford. (chromolithograph)

Revere’s Engraving

Bufford’s Chromolithograph