Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Ch. 5, Section 2 Notes

1768- British sent troops to Boston, in fear of rebellion. 
March 5, 1770- Boston Massacre, Fight between towns people and soldiers. 
Committee of Correspondence- Set up propaganda for anti-British. 
1773- Tea Act, Save East India Trading Company, but put small colonial merchants out of business. 
December 16, 1773- Boston Tea Party- Sons of Liberty, dresses like Mohawk Indians, threw 342 chests of tea overboard. 
Coercive Acts- Laws intended to punish the colonists, Closed Boston Harbour. 
1774- Quebec Act, Set up a permanent government for Quebec and granted religious freedom for French Catholics.  
Colonist called the laws the Intolerable Acts. 

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