colonial resistance grows part one. tightening british controls further townshend acts – 1767,...
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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