Colonial Resistance GrowsCHAPTER 6, SECTION 2

Townshend Acts• Parliament’s problem…• How do we keep colonists happy?• How do we raise revenue?

• Pass the Townshend Acts of course!(Named after Charles Townshend)

This guy

Townshend Acts (cont’d)Townshend Acts•Suspend New York’s colonial government

(until they agree to house troops)

•Placed duties on imported goods• Glass, paper, paint, lead, tea, etc.• Money paid BEFORE goods entered colonies• Used to pay British governor and other officers

•Officials used writs of assistance to enforce law• Search warrants for homes and businesses

Colonial Response•Protests immediately broke out

•Angry that New York Assembly was out of office

•Did not like writs of assistance• Threats to rights and freedoms

•Sons of Liberty – led boycott• Asked shopkeepers not to sell goods from England

•Daughters of Liberty – boycott as well• Had to make items like clothing at home

Samuel Adams

Daughters of Liberty

Boston Massacre•1768 – 1,000 British soldiers arrive in Boston• Tensions rose immediately

•March 5, 1770 – argument breaks out, turns violent• British troops open fire on colonists• 4 colonists killed• Sons of Liberty call it Boston Massacre

•Incident became tool for anti-British propaganda

•British soldiers arrested for murder but set freeCrispus Attucks

Tea Act1770 – Townshend Acts repealed…• Except for one… The tax on tea.

•Boycott was effective• British commerce hurt

•Wanted to show colonists that they would be nice to them but still had power to tax

•1773 – Tea Act• Only tea allowed in colonies must be sold be British

East India Trading Company

In Response…Colonists establish Committees of Correspondence• Groups that exchanged letters on colonial affairs

Protests took place all over colonies• South Carolina• New York

Boston Tea Party•Sons of Liberty• Dress up like natives• Board 3 tea ships and dump 342 chests of tea

British response would fan the flames for rebellion…

…to be continued