History Unit 2 Boston Massacre

Question 0

Liberty affair

Answer 0

1768
Merchant ship (owned by John Hancock) seized and accused of smuggling

Question 1

The Townshend Acts

Answer 1

1767, tax on imports (glass, paper, lead, paint, tea)

Many colonists began smuggling goods

Question 2

What happens as a result of the Liberty Affair

Answer 2

Riots
GB moves 4000 troops into Boston
Tensions grow between colonists and soldiers

Question 3

Boston massacre

Answer 3

March 5, 1770
Colonists taunt British soldiers, throw snowballs, rocks, clubs
Soldiers respond w musket fire into the crowd

Question 4

Casualties at Boston Massacre

Answer 4

5 dead, 3 wounded

Question 5

Trial of Boston massacre

Answer 5

John Adams defended soldiers
Captain Preston and all but 2 of his men acquitted
Convicted soldiers return to England.

Question 6

How does Parliament respond to the incident

Answer 6

Repeals Townshend acts

Tea taxes still in place

Question 7

Boston Tea Party

Answer 7

Dec. 16, 1773
Protest led by sons of Liberty (Sam Adams, Paul Revere)
Participants dress as Indians, board 3 British ships at night, dump 342 cases of tea into the harbor.

Question 8

How do British respond to this tea dumping

Answer 8

Intolerable Acts
Boston Harbor Act
Mass Gov Act--ends town meetings
Administration of Justice Act--royal officials tried in England 
Quebec Act--takes Northern Colonial land