TAXES NO MORE

BOSTON MASSACRE 1770

• ON MARCH 5 1770 5 COLONISTS WERE KILLED BY BRITISH TROOPS.
• It started when colonists threw ice chunks, snow balls, and called them names.
• The troops at the time were guarding the custom house on king street.
• Some solders thought they heard fire when others thought they heard do not fire.

THE BOSTON TEA PARTY 1773

• On the evening of December 16 90,000 pounds was dumped in the harbor.
• Over 50 individual dressed up as Indians and snuck on to a ship that was full of tea.
• Those 50 individual where called the sons of liberty
• The colonist refused to buy tea from the East Indian tea company

THE INTOLERABLE ACTS

• In September 1774 12 men had an important meeting
• The colonist were all mad at Britain for their new laws.
• The new laws were a punishment to the colonists for dumping the tea.
• Britain blocked the Boston harbor from the colonists
• The colonists responded in outrage

BY MOLLY 🙈🙉🙊 AND LILY✨🌟💫