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Published on Nov 19, 2015

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GROWING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND BRITAIN

1770-1774
Photo by Jo Naylor

The Boston Massacre
Cause: the colonists called the British soldiers names a like lobster backs and redcoats also they attacked them with rocks and ice
Effect: soldiers fired at the colonist and some died and some got a serious injury

Photo by Marion Doss

The Boston tea party
Cause: the colonists didn't like being taxed on tea and only being able to buy tea from the East Indies co.
Effect: the colonist dressed up as native Americans and they dumped British tea into the Boston harbor


The Intolerable Acts
Cause: the British parliament punished the colonists with harsher laws and taxes
Effect: the First Continental Congress meets to decide their first plan of attack.