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Starting The Revolutionary Wat

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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STARTING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

THE MAYHEM IN BOSTON OF 1770-1774

THE BOSTON MASACRE

  • The colonists grouped together and taunted the British soilders
  • A British soldier, thinking someone yelled "fire", fired into the crowd
  • All the solders started to fire
  • Five colonists were killed
Photo by Marion Doss

The Boston Tea Party 1773
British government forced colonists to buy taxed tea. To protest, a group of men (Sons of liberty) dressed up as Indians tossed tea of a boat

Photo by Marxchivist

THE INTOLERABLE ACTS

The British forced the colonists to pay for the lost tea