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The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) [ 1 ] was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots ...
The Talbot Resolves was a proclamation in support of the citizens of Boston. It was read by leading citizens of Talbot County at Talbot Court House on May 24, 1774. [16] [Note 1] The statement was read in response to the British plan to close the Port of Boston on June 1 as punishment for the Boston Tea Party protest. [16]
Crispus Attucks (c.1723 – March 5, 1770) was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent who is traditionally regarded as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, and as a result the first American killed in the American Revolution. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] While he is widely remembered as the first American ...
Christopher Seider (or Snider) (1758 – February 22, 1770) was a boy who is considered to be the first American killed in the American Revolution. [1][2][3] He was 11 years old when he was shot and killed by customs officer Ebenezer Richardson [4] in Boston on February 22, 1770. [5][6] His funeral became a major political event, with his death ...
A group of men led by Abraham Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. [2] The event sharply increased tensions between American colonists and Crown officials, particularly given that it had followed the Boston Massacre in 1770.
7 Geo. 3. c. 46, s. 10 There was an angry response from colonists, who deemed the taxes a threat to their rights as British subjects. The use of writs of assistance was significantly controversial since the right to be secure in one's private property was an established right in Britain. The Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 United Kingdom legislation Commissioners of Customs Act 1767 Act of ...
Paul Revere's engraving of British troops landing in Boston in response to events set off by the Circular Letter.. The Massachusetts Circular Letter was a statement written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr., and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives (as constituted in the government of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, not the current constitution) in February 1768 in response ...
e. The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773, by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. [2] The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the East India Company to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend ...