Quarterly 1 Project by Andrew DeLorenzo

Lord Frederick North - British Prime Minister

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:07:20 UTC

Prime Minister who tried to help the British East India Company.

Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots the Boston Tea Party and the Making
of America. Yale UP, 2010.

The British East India Company

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:08:06 UTC

The East India Company had a monopoly on tea imports to the colonies. The Tea Act gave the East India Company a tax break on their tea, which made their tea cheaper than other places. The idea by the British Parliament was that this act would encourage colonists to buy tea from the East Indian Company because it was cheaper.

Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots the Boston Tea Party and the Making
of America. Yale UP, 2010.

The Tea Act

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:09:46 UTC

The Tea Act was passed on May 10, 1773 by the British Parliament. The act did two things, it kept the existing tax of three pence per pound on tea imported into the American colonies and allowed the British East India Company sell directly to the American colonists.

Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots the Boston Tea Party and the Making
of America. Yale UP, 2010.

Samuel Adams

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:13:09 UTC

American colonist that lived in Boston, led groups of men in the Boston Tea Party.

Carp, Benjamin L. Defiance of the Patriots the Boston Tea Party and the Making
of America. Yale UP, 2010.

The Boston Tea Party

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:14:16 UTC

On December 16, 1773, Samuel Adams led three groups of fifty men dressed like Mohawk Indians and went aboard English ships and threw boxes of tea in the harbor. They boarded three ships, the Dartmouth, the Beaver, and the Eleanor, and dumped 342 chests of East India Company tea into the harbor. This protest became known as the Boston Tea Party.

Ellis, Joesph J. The Cause the American Revolution and Its Discontents,
1773-1783. Liveright Publishing Corp., 2021.

Intolerable Acts

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:21:56 UTC

One of the things the British government did as a result of the Boston Tea Party was to pass a group of laws called the Coercive Acts but the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts in 1774.

Ferling, John. Whirlwind the American Revolution and the War That Won It.
Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

The Declaration of Independence

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 03:24:19 UTC

The Boston Massacre help lead the American colonists declaring independence from Great Britain because it rallied the colonists around the hatred for Britain and British soldiers and it led to other armed rebellions throughout the colonies.

The Tea Act caused the colonists of Boston to revolt against the British government by throwing tea in the harbor. The Boston Tea party contributed to the American colonists declaring independence from Great Britain because it united the colonists and they were able to continue to resist the British.

The Intolerable Acts helped lead the American colonists to declare independence from Great Britain because they united the colonists against the British. The colonists were scared that something like this could happen to them and they united behind the people of Boston. As a result of these Acts, the colonists formed the First Continental Congress convened on September 5, 1774 asking King George II to end the Intolerable Acts.

"The Intolerable Acts on the Path to Rebellion." Battlefields.org, American

Battlefield Trust, www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/intolerable-acts.

Eyewitness Account - The Boston Tea Party

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-23 13:39:21 UTC

John Rowe was the owner of the ship, Eleanor, involved in the Boston Tea Party. In his diary on December 16, 1773, he described what he saw. "A Number of People appearing in Indian Dresses went on board the three Ships Hall

Bruce & Coffin they Opend the Hatches hoisted

Out the Tea & flung it Overboard"

Rowe, John. "John Rowe Diary 10, 16 December 1773." Masshist.org, 16 Dec. 1773,

www.masshist.org/database/viewer.php?item_id=525&img_step=1&mode=dual#page1.

Accessed 23 Oct. 2023.

The Boston Massacre

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:26:18 UTC

In the 1770s there were more than 4,000 British troops living in Boston and the people that lived in the city did not like it. There was always fighting between the colonists and the British troops and on the night of March 5, 1770, it led to the death of 5 colonists. This became known as the Boston Massacre.

Volo, Dorothy Denneen, and James M. Volo. Daily Life during the American
Revolution. Greenwood Press, 2003.

Custom House

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:30:21 UTC

Colonists were fighting with the British that day and at night the colonists turned into a mob and threatened the soldiers at Custom House. They began throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and yelling insults at the soldiers. No one knows for sure what happened next, but the soldiers started firing at the mob.

Volo, Dorothy Denneen, and James M. Volo. Daily Life during the American

Revolution. Greenwood Press, 2003.

Eyewitness Account - The Boston Massacre

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:37:56 UTC

The head of the British soldiers was Captain Thomas Preston and he said “This might be the case, as many of the mob called out ‘fire, fire,’ but I assured the men that I gave no such order, that my words were, ‘Don’t fire, stop your firing:’ In short it was scarce possible for the soldiers to know who said fire, or don’t fire, or stop your firing.” The youngest to die was Samuel Maverick who was 17 and the oldest was Crispus Attucks.

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice, editor. "Historyofmassachusetts.org." Boston Massacre:
Primary Sources, 21 Jan. 2023, historyofmassachusetts.org/
boston-massacre-primary-sources/. Accessed 23 Oct. 2023.

Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:41:35 UTC

The colonists were so angry they demanded the British soldiers to leave Boston. Eleven days later Royal Governor Thomas Hutchinson ordered the troops to leave the city.

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice, editor. "Historyofmassachusetts.org." Boston Massacre:
Primary Sources, 21 Jan. 2023, historyofmassachusetts.org/
boston-massacre-primary-sources/. Accessed 23 Oct. 2023.

The Boston Port Act

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:49:55 UTC

The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston until the payment for all the lost and damaged tea was made by the colonists.

Ferling, John. Whirlwind the American Revolution and the War That Won It.
Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

The Massachusetts Government Act

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:50:59 UTC

The Massachusetts Government Act said that the ruler of the colonies would be appointed by the king and not elected by the people and it limited town meetings that the colonists could have.

Ferling, John. Whirlwind the American Revolution and the War That Won It.
Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

The Quartering Act

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:52:26 UTC

The Quartering Act said that British soldiers could live anywhere they wanted even in people’s homes.

Ferling, John. Whirlwind the American Revolution and the War That Won It.
Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

The Administration of Justice Act

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 02:53:35 UTC

The Administration of Justice Act said that if a British official committed a crime they could move the trial outside of the colonies and back to Britain.

Ferling, John. Whirlwind the American Revolution and the War That Won It.
Bloomsbury Press, 2015.

Eyewitness Account- The Intolerable Acts

adelorenzo26 — 2023-10-24 03:02:14 UTC

The colonists all over America were scared that something like this could happen to them and they united behind the people of Boston. George Washington said, “Shall we supinely sit, and see one province after another fall a sacrifice to despotism?”

"The Intolerable Acts on the Path to Rebellion." Battlefields.org, American
Battlefield Trust, www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/intolerable-acts.