Guided Reading Activity
5-2
Building Colonial Unity
Outline
I. Trouble in Boston
A.
B.
The soldiers acted rudely and sometimes
violently toward the colonists.
1. March 5, 1770
2. They threw stones, snowballs, oyster
shells, and pieces of wood at the soldiers
and screamed at them.
3. He was a dockworker and one of 5
Bostonians killed in the Boston Massacre.
C.1. Paul revere did an engraving of the massacre
that showed the British soldiers firing upon an
orderly, innocent crowd. Sam Adams put up
posters of the engraving which led to anti-British
feelings.
2. Many colonists called for stronger boycotts
on British goods – the growing opposition led
Parliament to repeal the Townshend Acts.
3. It helped bring people together from other
colonies to oppose the British.
4. tax on tea
II.
A.
B.
It gave the East India Company the right
to ship tea to the colonies without
paying most of the usual taxes. It also
allowed the company to bypass the
colonial merchants and sell its tea
directly to shopkeepers at a low price.
The ships were forced to turn around
and go back to Great Britain
C. 1. December 16, 1773
2. A group of men disguised as Mohawks
boarded British ships and threw 342 chests of
tea overboard.
D.
1.
2.
3.
4.
To punish Boston for the Boston Tea Party
Boston Harbor
town meetings
Intolerable Acts