Boston Massacre
Brantley Wise
History 10
Assigment #3
Historical ID's
1) Homespun virtue was a reaction to the Stamp Act of 1764 (which was put in place to tax all American colonist for most printed material). The colonist decided to boycott British goods, and make their own clothes at home.
Usually the colonist loved to dress British, they felt a sense of pride dressing like them, but ever since the boycotting began, you were honored more if you were wearing your own homemade clothes, looking as if you were poor. Even the upper-class colonist stopped buying luxurious goods from the British, and began living a cheaper lifestyle.
2) The Boston Massacre was an incident on a cold night in Boston, MA, on
March 5, 1770, where a fight broke out between British soldiers and Boston civilians. The British soldiers had been stationed in Boston since 1768, and the people of Boston did not like this one bit. On that March night, men and boys started throwing rocks, snowballs, and oyster shells at the soldiers on duty, as a rebellion, which caused some soldiers to shoot their guns into the crowd, without being told to do so by their captain, killing 5 and injuring 6.
This event made the people of Boston, and other surrounding colonies, to completely hate the British government, and want to be separated from
British rule.
3) The Intolerable Acts, or the coercive acts of 1774, was the British response to the Boston tea party, that happened the year before. As punishment, British parliament passed a series of laws in Massachusetts, also hoping it would be an example to other colonies to not try and resist authority. A few of these laws were, one, a complete shut down of the Boston
Harbor, until all of the tea that was dumped into the water December 1773, was paid for. Two, they declared that they will not allow any type of town, or group meetings among the colonist, that had anything to do with the British government, or any other legal matter, and three, they
History 10
Assigment #3
Historical ID's
1) Homespun virtue was a reaction to the Stamp Act of 1764 (which was put in place to tax all American colonist for most printed material). The colonist decided to boycott British goods, and make their own clothes at home.
Usually the colonist loved to dress British, they felt a sense of pride dressing like them, but ever since the boycotting began, you were honored more if you were wearing your own homemade clothes, looking as if you were poor. Even the upper-class colonist stopped buying luxurious goods from the British, and began living a cheaper lifestyle.
2) The Boston Massacre was an incident on a cold night in Boston, MA, on
March 5, 1770, where a fight broke out between British soldiers and Boston civilians. The British soldiers had been stationed in Boston since 1768, and the people of Boston did not like this one bit. On that March night, men and boys started throwing rocks, snowballs, and oyster shells at the soldiers on duty, as a rebellion, which caused some soldiers to shoot their guns into the crowd, without being told to do so by their captain, killing 5 and injuring 6.
This event made the people of Boston, and other surrounding colonies, to completely hate the British government, and want to be separated from
British rule.
3) The Intolerable Acts, or the coercive acts of 1774, was the British response to the Boston tea party, that happened the year before. As punishment, British parliament passed a series of laws in Massachusetts, also hoping it would be an example to other colonies to not try and resist authority. A few of these laws were, one, a complete shut down of the Boston
Harbor, until all of the tea that was dumped into the water December 1773, was paid for. Two, they declared that they will not allow any type of town, or group meetings among the colonist, that had anything to do with the British government, or any other legal matter, and three, they