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Crispus Attucks
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The "Boston Massacre" occurred on March 5, 1770. A squad of British soldiers.
come to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling, snowballing
crowd, let loose a volley of shots. Three persons were killed immediately and two
Died later of their wounds, among the victims was Crispus Attucks, a man of black
or Indian parentage. Many historian believe that Crispus Attucks was the same
man who in 1750 was advertised as a runaway slave from Framingham, Ma. A
stranger to Boston, he was leading a march against the Townsend Acts when the
killing occurred. Paul Revere who was one of the great patriots of his time,
sketched a drawing about the massacre which took place, as well as John Pufford
who also drew about the killing. Through research we can conclude that Paul
Reveres and John Pufford were both important factors in capturing what really
happened in "The Boston Massacre" and that Crispus Attucks was the first black
to fall in the American Revolution.
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Intolerable Acts
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name given to four laws passed by the British Parliament in March 1774 to punish the colony of Massachusetts for defying British policies. Resentment of these acts led to the outbreak of the American Revolution (1775-1783). The Boston Port Act closed the port of Boston to trade; the Massachusetts Government Act revoked the colony's charter and forbade town meetings; the Quartering Act required that the colonists provide billets for British soldiers; and the Impartial Administration of Justice Act removed British officials from the jurisdiction of Massachusetts courts. The First Continental Congress convened in September 1774 to formulate a response to the acts.
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Committees of Correspondence
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colonial groups organized prior to the American Revolution to mobilize public opinion and coordinate patriotic actions against Great Britain. They were established by private citizens, town councils, and legislatures in the American colonies. Although colonial legislatures had appointed committees and charged them with communicating with their counterparts in other provinces during the 1760s, the first revolutionary use of Committees of Correspondence occurred in Massachusetts in 1772. On November 2, the Boston town meeting voted to establish a 21-member committee "to state the Rights of the Colonists and of this Province in particular," to the other towns in the colony. Thereafter committees were formed throughout Massachusetts to respond to the Bostonians' communications. So successful were these committees in generating support for the province's radical opposition to the British that the Boston committee itself soon became a power in Massachusetts politics, where it assumed a leading role in organizing resistance to the Tea Act in 1773. NO PIC
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