Massacre at Boston, plus a weird "party"...

Colonies revived protests, boycotts, and intelectual protests in 1768. As usual, the biggest riots took place in Boston, the Massachussets legislator published a circular letter announcing the Townshend Acts, very little legislators payed attention to this "wake-up call", until the governor dissolved the Massachussetts legislature, and the governor passed the Massachussets Government Act, which consisted on taking control of the colony through an appointed governor. Elected assemblies were closed, and town meetings got banned. During this tense situation, the custom officers seized for a merchant ship called "Liberty" on June, 1768, so they could smug the ship. The ship was owned by a wealthy merchant called John Hancock, and he was a prominent colonial politician, this seizure set off riots against custom officers. Parliament needed(or at least try) to stop this riots, so they sent 4,000 troops to Boston, although the population of Boston had about 16,000 people. The presence of the troops angered the colonists, and increased it even more because the soldiers were poorly payed, so they also need some extra profit and the only way of getting this was havind a second job, so they began taking off the jobs from the unschooled colonists, they would compete for this jobs. All these situations made the anger on the colonists bigger and bigger, so, one night in March 5, 1770; a group of colonists throwed snowballs and rocks to some members of the troops, that were guarding the customs house, the soldiers killed 5 colonists. This was an unfair act, because the innocent colonists were just mocking the soldiers, there was no need to shoot at them and kill them. One of the victims was Crispus Attucks, who was a sailor and an escaped slave; he was half Indian, half African American. This was called as the "Boston Massacre" also known as "Boston riot" under the control of Samuel Adams, whom later organized a network of local committees of correspondence through Massachussetts , it consisted on organizing how to spread the news among the colonies. This system provided leadership and promoted unity and cooperation, by 1773, several other colonies had created committees that helped build the sense of patriotism again. Once again, Parliament backed down and withdrew the troops from Boston, also removed most of the Townshend Acts duties, except one: TEA. Even though they removed most of them, the colonists kept smuggling and boycotting the Dutch tea, this meant the situation was just getting worse.

"Boston Massacre"

The boycott worsened the financial situation of the British East India Company. In order to "help" the company and encourage the colonists to pay taxes, they passed a "useful" law that allowed this company to sell the tea directly to the colonists, but Parliament didn't understand that, that wasn't a problem, the problem was they had no representation on Parliament. This law instead of helping, it contributed to the riots, because the colonists protested that Parliament just wanted to trick them, this also affected the Dutch tea smugglers, because they couldn't smuggle and earn money anymore. Even though the tea was cheaper, they refused to buy it just to disobey Parliament. Later, the Davison Newman Company sent a ship loaded with tea to the Boston Harbor, therefore that night of December, 16, 1773 the Boston Patriots dressed up like Indians and boarded the ship, and dumped absolutely all the tea into the Harbor, this succesful and controversial riot became known as the "Boston Tea Party".

"Boston Tea Party"