A history of the United States for Catholic schools . owd of men andboys together. The cityguard was insulted and afight ensued in which abouta dozen men were killed orwounded (1770). TheBoston Massacre greatlywidened the breach betweenEngland and her mass meeting was held inthe Old South Church. Samuel Adams, the Father of the Revolution, was a result of the meeting the governor was ordered to with-draw the soldiers, and, thinking it imprudent to refuse, heremoved them to an island in Boston harbor. In the year following the Boston riot, the colonial forcewas defeated
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . owd of men andboys together. The cityguard was insulted and afight ensued in which abouta dozen men were killed orwounded (1770). TheBoston Massacre greatlywidened the breach betweenEngland and her mass meeting was held inthe Old South Church. Samuel Adams, the Father of the Revolution, was a result of the meeting the governor was ordered to with-draw the soldiers, and, thinking it imprudent to refuse, heremoved them to an island in Boston harbor. In the year following the Boston riot, the colonial forcewas defeated in a pitched battle fought in North Carolina,in resistance to excessive taxes and unlawful imprison-ment. In 1772, a number of Rhode Island people captured andburned a British revenue vessel, the Gaspee, which had beenactive in suppressing smuggling along the Rhode Island coast. 242. The Tea Tax. Parliament, alarmed by the oppositionof the colonists, now repealed all the Townshend tax measuresexcept the one on tea (1770). This tax Parliament imposed. OLD SOUTH CHURCH 178 A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES merely to show the colonies that it had a right to tax themat pleasure. Notwithstanding that tea in America was cheaperthan in England, the colonists refused to pay the tax, on theground that it was not cheap tea they wanted, but untaxedtea. Large cargoes of tea were sent to various American people of New York and Philadelphia refused, however,to allow the cargoes to be unshipped; in Charleston, tea wasstored away; in Boston, a number of men disguised as Indiansboarded the tea-ships, ripped open every chest, and emptiedthe contents into the harbor in the presence of a large party ofpeople (1773). This was known as the Boston Tea Party, atwhich over three hundred chests of tea, valued at about ninetythousand dollars, were destroyed. 243. The Five Intolerable Acts. To punish the defiant re-sistance to the tea tax Parliament now passed (1774) TheFive Intolerable Acts,—The
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