History and government of the United States, for evening schools . Theother colonies also resistedthe new laws promptly andvigorously. Boston Port Bill. — Atlast the king determined toruin Boston and thereby tofrighten all the other sections of the countryinto submission. By the Boston Port Bill theharbor was closed to all shipping. Besides this,many British soldiers were quartered in the city, toawe the inhabitants. But the people of Massachusettscould not be frightened, and many of the colonistselsewhere offered to assist them, by donations ofmoney and merchandise, to endure the oppression.
History and government of the United States, for evening schools . Theother colonies also resistedthe new laws promptly andvigorously. Boston Port Bill. — Atlast the king determined toruin Boston and thereby tofrighten all the other sections of the countryinto submission. By the Boston Port Bill theharbor was closed to all shipping. Besides this,many British soldiers were quartered in the city, toawe the inhabitants. But the people of Massachusettscould not be frightened, and many of the colonistselsewhere offered to assist them, by donations ofmoney and merchandise, to endure the oppression. 34. The Leaders in Resistance. — Before the breaking out ofarmed resistance, there arose several leaders who by voice andpen urged their friends and neighbors to assert the rights of 1 The more important of these laws and related events were: Stamp Act,1765; Toionshend Acts, 1767; Boston Massacre, 1770; North Carolina,Insurrection against Governor Tryon, 1771; Boston Tea Party, 1773;Sosto7i Port Bill, 1774; Quebec Act, 1774; Newfoundland Fisheries Act, 1775. UISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY 81 Englishmen. The most important of these rights had fre-quently been exercised in English history. This was the rightto make armed resistance to the officers of the king when thesubjects believed the king was doing wrong. Among theseleaders were Patrick Henry of Virginia and James Otis ofMassachusetts, both great orators; Samuel Adams of Massa-chusetts, a politician and organizer; Benjamin Franklin ofPennsylvania, printer, journalist, author, scientist, and states-man; and John Dickinson, a lawyer and writer. Organization for Resistance. — In one way and another, thesemen, with numerous associates, organized the spirit of opposi-tion and established committees of correspondence, Sons ofLiberty, committees of safety, and non-importation soci-eties, so that when the people w^ere sufficiently aroused tomake armed resistance, they were also ready to overthrow theirold governments and to set up new
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