The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . d out theusual crowd. There happenedto be a sentinel in the vicinitydoing duty on his post at apublic building. The crowdjeered and annoyed him untilhe was compelled to call forthe rest of the guard. Whenthe latter appeared they weresurrounded by a hooting mob,who pelted them with snow-balls and prodded them withsticks. In the excitement oneof the soldiers fired, and im-mediately the guard followedKing George the Third. ^-^j^ ^ ^^^1^^ . ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ men were killed and wounded.^ This incident did much towardprecipitating
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . d out theusual crowd. There happenedto be a sentinel in the vicinitydoing duty on his post at apublic building. The crowdjeered and annoyed him untilhe was compelled to call forthe rest of the guard. Whenthe latter appeared they weresurrounded by a hooting mob,who pelted them with snow-balls and prodded them withsticks. In the excitement oneof the soldiers fired, and im-mediately the guard followedKing George the Third. ^-^j^ ^ ^^^1^^ . ^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^^^ men were killed and wounded.^ This incident did much towardprecipitating The Tea Tax. 1770-1773. — At last, at the demand of the Eng-lish merchants and manufacturers, in March, 1770, the dutieson everything except tea were removed. The duty on tea wasthreepence (six cents) a pound. Lord North, then the primeminister of England, said that the tea tax must be retained, asa mark of the supremacy of the Parliament and its right togovern the colonies. As a matter of fact, the retention of thistax increased the prevailing bad 1 In order to allay popular feeling, the soldiers of the guard were tried formurder. Josiah Quincy and John Adams defended them, and all but two wereacquitted. Two were found guilty of manslaughter. 2 In the year following the Boston riot, an outbreak occurred at Alamance inNorth Carolina, where a pitched battle was fought in resistance to excessivetaxes laid by the governor. The colonial force was defeated. In 1772 a numberof Rhode Island people captured and burned a British revenue vessel, the Gaspee,which had been collecting duties from Providence vessels. THE ESTRANGEMENT OF THE COLONIES 131 The merchants in the leading American cities had adheredstrictly to their policy of bnying no tea from the English import-ers, known as the East India Company. This company suppliedthe colonial markets with the products of the Oriental obtain the tea tax a simple but ingenious plan was arrangedwhereby the companys t
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