The British nation a history / by George MWrong . lete, when forty or fifty Bosto-nians, disguised asMohawk Indians,boarded them atnight, and emptiedinto Boston Har-bour the cargoesof tea, valued at£18,000. The Boston Tea Party roused the British nation, which girded itself )^ \ Britain resolves *° ^^^^ *^^^ rebellious colonial spirit. Parlia-vj ?- to coerce the uient passed drastic measures. It closed and? P colonies. blockaded the port of Boston until the town y should atone for the lawless deed; gave authority to the governor of Massachusetts to place a veto upon the actsof the Assembly, an
The British nation a history / by George MWrong . lete, when forty or fifty Bosto-nians, disguised asMohawk Indians,boarded them atnight, and emptiedinto Boston Har-bour the cargoesof tea, valued at£18,000. The Boston Tea Party roused the British nation, which girded itself )^ \ Britain resolves *° ^^^^ *^^^ rebellious colonial spirit. Parlia-vj ?- to coerce the uient passed drastic measures. It closed and? P colonies. blockaded the port of Boston until the town y should atone for the lawless deed; gave authority to the governor of Massachusetts to place a veto upon the actsof the Assembly, and sent a soldier, General Gage, to re-place Hutchinson, the civilian governor. Boston was prac-tically occupied by a military force. Meanwhile the colo-nies were arming. Virginia, in ardent sympathy withMassachusetts, invited a general congress to meet at Phila-^j-^-^iJ^delphia in SeptemberUHi- Twelve out of thirteen colo-Q nies sent representatives, and the movement was at once soformidable as to invite concession from any one less obsti-. OR DIE Unite or Die. A oontemiiorary cartoon urging union between the colonies. 470 THE BRITISH NATION The beginningof hostilities. nate than George III. The Congress made firm demandsthat involved the repeal of some dozen British acts of Par-liament. But neither side was yet willing to draw back,and, instead of yielding, the British Parliament passedfurther coercive measures. It had also furnished thecolonies with a new grievance by passing the Quebec Act,which established a despotic government at Quebec to rulethe territory recently acquired from France, and handedover to it a great part of the vast interior of the conti-nent ; the act also conferred large liberties upon the Ro-man Church. The colonies feared the same despotism forthemselves, and resented bitterly the privileges granted tothe old enemy of Puritanism, the Church of Rome. In April, 1775, the colonial militia attacked at Lexing-ton, near Boston, a force sent by General Gage
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