Chapter 6.1

In June 1772 a British customs ship ran aground near Providence, R.I. ( $Gaspee$ )
citizens boarded the ship and captured and removed the crew and burned the ship
British sent a commission to investigate and make arrests
Boston Town Meeting authorized Committee of Correspondence
- this committee provided info and model of intercolonial cooperation which helped unite the colonies
$Tea Act 1773 - East India Company gained a monopoly in the colonies$
tea became a symbol of tyranny and coffee became popular
Boston Tea Party - tea arrived Nov. 28, 1773 & patriots tried to have it returned
Dec 16, 1773 - Boston Town Meeting
The party emptied 342 cases of tea into the harbor
when all the tea was gone, the ships were cleaned and the crews were released by the angry patriots
Paxton Boys - vigilante group that attacked Indians
Regulators - attacked local colonial leaders
Coercive Acts - 1774

Quebec Act - Roman Catholicism is official religion of Canada
1st continental congress in Philly’s Carpenters Hall - all colonies $except Georgia$ sent representatives
- adopted declaration of rights that stated the colonies must be self governing
militia - citizen soldiers
regulars - actual soldiers
minutemen - quick form of defense during surprise attacks
March 1775 - Virginia Convention - Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death”
Thomas Gage suppresses militia in Massachusetts countryside
April 18, 1775 - British assembled for March on Concord and planned to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams
Paul Revere and William Dawes midnight ride
70 minutemen made it to fight the British, but lost
Americans advanced on North Bridge near Concord to fight
Many Patriots were killed but in the end the Americans won