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The Boston Massacure
On March 5, 1770, a tension situation between British Private Hugh White and a few colonists created an event that would change american history. As the situation started to escalate on King Street, the temper of the red coats started to increase. Eventually the British starting shooting at the innocent colonists, and several Americans died that night. Boston Massacre did not get its name until a well known colonial american figure name Paul Revere created an artwork depicting the event. -
Boston Tea Party
Even after Britain lifted most of its taxes on colonial America, the enraged tea tax payers were not satisfied. In rebellion against the Tea Act, colonists dumped more than one million dollars worth of tea into the Boston Harbor. Britain's reaction was to close down the harbor and took the jobs of many people whose work associated with the harbor. -
Thomas Paine
In 1776 a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine, who at that time was the only one who advertised publicly independence from Britain. He also suggested in this writing, republican state governments and and a union of the new states. Paine spoke harshly against the British, and pushed for the colonies to elect their own government not just a third of it.
