New Taxes Equals New Protests

The Crown's Chief Financial Officer, Charles Townshend, thought that the colonists would agree with indirect taxes on commerce. In 1767 the Parliament passed the Townshend Acts which levied new import duties to items used daily as glass, lead, paint, tea and paper. This taxes would be used to pay the governors and judges in colonies and control them.

"Oh Lord, here it comes!" "Again?!"

   1. Violence Erupts in Boston
To protest against this new tax-collecting Act, a circulaar letter was passed by the Massachusetts Legislature and this threw in motion The Massachusetts Government Act by the Parliament, which appointed a selected-by-the-king Governor and cut the ability to govern themselves.
In June 1768 a boat called Liberty and leaded by John Hancock was captured by the British since the boat smuggled items under the Townshend Acts.
John Hancock- a prominent politician and wealthy merchant thanks to the smuggling.
With the seizure of the Liberty, lead many riots against custom officers. In order to suppress this riots, 4,000 British troops, or better called as Redcoats, were sent to occupy Boston (Population- 16,000). Anger and hate grew in the colonists since Redcoats were translating from their encampments to colonial houses and taking small jobs for their own.
In March 5, 1770 a group of Bostonians went angry to the Boston's Custom House and threw rocks with snowballs to the soldiers and the building, to counter-attack the soldiers fired and took 5 colonists lives. This event was eventually known as the Boston Massacre.

Sailor Crispus Attucks

Crispus Attucks- Runaway slave who worked under the command of Samuel Adams as a sailor. Crispus was one of the killed colonists of the Boston Massacre.
Finally Samuel Adams integrated the Committee of Correspondence by 1773 and this gave the colonies the ability of communication between them.