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A. Massacre Unrest in resulting from the riot in June 1768 led to the stationing of British troops in . On March 5, 1770, a group of soldiers facing an unruly crowd opened fire and killed five Bostonians. Patriot leaders used this “massacre” as effective propaganda, but they also worked to ensure a fair to keep the soldiers from becoming martyrs for the loyalist cause. . A British Plot? Patriot writers editorialized that planned the political enslavement of . When the ministry took steps to enforce the Townshend Act, which provided for governors and judges to be paid from customs revenues, patriots created a Committee of Correspondence to publicize the move. . Samuel Adams and the Committees of Correspondence This outspoken patriot worked to build anti-British consensus in . Committees of Correspondence were established throughout the colonies. The Boston Committee of Correspondence sought to establish a consensus that recognized the need to protect American liberties. The Boston Statement of Rights and Grievances was published as a pamphlet and distributed to Massachusetts The document placed American rights first, loyalty to second. . Tea and Turmoil . Reactions to the Tea Act In May of 1773, Parliament approved the Tea Act, which was designed to save the East India Company from bankruptcy. The Tea Act gave the British East India Company a monopoly on the distribution and sale of tea in the American colonies. The tax on tea, left over from the Townshend Duties, would apply to the sale of this tea. Patriots feared the subtle implications of the law. As tea ships arrived, different things happened at different ports. In , protesters “disguised” as Indians dumped 342 chests of tea into the harbor. . Coercive and Acts Parliament responded to the Tea by passing four Coercive, or Intolerable, Acts to punish and . At the same time, Parliament approved a bill that allowed the Catholic Church and French civil law in , while also increasing the size of that territory. Americans became convinced that the British had embarked on a deliberate plan to oppress them. The colonies agreed to send delegates to Philadelphia to attend the First Continental Congress. VIII. The Unsettled Backcountry Land Riots in the North Growing competition for good farmland resulted in a number of violent disputes in New Jersey and along the Hudson River. “Regulators” in the South In the Carolinas, frontier people’s unhappiness with the colonial governments led to violence in the 1760s and 1770s. Renewed Indian Warfare