New Taxes Lead To New Protests
British still needed to raise money to pay what they spent and the salaries. In 1767 Charles Townshend , financial chief officer, thought that they should tax the colonists indirectly by adding taxes to the glass, paints, lead, paper and tea among others. But the colonists still protested that they wouldn’t pay any type of taxes to the British government.
Large riots rose, mostly from Boston; one of the most famous being The Boston Massacre. This involved a group of protestants that started throwing rocks to the soldiers that were guarding a custom house. In defence, the soldiers shoot to five colonists.
After this happening, Samuel Adams created the Committee of Correspondence. The function of this was a form of communication between the colonies so that they could have a fast comeback to any decision the British government took against them. This was vital for the independence; it provoked colonial unity.
Still the colonists had to fight against the taxed of the Parliament. The Parliament was starting to worry because their way of getting money was not working. They decided to emit an act declaring that The British East India Company (that was going bankrupt because colonists didn’t buy their tea) could sell directly to the consumer and that lowered the Price, making it better to buy that tea rather than the smuggled Dutch Tea. But the colonist still did buy their tea, instead in December of 1773, a group of Boston Patriots disguised as Indians , boarded a tea ship, broke every tea container and threw it to the sea. This act is known as the Boston Tea Party and it is still celebrated on the United States.
