Boston Massacre & Boston Tea Party

A colonial silversmith and engraver, this

passionate patriot produced a historic

engraving of the Boston Massacre entitled,

“The Bloody Massacre in King-Street.” He

did more to stir up anti-British feeling with

this engraving than anything else in

American colonial history.

• Paul Revere

• John Adams

• Crispus Attucks

• Samuel Adams

A committee formed by Samuel Adams in

which letters and pamphlets, written by

patriot colonial members, reported on

events in Massachusetts to fuel protests

against the British.

• Boston Massacre

• Custom House

• Lobster Backs

• Committee of Correspondence

A derogatory (mean) name colonists would

call British soldiers because of the red coats

they wore.

• Boston Massacre

• Crispus Attucks

• Custom House

• Lobster Backs

The lawyer who represented the British

soldiers accused of manslaughter in the

Boston Massacre.

• Samuel Adams

• Paul Revere

• Crispus Attucks

• John Adams

An incident involving British soldiers who

fired their muskets and killed five colonists.

• Committee of Correspondence

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Intolerable Acts

A former slave and dock worker who was

one of five men killed by the British in the

Boston Massacre.

• Crispus Attucks

• John Adams

• Paul Revere

• Samuel Adams

A building usually near a sea port where

taxes are collected on goods brought in and

out of a country.

• Committee of Correspondence

• Custom House

• Lobster Backs

• Writ of Assisstance

An event that occurred on December 16, 1773, where the Sons of Liberty dumped tons of tea overboard into Boston harbor to protest the Tea Act of 1773.

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Tea Party

• Tea Act of 1773

• Duty

The Massachusetts Royal Governor who was loyal to King George and allowed three tea ships from England to dock at Boston harbor. He intended to have the tea taken ashore to justify taxing the colonists, increasing the colonists’ outrage.

• John Adams

• Paul Revere

• Thomas Hutchinson

• John Hancock

A large company, owned by the English government, that shipped lots of tea from southern Asia to England and the American colonies.

• Custom House

• Writ of Assistance

• Committee of Correspondence

• British East India Company