gton in 1775, the course of American history, and world history for that matter, was changed forever.

With the arrival of fifty-five delegates from the colonies, what would become known as the American Revolution was taking shape. These men sized each other up, expressed their views, and with their decision to resist the Coercive Acts, realized that they would all commit treason together. This meeting displayed just how much these revolutionary minds wanted to be set free from Great Britain. Their stride towards independence was so close within their grip. The situation at hand just needed a slight push to make the idea of a revolution, become a revolution.

When Parliament got word of this, they unleashed the Coercive Acts in March of 1774. These acts were a direct punishment to Boston’s rebelliousness. The acts stated that the port of Boston will close until the cost of lost tea be replaced, transformed the Massachusetts government from an elected body of officials to an appointed one, restricted town meetings, and authorized the British army to quarter troops wherever they were needed. This was supposed to teach Boston a lesson, and the other colonies were expected to learn from it. Instead, thanks to the Committees of Correspondence, Americans once again boycotted all trade with Great Britain, and in September of 1774, the First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia.

In 1764, a British official informed colonists that even though they had not elected members to Parliament, and even though they had no direct contact with them, the colonists would continue to be represented by Parliament. Parliament represented the political interests of everyone who lived in the British Empire, and it was irrelevant whether or not everyone had cast a vote. However, Americans felt that since members of Parliament could not think like Americans, they had no business representing them. At the time, this was not a big problem for the colonies, but in retrospect, this line of thinking on Britain’s behalf, would prove to be the planting of the revolutionary seed in the American soil.

At this point in time, it is important to note how influential groups such as the Pamphleteers and the Sons of Liberty, specifically Samuel Adams were to the revolutionary cause. Historically speaking, the deaths of five people would not categorize itself into a massacre, but this is how this incident was being billed. The Pamphleteers were a group of people who spread written materials supporting the cause of the colonies, usually embellishing the facts to gather more support. Immediately after the “massacre”, the Pamphleteers quickly recognized the dead as martyrs. “Samuel Adams and his coadjutors were determined to make the Boston Massacre an enduring symbol of British tyranny.” While the British repealed most of the Townshend Acts except for the tax on tea, the colonies enjoyed some peace and prosperity between 1770 and 1772. Adams continued to remind people that there was still a tax on tea and organized anniversaries to remind people of the repeal of the Stamp Act and the Boston Massacre. He knew that this brief period of tranquility would soon pass and wanted the colonists to remember just what the British were capable of.

One night in December of 1773, 6 months after Parliament passed the Tea Act; an incident took place in Boston harbor which greatly

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