Chapter 15

EVENTS OF 1770.--AN EVENTFUL EPOCH.--EXPECTATIONS OF RECONCILIATION AND UNION DISAPPOINTED. 364-373

Collisions between the soldiers and inhabitants in Boston 365

The soldiers insulted and abused 365

The Boston Massacre; the soldiers acquitted by a Boston jury 365

The payment of official salaries independent of the Colonies another cause of dissatisfaction 366

What had been claimed by the old American Colonies contended for in Canada, and granted, to the satisfaction and progress of the country 367

Lord North's Bill to repeal the Colonial Revenue Acts, except the duty on tea, which he refused to repeal until "America should be prostrate at his feet" 368

Governor Pownall's speech and amendment to repeal the duty on tea, rejected by a majority of 242 to 204 369

Associations in the Colonies against the use of tea imported from England 370

The tea duty Act of Parliament virtually defeated in America 370

The controversy revived and intensified by the agreement between Lord North and the East India Company, to remit the duty of a shilling in the pound on all teas exported by it to America, where the threepence duty on the pound was to be collected 371

Combined opposition of English and American merchants, and the Colonists from New Hampshire to Georgia, against this scheme 372