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Boston History
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Samuel Maverick
Built a trading post on noodle Island -
William Blackstone
Built his house on the a peninsular people call clear water -
John Winthrop
Comes to Boston to crete "a city upon a hill" -
Anne Hutchinson
Banished from Boston because she was accused of practicing antinomianism -
Mary Dyer
Executed for repeatedly defying a Puritan law banning Quakers from the colony -
King Philips War
An armed conflict between the colonists and the Native Americans -
Goodwife Glover
Executed in Boston for "witchcraft" -
Salem Witch Trails
From June through September of 1692, nineteen men and women, all having been convicted of witchcraft, were carted to Gallows Hill, a barren slope near Salem Village, for hanging. -
Thomas Hutchinson
A mob ransacks his house -
The Stamp Act
Was a direct tax imposed by the British Parliament specifically on the colonies of British America. -
Red Coats
Two regiments of of the British arrive on Long Wharf -
The Boston Massacre
British redcoats killed five civilian men. British troops had been stationed in Boston since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation. A mob of Bostonians got clubs and sticks and tried scarring off the British, but they just fired on them, causing the British to go through court, which they were later found not guilty and set free. -
Christopher Seider
He dies in a political fight against the red coats in Boston. Only seventeen years old. -
The Boston Tea Party
officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor. The incident remains an iconic event of American history, and other political protests often refer to it. -
Paul Revere's Ride
Revere went on the ride to warn Adams and Hancock about the route the British were taking to Concord so the two will not get arrested by the red coats. -
The Battle of Lexington and Concord
First military engagements of the American Revolutionary War, between the colonists and the red coats. The colonists win their first fight against the British, and they are very surprised. -
The Battle of Bunker Hill
The second fight of the Revolutionary war, the colonist get the upper hand because they are at the top of the hill and the british were at the bottom of the hill. The colonists started losing amunition, and ended up losing the second fight because of the low ammo. Latter, the British occupied Bunker Hill (Breed's hill). -
British Evacuate Boston
Evacuation of British forces from the city of Boston following the Siege of Boston, early in the American Revolutionary War. The British evacuation was Washington's first victory of the war. It was also a huge morale boost for the Thirteen Colonies, as the city where the rebellion began was the first to be liberated.
