15
fired
upon
the
crowd,
wounding
or
killing
quickly
caught
on.
Soon,
these
committees
eleven
Americans.
This
day
has
come
to
be
were
popping
up
all
over
the
colonies,
and
known
as
the
Boston
Massacre,
and
it
was
these
committees
eventually
evolved
into
purely
caused
by
differing
economic
views
colonial
committees,
like
Virginia’s
House
of
between
the
colonists
and
the
British.
Burgesses.
Colonial
committees
would
make
up
the
First
Continental
Congress.
The
Townshend
Acts
failed
miserably,
producing
an
astonishingly
low
£295
in
one
In
1773,
the
British
East
India
year,
while
the
military
costs
in
the
colony
for
Company
was
going
into
bankruptcy.
The
that
year
were
£170,000.
The
acts
were
British
government,
if
they
allowed
this
to
repealed,
but
the
tax
on
tea
was
kept,
“to
keep
happen,
would
loose
a
lot
of
tax
revenue,
as
alive
the
principle
of
Parliament’s
right
to
tax
the
company
sold
a
great
deal
of
tea
to
the
the
colonies”
(Kennedy,
Cohen,
Bailey;
134).
colonies.
The
company
was
then
given
a
This
angered
many
Americans,
especially
since
monopoly
on
America’s
tea
industry,
and
they
the
Navigation
Laws
were
being
enforced
could
sell
it
lower
than
ever
before.
One
more.
Samuel
Adams,
to
create
further
would
think
colonists
would
be
happy
with
organized
opposition
to
Britain,
created
a
this
deal
on
tea,
but
it
was
not
the
case.
committee
of
correspondence
in
1772,
and
it
Americans
resented
this
deal,
as
they
thought
it
was
an
attempt
to
get
them
to
accepting
the
tax
on
tea.
British
officials
tried
to
enforce
it,
but
the
Americans
wouldn’t
h ]