Answer: Tensions started to rise, and a patriot crowd assaulted a British loyalist in Boston in February 1770, killing a youngster when he shot a rifle at them. Brawls between colonists and British soldiers continued over the next few days, culminating in the Boston Massacre.
Explanation:
The British Parliament adopted rigorous measures for the collection of revenue taxes in the colonies in 1767, in an attempt to recuperate the great money lost in the defense of its North American colonies during the French and Indian War (1754–63). Those responsibilities were part of a set of four legislation known as the Townshend Acts, which were meant to impose Parliament's power over the colonies, in contrast to the British government's policy of salutary neglect in the early to mid-eighteenth century. Many colonists in Massachusetts were outraged when such tariffs were imposed on lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea when they arrived in colonial ports. The colonial response included harassment of British officials and vandalism, in addition to planned boycotts of particular items.
