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This anxiety may have been one of the many underlying causes of the hysteria that sparked the Salem Witch Trials in Boston continued to grow, despite small-pox outbreaks in , and The city had over 13, residents by By the midth century, Massachusetts Bay Colony had grown into a successful colony with a large trade industry that exported fish, lumber and farm products to Europe.
This tension slowly began to sow the seeds for the American Revolution in Boston. The first protests of the American Revolution began after the passage of the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act was a tax on all printed materials in the colonies in The colonists resented the tax because they saw it as a greedy attempt to make money off the colony.
As a result, a number of protests and riots took place across the colonies, including a number of destructive riots in Boston. During these riots, which took place in August of , angry mobs tarred and feathered tax collectors, hung an effigy of tax commissioner Andrew Oliver from the Liberty Tree on Boston Common and looted and damaged the homes of many customs officials, including the Governor of Massachusetts Thomas Hutchinson.
Due to the threats and violence, when the Stamp Act went into effect on November 1st, all of the tax collectors had quit and there was no one to collect the tax. The Stamp Act was then repealed in March of To celebrate the repeal, Boston citizens decorated ships and houses with streamers, held a fireworks display and rang bells all over the city. The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, , and began as another protest, this time over the large presence of British soldiers sent to the city to protect customs officials after the passage of the unpopular Townshend Acts.
The massacre took place after a number of citizens had gathered outside the Old State House on what was then King Street and began insulting and harassing the soldiers on guard. More soldiers appeared to provide back up. When one of the soldiers left his post to strike a protester, this prompted the mob to begin throwing rocks, sticks and snowballs at the soldiers.
Chaos ensued and the soldiers fired into the crowd, killing five civilians. A trial was held in November of that year, during which John Adams defended the soldiers.
Six of the soldiers were found not guilty and two were convicted of manslaughter and were punished by being branded with the letter M, for manslaughter, on the thumb. The protest was over the passage of the Tea Act, which placed a tax on all tea sold in the colonies.
The British government responded by closing Boston harbor and placing the city under military rule. Around 10 p. Revere warned many colonists along the way and arrived in Lexington around midnight. This blockade resulted in a year long occupation of Boston by the British army, known as the Siege of Boston, during which the British and colonists engaged in numerous skirmishes and battles, such as the Battle of Bunker Hill in June of The siege ended in March of , after the colonial army fortified nearby Dorchester Heights with cannons seized at Fort Ticonderoga and forced the British to flee the city via their fleet of ships.
The potato famine in Ireland led to a surge in Irish immigrants in the s, which helped push the population of Boston close to , people. Boston during the Civil War was a tense and sometimes violent place where abolitionists, Irish laborers and freed slaves clashed over political and social issues.
Summer Street after the Great Boston Fire of Although the city had developed rapidly during the Civil War, the water mains had not been upgraded, which hampered efforts to control the fire.
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