HUMA 1970 Lecture Notes - Philip Dawe, New York Provincial Congress, New England Colonies
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This had flared, ebbed and flared for the ten years between 1965 and the stamp. Offutt describes the mob that formed in new york city in 1765 on page 51. He writes, a mob of thousands formed on the commons and proceeded downtown gathering women, boys, unemployed labourers and sailors, artisans, merchants and hanging effigies as they went . Some of the most famous outbreaks of violence did not happen in new york city but in boston, the major colonial city in the new england colonies just to the north of new york. 1770 - boston massacre british army violence against a mob. (see offutt timeline pg. 1773 boston tea party when patriots hurled british tea into boston. While all patriot, loyalist and moderate colonists were unhappy about the colonies" relationship to britain, the factions varied greatly on how to deal with it.