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were meet with violence and government to reassert imperial
death, which made the relationship authority int Massachusetts.
between the two counties more
heated than ever. One case can be One of the most well-known
seen with the Boston Massacre in traitor of the American revolution
1770, when the British soldiers was General Benedict Arnold as was
opened fire on a crowed killing 5 responsible for the Revolutionary
men. The Americans answered with War as he was the one who got a
a revolution themselves by dressing group of rebels to lead forces into
up as Mohawk Indians and dumped capturing Fort Ticonderoga in
hundreds of chests filled with tea May of 1775. In response, a group
into the Boston Harbor, this act of of American delegates including,
treason was meet with very strict George Washington, John Adams,
acts which imposed the British Samuel Adams, and Patrick Henry
