Boston

Red Coats

• The Red Coats were in the American colonies fighting for the king.
• The colonists wanted their own food and money.
• The king took the colonists' money in the form of taxes.

Boston, 1762

• There were lots of mobs in Boston in 1762.
• King George banned all the goods from England.
• The English king sent Red Coats to Boston.
• Nobody liked the Red Coats so they had big mobs.
• One of the Red Coats even got shot in the shoulder.

Untitled Slide