...known definitively about his ancestry, his father is thought to be Prince Yonger, a slave who was brought to America, while his mother is thought to be Nancy Attucks, a Natick Indian. In the Boston Gazette on Oct. 2, 1750, William Brown, a resident of Framingham, Mass., advertised for the recovery of a runaway slave named “Crispas”—usually thought to be the Crispus in question. That advertisement proclaimed that “Crispas” had run away and described him as 27 years old and 6 feet 2 inches tall. In the 20-year interval between his escape from slavery and his death at the hands of British soldiers, Attucks probably spent a good deal of time aboard whaling ships....
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...“What was the Cause and effect of the Boston Massacre?” History IB HL Year 1 Internal Assessment Word Count: 1625 Table of Contents Cover sheet……………………………………………………………………………………………...Pg1 Table of contents……………………………………………………………………………………..Pg2 Plan of investigation………………………………………………………………………………..Pg3 Summary of Evidence.……………………………………………………………………………..Pg3-5 Evaluation of Sources……………………………………………………………………………...Pg5-6 Analysis…………………………………………………………………………………………………..Pg6- 8 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………………Pg8 Works Cited…………………………………………………………………………………………….Pg9 A. Plan of Investigation The purpose of this paper is to answer the question, “what was the cause and effect of the Boston Massacre?” The body of the summary of evidence will investigate the people of the Boston Massacre. The summary of evidence will also investigate some of the lead up to the massacre. Documents will be analyzed to find causes and the build up to the Boston Massacre. The looking at a primary source and secondary sources will be heavily used. This paper will include the effects of the Boston Massacre such as the propaganda used to over exaggerate the Boston Massacre. In the documents being scoped at in this paper there will be the effects of the Boston Massacre such as The Committee of Correspondence and the 1773 Tea Act. While focusing on these aspects we analyze them into further investigation. B. Summary of Evidence The colonists were angering King George III, so...
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...going to discuss the influential aspects that Mr. Crispus Attucks and Mr. Phillis Wheatley had on American history pertaining to the American Revolution. In 1770, Mr. Attucks may have been a slave or a freeman, but his infamy came from being the first casualty in the Boston Massacre and even credited as the first American casualty in the American Revolution. For over a century many people have debated whether he was a hero and an instigator or just a rambling villain. In the murder trial, James Madison, who was a lawyer serving for the crown, stated that Mr. Attucks reviled mad behavior and that his very looks was enough to terrify anyone. The description of Mr. Attucks was that of 6’2 statue and a mulatto skin color because his father was an African and his mother was a Native American. He was...
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...consequences, will end up being the first civilian shot and killed during the Boston Massacre, as well as the first casualty of the American Revolution. After British control over the colonies tightened, tensions escalated and Crispus Attucks found himself to be one of the few to be directly affected by this worsening situation. Attucks was a rope maker and seaman along with many others and lived with the constant threat of being forced into the British navy. On March 2 in 1770 a fight erupted between three British soldiers and a group of rope makers, which set the stage for a future confrontation and sparked the result of the Boston Massacre. Three days later a fight broke out again when a British soldier entered a...
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...The Colonists Since 1765, the people of Boston had been having protests against the british taxing them. First against the Stamp Acts, then in 1767 against the Townshend Acts. Many citizens believed that Britain did not have the right to tax them because they did not have their representatives in Parliament. Only the Massachusetts Assembly, whose members were elected every year, had the right to put taxes on the colonies. The day is March 5, 1770 right outside the Customs House, the day the Boston Massacre occurred. A colonist walked over to a sober soldier had a few words with him. The soldier hit him randomly with the painful butt of his hard wood and metal gun. The colonist walked over to the other colonists and explained what happened...
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...The Boston “Bloody” Massacre took place on the streets of Boston on March 5, 1770. An angry mob started throwing snowballs at senator or collecting taxes. As the mob started to get violent an army of redcoats come to help break up the fight. The overall fight started when the king that was over 3,000 miles away sent over 2,000 troops over for a town of 16,000 people. The redcoats aim their weapons, but are told not to fire, the mob keeps coming at them. They are throwing snowballs and not giving up the fight. Soon the redcoats shoot, the first person to fall was a black sailor named Crispus Attucks who was in the front of the mob. Soon the word of the massacre spread all throughout Boston. Paul Revere, a man who worked for the newspaper, took...
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...My project is about Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave from the 18th century. Crispus was believed to be born the year of 1723, in Framingham, Massachusetts. He is also believed to have been born into slavery since his father was most likely a slave and his mother was a Natick Indian. At around the age of 27, in 1750, Crispus finally had his dream come true and he was able to escape slavery, just after he escaped, he moved to Boston and changed his name to Michael Johnson. Shorty after, his owner (William Brown) put up an advertisement offering £10 to whoever brought him back. Crispus was mainly known for gallantly giving his life for Pre-America which ended up being the first casualty of the United States Revolution. Crispus was unlucky...
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...The Townshend riots led to a heavier, more intense war between the Patriots and the Loyalists. This resulted in rebellion, war, death, loss, protesting but most of all freedom. Before the Boston Massacre took place, three times between 1689 and 1748, France and Great Britain had fought for power in North America and Europe. Every war ended uneasily and tense. Soon enough in 1754 tensions arose once again. After the long conflict, The French and Indian war awaited. In the early years of the war the French thoroughly enjoyed having their advantages on the British. The english colonies couldn’t agree on one united defense because all the 13 colonies all had to approve on the decision. Meanwhile the French only had one single government and more Indian allies than the British. Although the French had their strengths so did the British. The English colonies were clustered along the coast, so they were easier to defend than the scattered French settlements. They had a much larger population than New France, and the British navy ruled the seas. In...
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...The Boston massacre had a major role in the America’s fight for freedom. Over the years some people think the Boston Massacre was not the worst event that occurred in the American Revolution, but it still had a role in in starting the war. The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 between a “patriot” mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. A squad of British soldiers, came to support a sentry who was being pressed by a heckling crowd, let loose a volley shots. The massacre was named as one of the first battles of the Revolutionary war. It happened because protests did not want British troops in their city, which were sent to enforce the unpopular taxation laws. The soldiers raised their weapons and the protests responded by throwing snowballs, and other objects until something hit a soldier causing him to fire his weapon out into the crowd. Despite the fact that the Boston Massacre pushed us closer to war....
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...The Boston Massacre that happened in March of 1770 during the Revolutionary war started with the boycott of British products that caused unemployment in Britain. Lord North sent British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop the demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, instead it lead to the growing of mistrust between the British soldiers and the Americans. The soldiers were made fun of and heckled by the mobs because their uniform. Their presents provoked and annoyed the Patriots and that caused fighting between the soldiers and the citizens. The Boston Massacre got its name because of the violent confrontation between British soldiers and a Boston mob (pg. 129). On March 5, 1770 the massacre which was...
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...The Boston Massacre By: Sheraveen and Javier 8D What: The Boston Massacre is a street fight between rebellions/ patriot mobs(local workers, sailors,etc) which were throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks and a squad of British soldiers. It killed 5 British colonists including Crispus Attucks, a man of black or Indian parentage. Who: British soldiers and rebellions such as the local workers, sailors, etc When: It occurred during 5 March 1770 Where: City of Boston, in the street How it happened: The Boston Massacre occurred when around 50 citizens attacked a british soldier. The British soldiers then attacked the rebellions. It was because the citizens doesn’t like the British soldiers in their town. It was because of the tax that was heavily...
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...On March 5, 1770, the infamous riot known as the Boston Massacre took place. The event took place during the snowy night where colonists gathered at the Customs House in Boston to taunt the British soldiers in front of the building. The mobs of people were protesting the occupation of British troops in the colonies. The article “Boston Massacre” written by History says “The British troops had been billeted in Boston in October 1768 after repeated requests from British customs officials, who had been harassed and intimidated because of their efforts to enforce the Townshend Acts.” The soldiers’ captain, Thomas Preston, order his men to aim their bayonets into the crowd. The colonists then reacted to this by throwing snowballs and any other...
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...The Boston Massacre was a crucial event in shaping the American Revolutionary War. The massacre occurred when British soldiers opened fire on the townspeople of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. There were many events leading up to the massacre and many resounding effects. Tensions in Boston had been steadily rising with the implantation of taxes, the boycott of British goods, the Liberty riot, and the occupation of Boston by British troops leading to the Boston Massacre, which provided martyrs for freedom and gained support for war throughout the colonies. The taxation of Britain on the American colonists was the start of a series of events leading to the Boston Massacre. Taxes started being imposed after the French and Indian War,...
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...The Boston Massacre occurred in March 5, 1770 in Boston Massachusetts. Many angry Patriots and British soldiers shouted and yelled. We threw sticks, snowballs, and more at the British soldiers. Shots were fired at the British. Only 5 people were killed and only 6 were wounded. The first person killed was fighting for American independence. He was an African American sailor named Crispus Attucks. This image called, “The Bloody Massacre”. by Paul Revere is a very important primary source of history. This implies that there was a lot of blood , deaths and shootings. The picture was such an exaggeration. A bunch of red coats are shooting a crowd of colonists and they were running in panic.. According to Paul Revere, the aggressors are the redcoats...
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...On the day of March 5, 1770, The Boston Massacre took place. This should not have been labeled as a “massacre”. A massacre is the killing of defenseless people. Nothing but a small riot happened and both sides, the people and the british soldiers had weapons. The people were throwing snowballs with rocks inside and clubs at the british soldiers. This fatal accident happened when the people starting brewing trouble in Boston. The bostonians thought that the Boston Patriots were the worst, most dreadful , unpleasant people in the colonies. A noisy mob of citizens were throwing rocks and ice at the soldiers that were guarding the Boston Customs House. They were daring the soldiers to fire and picking on the soldiers about their uniforms, calling them “lobsterbacks”. The mod dared them to fire while the commander of the soldiers commanded they go home and that their pleas had no effect. The soldiers were forbidden to fire on the citizens. Someone in the mob had fired, knocking a soldier to the...
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