...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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