...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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...In 1770, British soldiers shot and killed 5 people in Boston one night, and all of the colonists were furious at Britain and its army. But were they mad because of what actually happened, or was it because they were persuaded by someone’s depiction of what happened? Paul Revere’s Engraving was propaganda seen all throughout the colonies. Propaganda is ideas or statements that are often false, exaggerated, or biased in order to help a cause. It was propaganda because it was bias, exaggerated and false, and promoted furthering a cause or idea of starting the Revolution. Paul Revere’s Engraving was biased because it was altered in favor of the colonists. In the engraving, it showed that the British were bad with cruel intentions and that the colonists were innocent and had done nothing wrong. In the real story, many colonists had clubs and ice that they were using to provoke the British. But in the engraving, the colonists looked as though they were the ones being attacked, not the ones attacking. Also in the engraving, the British soldiers were looking mean and heartless. But rather they were...
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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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...To begin with, Paul Revere was an American silversmith and a patriot. He was also an ardent colonialist. Paul was known for his bravery in protecting the safety of others. He was concerned for others safety and was was not a self centered coward. He was one of the few living witnesses to hear the first shots of of the American Revolutionary War. Revere is also known for his propaganda sketch of Boston Massacre of 1770 that helped rally the colonist behind the Revolution. In the past, he went to North Writing school in his childhood. At age twelve, he learned silversmithing from his father. He moved to Boston at the age of thirteen and was apprenticed to the silversmith, John Coney. He was an early member of the Sons of Liberty and took part in the Boston Tea Party. Revere affected the colonists by making his midnight ride to Lexington and Concord to warn the colonists that the British arrived from Boston, “The British are coming.”...
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...away with Great Britain was the Boston Massacre in 1770. It was the "massacre" that changed the opinion the colonists' opinions about how they felt about the British. The story told about this bloody event is that there was confusion among the British officers when the American colonists approached, and as a result, the British randomly fired on the crowd of colonists. According to chapter 7 of the AP US history book, the American Pageant, "the British troops opened fire and killed or wounded eleven innocent citizens. One of the first to die was Crispus Attucks, described by contemporaries as a powerfully built runaway mulatto and as a leader of the mob." The results of this gory event depicted propagandas that the British were organized,...
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...As Edward Garrick lay injured on King Street after an encounter with British soldiers, word began to spread like a wildfire throughout Boston. Already enraged by heavy taxation and the presence of royal troops alone, a crowd of rowdy protesters formed and began shouting at the soldiers. As the protest escalated, the British soldiers fired into the crowd killing five men. This single event known as the “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street”, later be dubbed “The Boston Massacre”, would spark the American Revolution. To gain a better understanding of this significant event, it’s necessary to first discuss the events leading up to the tragedy, next summarize the incident from both British and American sides, and finally discuss the aftermath and impact made toward fueling the Revolutionary War. In 1768, British troops poured into Boston following hostilities with customs officials. The troops were sent to protect the Commissioners of Customs and enforce the recent Townshend Acts implemented by the British. According to History.com (1991), the Townshend acts were a series of...
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...By 1770 Boston was no longer Winthrop’s ‘city upon a hill’ whose citizenry had a covenant with God. Instead, Boston was the commercial and political epicentre of the Thirteen Colonies, and had been engulfed by a hot atmosphere of colonial discontent at the British, brought about by years of war, taxes and occupation. The discontent boiled over into riot on the evening of 5 March 1770, when Captain Thomas Preston and his seven guards arrived to relieve a Sentinel of his harassers amidst taunts of “you bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare!” from an ever-swelling crowd of eighty. One of Preston’s men responded to being struck with a weapon by firing into the crowd. The ensuing chaos left five colonists dead, six more injured and the city inflamed. Whilst it is almost certain that Preston didn’t order his men to fire, he would have faded into the mists of history, had his innocence not been later challenged during the American Revolution. Patriots idolised and misconstrued the incident; John Adams claims it laid “the foundation of American independence” from their British tyrants. Their flawed imageries of the so-called ‘Boston Massacre’ reverberated across the Thirteen Colonies, and it’s the idealism they propagated more so than the incident itself which stirred colonists to revolting against the Crown. The odds had never in Preston’s favour that faithful night, indeed it was a mixture of the provocative taunts from the ever-swelling crowd and the darkness that...
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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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