...The Boston Massacre was a very tragic event that happened on March 5, 1770. It is a very important part of our history today. The Boston massacre was about the colonists and british throwing and firing things at each other, because the colonists started the event by breaking away from England and throwing objects at the British soldiers, and the British soldiers took it seriously and thought that they were declared to fight back. I think that the Boston Massacre happened as an accident. I believe this because the Boston soldiers were probably thinking the colonists were being cruel and wanting to actually start a war. One of the reasons that makes me believe that the Boston massacre was an accident is because the british soldiers thought that when they heard “Fire! Fire! Fire!” it was their captain and so they started firing guns and throwing snowballs like it says in one of the sources. Also the colonists had no idea that the british soldiers would fire guns and throw snowballs back at them or they never would’ve thrown sticks, rocks, snowballs ,or clubs at the British soldiers in the first place. I think the colonists got killed by an accident because the British soldiers used their instincts and fought back at the colonists before the colonists killed them before they...
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...The Boston Massacre is known as the murdering of five American colonists by British soldiers. The exact cause of the Boston Massacre is unknown. Most commonly, it is said that the colonists were tormenting the soldiers that were simply trying to do their job.The colonists were said to be unarmed but they still had sticks and snowballs they were using as weapons. They were also yelling rude comments and daring the soldiers to fire. The colonists provoked the British soldiers to open fire on them. The colonists were basically asking to be shot at by yelling fire in a midst of a large group of soldiers with loaded guns, who were just waiting to hear that word come from their captain. Colonists also provoked the soldiers by hitting them with sticks and...
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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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...Boston Massacre Table of Contents -How the gruesome event started and what happened -The nasty British soldiers perspective and the colonists perspective - The confusion before the Boston Massacre trials Introduction Think, why did the British do this, just why? "Stop, stop, now," the colonists shouted! "Fire, pop, pop, pop,'' goes the British Soldier's muskets. ''AAAAAHHHHHHH,'' the colonists scream! When you're in the streets and men fall to the ground dead! Another man, another, another, another!!! Blood everywhere, what would you do?!? The deadly Massacre from start to finish. The British compared to the colonists, two totally different perspectives. Three weeks after the Bloody Massacre, there were trials. The trials were long!! What happened to the soldiers, might you ask? The Boston Massacre was one very, very gruesome event!! How The Gruesome event started and what happened...
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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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...The Boston Massacre was a horrifying event that took place on March 5, 1770, killing 5 people 2 on accident, and 3 died on the spot. The causes of the Boston Massacre in 1770 were to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation, an angry mob of American colonists gathering and taunting British soldiers, and the British reaction. The British weren’t welcomed at all that’s when the riot began. Fifty citizens attacked a British sentinel, objects were thrown and weapons were fired. Patriot mobs threw snowballs, stones, and sticks. Several colonists were injured or killed on the scene because of the British and this led to one of the biggest wars in American history. In this essay it will show why the colonist was horrified by the reaction of the British in the Boston massacre. Before the Boston massacre October 1768 the British had been billeted after repeated request from officials who had been harassed and imitated because their effort to enforce unpopular taxation or Townshend acts. The Townshend act caused problems because they were expected to impose duties and taxes on paper, lead, paints, and tea imported to colonies. The Boston massacre killed 5...
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...Morgan McCarty Social Studies 3/28/18 Conflict Essay An enduring issue is a problem that exists over time that people must deal with in order to survive. An example, of an enduring issue, is conflict. Conflict is defined as is the result of competing desires or the presence of obstacles that need to be overcome: or a disagreement between two or more parties. Conflict is a huge part of life, it is something that has been going on for centuries. In 1770 there was a fight between colonists and British soldiers. During the Constitutional Convention, 1787, disagreement spread amongst the delegates. In 1791 anger and violence broke out. So from 1770- 1791, there were three major disputes, although not all physical. The conflict...
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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 colonist were justified in going to war against Britain for their freedom. Although the British and Colonist are both faulty in their actions against each other, the colonist deserved their freedom. The colonist proved their need to be independent through the Bloody Massacre, the Quartering Act, the Tea Act, the Stamp Act, and finally the Intolerable Acts.These Acts proved that the colonist earned their right to go to war because they were ruled unfairly by Britain. The Stamp Act acted like the first domino to fall in making the colonist realize they needed their freedom.The Stamp Act wasn’t the first act that required colonist to pay taxes but it was the first Act that taxed colonist directly. The problem wasn’t the money. By all means, the British people were paying more than ten times what the colonist were required to pay. The problem was the fact that the British were trying to control the colonist who in the past had made their own decisions for themselves. The Stamp Act placed duties on paper items. Every Time the colonist bought a piece of paper on any paper items they would have to pay for an official stamp.Although this act wasn’t much, the colonist were truly angered. In 1773,the Tea Act was passed. The colonist...
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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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...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 violent encounter between the Rebels and the British Army in the midst of the Revolutionary War, that historians have debated since battle broke out; massacre or unfortunate encounter? I have been lead to believe that the British shat first, but only by an accidental firing or a miscommunication between Captain Preston and the soldier. Both sources A and D support my statement, and while Source A may be biased, Source D is not. Source A says, from the word of Captain Preston, “The mob still increased and were most outrageous, striking their clubs or bludgeons one another, and calling out, come on you rascals, you bloody backs, fire if you dare, G-d damn you fire and be damned, we know you dare not, and much more such language was used.” If the crowd had been yelling at them to fire, it would have been easy to misunderstand amongst the confusion, although both claim Captain Preston did not say to fire. In Source D, Newton Prince also states that there was a mob calling for them to fire. There is also evidence from those sources to show the mob was also violent. In Source D, James Woodall said, “I saw a great many...
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...Regarding the Boston Massacre in 1770, a mob of colonists, some drunk and some not, surrounded a group of eight British soldiers. A fight broke out, and five colonists died. Many present at that night in the mob claimed that it was murder, how soldiers sent to protect them had killed their people. However, this is not the case. The so called “Boston Massacre” is not a massacre at all, in fact, it was an act of self defense. The soldiers were surrounded by a mob of colonists who were hitting them with sticks, taunting them, and threatening them. The soldiers were surrounded, eight people to the mob of approximately four hundred. The colonists had begun pelting the troops with snowballs and hitting them with sticks and clubs. There...
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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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