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 …show more content…
In the engraving, Paul Revere added the British organized in their fire with brutal intent. However, in the actual story, the British were being poked and prodded into shooting by all of the colonists that were present. Also, Paul Revere took out the 200 colonists that had been surrounding and tormenting the soldiers. He did this so everyone that wasn’t there could not see that the colonists did anything wrong, but rather that the British fired out of hate for the colonists. The engraving also did not show the colonists that were surrounding the British with any clubs, or with any of them throwing ice. This is also to persuade the other colonies into thinking that the British are