...The Boston Massacre was the name given to the day when the British Army Soldiers killed five civilians and wounded six others. This event happened on March 5, 1770. The critical incident contributed to the downfall of the British regime. This all began after the death of an eleven-year-old boy, Christopher Snyder. Ebenezer Richardson fired at Snyder because the boy and a few others were harassing and tormenting him. The fact that the people believed Richardson would be brought to justice during the court session halted everyone’s plans for retaliation. The Bostonians anger was also fueled by the possible threat of cutting down the “liberty tree.” The British soldiers took position outside a building reassuring that no violence was to occur. Not long after, a mob of civilians stumbled upon them and began calling the soldiers harsh names, throwing snowballs and other objects at them, and treating them with great disrespect. A civilian then threw a club which hit a British soldier causing him to fall to the ground. As he was falling the soldiers gun discharged and moments later the other soldiers began firing their weapon as well. Once again, as the smoke cleared the soldiers could see five civilians dead and other fleeing that have been wounded. The soldiers that committed the crime were sure to be punished, but at the first court trails they were found not guilty. The case was then taken into the hands of the English; there the accused soldiers were found guilty and harshly punished...
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...The Boston Massacre happened in March 5, 1770 during the evening. In the Boston Massacre, British soldiers killed five inhabitants and wounded six inhabitants. Captain Thomas Preston was responsible for the British soldiers which killed five inhabitants. Whether Captain Thomas Preston gave the order “fire” or not is a controversial issue. Although there are lots of witnesses who argued they were sure that he gave the order, there were also lots of witnesses who argued they were sure that he was not gave the “fire” order. Although the evidences not give us a certain idea that Captain Thomas Preston was guilty or not, because the evidences are controversial, evidences strongly suggest that he was not guilty, he presumably did not give the order “fire”. During the 1760s and the first days of the 1770s the tension in the Boston was high because of the Stamp Act and the other new taxes which were going to be applied, known as “Townshend Duties”. “… men such as Samuel Adams were encouraging their fellow Bostonians to be even bolder in their remonstrance.”(Wheeler, Becker & Glover, 84). Because of the inhabitant’s uneasy, the British government ordered some regiments of soldiers in Boston. However, bringing soldiers in the Boston did not bring the peace in the Boston; instead it increased the tension which was already ready to increase. The disputes between the soldiers and inhabitants started slowly, but by bid. There was a reaction to the soldiers as well as to the British sympathizer...
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...The Boston Massacre was an event, which led to the death of five colonists after British soldiers when ordered to fire upon them on March 5th, 1770. Much controversy surrounds the incident, as there seems to be a few different stories of what truly happened. Regardless, many people believe the Boston Massacre was the spark that ignited the Revolutionary War. My efforts will be focused on figuring our what really happened, and what events caused the British officers to shoot into the crowd of colonists. The incident took place on King Street (which is now called State Street today), on an early morning on the 5th of March in front of the British Sentry called Private Hugh White. Edward Gerrish, an apprentice of a wigmakers, began yelling at a British officer, lieutenant John Goldfinch for an unpaid bill. Gerrish left, but eventually came back hours later and began throwing rocks at the lieutenant. Soon, many colonists joined in and threw rocks themselves. At this point, Goldfinch had reached his boiling point, and challenged Gerrish before striking him with his musket. As the evening progressed, the crowd outside the sentry grew larger and larger and continued to harass the British officers. Meanwhile, Captain Thomas Preston overlooked the entire situation as it escalated. He immediately ordered 8 soldiers to help control the situation before it got out of hand. As the soldiers approached, with muskets loaded, the crowd of nearly 400 began to surround the outnumbered officers...
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...The event that took place in Boston on March 5, 1770 was not a massacre. A massacre is considered an attack in which a large number of people are violently slaughtered and killed. On that day, colonists had weapons to defend themselves from the British. It would not be considered a massacre because of their ability to fight back and the fact that only 3 colonists died after the fight. The action on March 5 was just an unfair fight and it does not fall under the category of a massacre. The colonists that fought with the British Redcoats in Boston on March 5 had weapons to help defend themselves. The colonists used clubs and other weapons to harm the British. According to Document 3, Account of the Boston Massacre, “A townsman with a cudgel...
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...The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770. The event took place on King Street, Massachusetts. During this event, the British soldiers ruthlessly murdered five innocent civilians and injured six others. The growing tension between the colonists and the British soldiers was a direct result of the Townshend Acts of 1768. The continuous rivalry between the two progressed into a violent memory in American history. The British soldiers that participated in the Boston Massacre should have been sent to prison because they took it upon themselves to open fire against civilians rather than reason with the defenseless colonists. Therefore the soldiers’ barbaric actions cannot be justified. The British soldiers that took arms against the civilians...
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...Kaitlyn Lott #6 Mr. Robeson Social Studies August 30, 2017 Boston Massacre Source Summary 1. The Captain remembered British soldiers were not welcomed when they arrived in Boston. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Many of the people living in Boston did not like the soldiers at all, only a few were known to be friends of the soldiers. However, Samuel Hemmingway said, “one evening I heard him [Killroy, a British soldier] say, he would never miss an opportunity, when he had one, to fire on the inhabitants[people of Boston], and that he had wanted to have an opportunity ever since he landed.” When a soldier from the 14th regiment was on trial, the Boston judge commented that the soldiers were on their own from now on. The judge also pointed...
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...In colonial America during the late 1700’s revolutionary sympathetic newspapers such as the Boston Gazette printed stories propagandizing the ideals of the patriots with the most incendiary of these being the account of the Boston massacre published on March 12, 1770. Along with this account of the events, we have another from Captain Thomas Preston, who was in charge of the British soldiers during the incident, from his trial. By analyzing these two accounts it is clear that the events that occurred on March 5, 1770, were exaggerated by The Boston Gazette as a form of propaganda to spur revolution rather than an accurate account of the event that took the lives of 5 colonists and injured 6. In the account of events published in the gazette,...
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...Throughout history many mistakes have occurred and the goal is to make sure we keep our mistakes in the past but it never works out that way. The Boston Massacre was one of the first events that sparked the American Revolution. It set the colonies into anarchy and forced them to rebel against The British. A man named George Zimmerman made a fatal mistake when he shot an unarmed 17-year-old African American named Trayvon Martin. Even though the situations are many years apart, they have the same outcomes and have more in common then you believe. On the night of March 5, 1770, a mob of colonists met at the Customs House in Boston and begins harassing the British soldiers that were guarding the building. The protesters called Patriots were...
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...and spread wide over Boston. On the day of the funeral all shops and stores were closed due to the incident that occurred. Thousands of people gathered to remember the five that died. The colonies became a nation working, thinking, and grieving together. It was a crucial step forward for the peoples of the colonies as they began to wonder whether they were truly subjects of such a cruel nation, subjects of their own nation. There were lots and lots of newspapers and articles published each of them were about the soldiers involved in crisis...
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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, also known as the “Incident on King Street,” occurred on March 5, 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts. Before the Boston Massacre occurred, colonists were irate due to the Townshend Acts which was created by the British that put tax on tea, glass, lead, paints, paper goods, and many other common items. These items would be made in Britain and the exported to the colonies; therefore, Britain decided to put a tariff on these items, which included a fee for exporting and trade. The colonists were irate because they were British citizens. The Boston Massacre began with a small argument between British Private Hugh White and a few colonists outside the Custom House in Boston on King Street. The argument escalated, more colonists gathered and began to harass Private Hugh White by throwing sticks and snowballs at him. Colonists continued to increase in numbers until there were over 50 colonists at the scene and soldiers were sent to the Custom House to maintain the argument....
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...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 “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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...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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...On March 5, 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, a fight took place between the British soldiers and the colonists. The started all because of the Quartering Act. The colonists were ordered by King George III to house British soldiers when they were in the colonies. The colonists were, of course, unhappy about this, so they made sure the British felt unwelcome in America. On this fateful day in March, a group of about 30-40 colonists gathered in the town square. The colonists had provoked the British soldiers and that lead to what is now today as the ‘Boston Massacre’. A massacre is the purposeful killing of a group of people, which is more than one person, who are defenseless and not attacking. Did a massacre truly take place on March 5 of 1770; some sources say yes and some say otherwise. Based in the information that was gathered, a massacre did not take place on March 5, 1770 in Boston because both the colonists and the British were armed and attacking was an act self defense, on the British’s behalf....
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