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Tensions were rising in Boston as the colonists grew tired of Britain's tight grip on their society, government, and daily lives. They only rose when Britain introduced the Stamp Act in 1765 and the Townshend Act in 1767. The colonists didn’t believe that Britain had the right to tax them because they were not represented in Parliament. When British troops arrived in the colonies, it angered the colonists further because they knew that the troops were there to enforce the unfair taxes and laws stated before. Colonists were constantly throwing insults at soldiers, and the soldiers would throw them back. Eventually the tension reached a peak and on the night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists, who called themselves Patriots protested …show more content…
The colonists were rioting because they were angry about not only the troops, but the taxes as well. James Woodall, another eyewitness, says, “I saw a great many sticks and pieces of sticks and ice thrown at the soldiers,” which lines up with both side’s accounts. There is some confusion about whether the commanding officer of the soldiers commanded them to fire, but John Cole recalls, “I saw the officer after the firing and spoke to the Soldiers and told 'em it was a Cowardly action to kill men at the end of their Bayonets.” One common discrepancy of the Boston Massacre was whether or not the British captain gave the orders to fire on the colonists. Newton Prince was a negro and a member of the south church. Once he heard the alarm bell for fire he rushed out into the street to discover there was no fire but that there was going to be a fight. Prince said that he saw sticks hit the guns of the soldiers and all the while people were shouting, “Fire, damn you fire!” He says, “I have heard no orders given to fire, only the people in general cried

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