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Was the Boston Massacre a massacre or a riot?

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MaggieChao

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it was a massacre and a riot because the boys came and started to make fun of a British red coat and that is a British soldier. the

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I think it was more a massacre because there was fighting involved, and the British soldiers shooting the colonist.

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the Boston Bloodshed

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