The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers started shooting at a crowd of rioting townspeople. It inspired colonists to revolt because they were already angry at the British for other reasons such as the Intolerable Acts.
The main participants of the Boston Massacre were a group of British soldiers, known as the "lobsterbacks," and a crowd of colonists. The soldiers were part of the British army stationed in Boston, and the colonists were protesting against British taxation and the presence of troops in their city.
It was an incident on 5 March, 1770. British soldiers shot at american colonists and killed 5 of them. Later it was called a 'massacre' by the Americans to increade hatred against the British.
The Boston Massacre in 1770, where five colonists were killed by British soldiers, was used as propaganda to turn more colonists against the British. This event was portrayed as a brutal attack on innocent civilians, fueling anti-British sentiments and contributing to the growing tensions that led to the American Revolution.
He used the Boston Massacre as a way to make the colonists angry with the British.
To use it as propaganda against the British.
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Colonists were thinking that the British were savage and more rebellions broke out.
Because the British soldiers hated the colonists' guts.
A picture of the Boston massacre would have an angry mob of American colonists protesting against british soldiers. Some colonists would be dead due to the soldiers firing at the crowd.
He used the Boston Massacre as a way to make the colonists angry with the British.