What were the colonists reactions to the military occupation of Boston?

Answer 1

they were kind of upset... but at the same time happy because they got what they wanted to prove to the people that the red coats were mean and bad. but they were also upset because I do not think that they meant for anyone to get hurt.

one man said:

we did not send for you. we will not have you here. we'll get rid of you, we'll drive you away!

Answer 2

A few men who had been active in the Stamp Act crisis, tried to revive anti-British feelings in the colonies. Paul Revere prepared his now famous engraving, even though it did not accurately depict the event; Sam Adams circulated Revere's engraving; and others claimed the British were out to spill American blood. But the agitation failed to bear fruit. Most people seemed to blame the event on the mob of colonists, not the British. John Adams even agreed to represent the British soldiers in court. The jury acquited the defendants, except two, who had their thumb branded, which amounted to a "slap on the wrist" by eighteenth-century standards. British tried to make themselves

Answer 3

The colonists reacted to the Boston Massacre by forming militias and eventually fighting the British in the American Revolution. It is sometimes said that the Massacre was the start of the war.

Answer 4

The Boston Massacre is steeped in myth. For one thing it wasn't the first violent event. In 1765 there were riots against the Stamp Act. In 1766 troops clashed with a group of New York patriots and wounded one with a bayonet. In 1768 a Rhode Island man was killed in an argument with a British naval officer. In January 1770 there was a battle between the redcoats and patriots in NY. Crispus Attucks is a very much a unknown figure. We don't know if he was the first to be killed, if he was black, Indian, or mulatto and why he was there. The story we know is a creation of the propagandists of the Revolution. We do know who started the fight that ended in the deaths of 5 Americans and the wounding of 6 others. It was the Americans. Disturbed over a scuffle that day between a British soldier and rope maker the Americans roamed the city looking for trouble. At 9 PM they found it and armed with clubs attacked a British sentry. The idea that troops shot at a peaceful group of civilians is nothing but Propaganda. The remarkable thing about this is that we still think of the story that was given to us as propaganda and not how well our system of justice worked.

Answer 5

Although the Boston Massacre resulted in the death of only five individuals, hardly the definition of a massacre, the incident was monumentally important to the American revolutionary cause. Propaganda efforts created by pro-revolutionists, such as Paul Revere and his famous oil painting of the event, stirred up heightened tensions among colonists. Their heated, passionate response in defiance of the British Crown was exactly what the patriot supporters needed to fuel a successful revolution.