The colonists protested against the Tea Act all over the 13 original colonies. They unloaded tea on the docks of Charleston, South Carolina and let the tea rot. And in New York City and Philadelphia the colonists blocked off the tea ships from landing. So the Sons of Liberty prompted the Boston Tea Party.
If you defended British soldiers who were in the Boston Massacre in court, you are John Adams.
The British taxes on goods created hard feelings between the British and colonists. British soldiers panicked during a protest and caused the Boston Massacre. The British repealed all taxes except the one on tea in an effort to prove to the colonists that they had the power to tax the colonies. The colonists protested and caused the Boston Tea Party.
No, but he was a rich smuggler and sponsored the Son's of Liberty. The colonial smugglers were loosing money because the price of British tea had been LOWERED and this made the cost of the smuggled Dutch tea higher.
He rang the bells for extra money.
Paul Revere made an engraving of the Boston Massacre, portraying it as an unprovoked attack on civilians by British soldiers. It was sued on a flier about the Boston Massacre that was widely distributed throughout the colonies This was pure propaganda and was used to incite discontent and distrust between the colonists and the British troops.
1. The soldiers did not line up in a line.
2. It looks like the guy in the back gave them an order to fire, but he did not.
3. There was not as much blood as it looks like there was.
I think there was a little bit more that was wrong without the engraving, but I'm not sure what.
The Boston Massacre was a famous event in history.We studied the Boston Massacre in class.
What year was the Boston Massacre?
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Because Washington Army of about 10,000 men was outnumbered by the British Army of about 32,000 men.
Furthermore, British Gen. Lord Howe succeeded in outmaneuvering the Americans, mounting a massive attack led by the bulk of his army on the rear of the Patriot's right flank, thus provoking the collapse of Washington Army.
Those who died in the so-called Boston Massacre, in the order in which they are listed on their common grave stone, were:
He used the Boston Massacre as a way to make the colonists angry with the British.
The Boston Massacre was an event that took place on March 5, 1770 where British Armed Troops opened fire on a small mob of Boston citizens who were crowding around the soldiers and threatening them. The soldiers killed five citizens. And the Sons of liberty wanted to make the British look bad so they named it the Boston Massacre.
The British evacuated the city on March 17, 1776, after the patriots had fortified Dorchester Heights.
no one did. The boston Massacre happened in new England not in England. Now if you asked who stopped the British soldiers from massacring british citizens living in north america at the time the answer would be no one. They fired into a crowd.
Crispus Attucks was biracial, sometimes called a 'Black Indian'. Contrary to popular belief Crispus Attucks was not simply black as people in his time and place defined it. Attucks was the product of the union of an African man who was an escaped slave and a woman of the Natick band of the Massachusett, Wampanoag Indians.
By the one drop rule African Americans claim him as black.
By the rules of matrilineal descent that the Indians of that region used, Attucks would be considered an Indian because he was the son of one of their women.