Boston Massacre

He used the Boston Massacre as a way to make the colonists angry with the British.

the public grew distrustful of the johnson administration

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March 5, 1770 is the date of the Boston Massacre.

After the colonials had fortified Dorchester Heights to the South, the British were compelled to evauate the city.

Samuel Adams is the leader of the anti-British group in Boston. He is one of the first people to urge revolt against Britain.

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1. Samuel Adams was the one who did this.

In the Revolutionary War battles both sides were armed and trying to take or hold positions. In the so-called Boston Massacre, on the British troops were armed. The crowd threatened them was not armed with more than snowballs, but the troops felt threatened and were backed into a corner.

Hundreds died and more were wounded on both sides during most battles of the Revolution. At the Boston Massacre only five of the mob were killed and no British troops were wounded

the war reasonly begin in because most of the fault was from the boston tea party when the colonists refused british tea and the british were furious

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They were not happy campers. It had been a rough day. First, they landed in water so their boots got wet and as they marched they got blisters. Next, they had on wool red uniforms. The weather was a hot day so the wool was uncomfortable and the red color made them targets. They were also getting shot at from behind trees and fences. This, they considered to be wrong because an army would line up and shoot at each other. The colonial men hiding was considered to be bad behavior. The soliders also saw men they knew wounded and dead. By the time they arrived that late afternoon in Boston they were in terrible shape.

The famous engraving of the Boston Massacre was created by Paul Revere. Two other men, Henry Pelham and Jonathan Muliken also created drawings of the event.

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Eleven people were hit during the Boston Massacre. Ropemaker Samuel Gray, mariner James Caldwell, and a mixed race sailor named Crispus Attucks were killed instantly. Seventeen-year-old Samuel Maverick, died in the early morning of the next day, whilst thirty-year-old Irish immigrant Patrick Carr died two weeks later.

Crispus Attucks was the first person killed at the Boston Massacre. He is also said to be the first death of the American Revolution.

the purpose of the Boston massacre was that the people in Boston didn't want the british in their "city", and that is what led up to the Boston massacre

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Conflicts between the British and the colonists had been on the rise because the British government had been trying to increase control over the colonies and raise taxes at the same time. The event in Boston helped to unite the colonies against Britain. What started as a minor fight became a turning point in the beginnings of the American Revolution. The Boston Massacre helped spark the colonists' desire for American independence, while the dead rioters became martyrs for liberty.

Boston Massacre.

The outcome of the Boston massacre was that it later lead to the Revolutionary war, and then the Boston tea party.