Boston Massacre

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The colonists started to throw rocks and snowballs at the soldier who was on duty that night and the soldier called for backup.

John Adams

It is very bloody and scary

The fable of Revere comes from a Longfellow poem written in 1861 and in reality he didn't ride through the night yelling about the British coming. Longfellow wrote his poem on the eve of the civil war to remind people of the nation's history. Somehow the poem became part of history and was put into history books as fact. Revere never finished the ride, his horse was taken away and he was held by a British patrol, but thanks to Longfellow we all know who he is. He billed Congress for the ride and the cost of the horse since it was taken from him and it didn't belong to him. It was borrowed from Rev. John Larkin and was named Brown Beauty. Larkin refers to it in his will. His one big contribution was the picture on a flier after the Boston Massacre showing colonist getting shot by the British. This was pure propaganda and was used to incite discontent between the colonist and the British troops. The true facts of the event are much different than what he drew.

The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770. thats when it started

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.

Yes. You learn this in the 5th or 7th grade. The people who were protesting were throwing rocks and snowballs at the soldiers, protesting against the tax. The soldiers were supposed to shoot over their heads', but they didn't hear the general's command. So basically, yes, if they didn't throw stuff, they wouldn't be dead.

from O.Fr. macacre, macecle "slaughterhouse, butchery," perhaps from L. macellum "provisions store, butcher shop.

Paul Revere died in his home in Boston, Massachusetts on May 10, 1818 at the age of 83.

Christopher (Crispus) Attucks, African-American sailor who was the first to fall. Attucks' past remains mysterious, but he likely escaped slavery around 1750 and spent the next twenty years working whaling ships. The only victim of the Boston Massacre whose name became widely known, Crispus Attucks was memorialized as the first hero of the American Revolution.

The patriots rebeled against kind George the second man hoph because of all of the rules he set. As in the sugar act stamp act , currency act, etc. He was very selfish and rude. He laid way to many laws and taxed way too many things.

Revere drew handbills showing the troops shooting colonist, but Adams had nothing to do with it. He was the lawyer for the troops who were put on trial for the event.

American soldiers pointed cannons with no ammo at the fleet of British ships. The Brittish fleet got scared and left

Begun to make laws against it and send over more soldiers

During the American Revolutionary Period, the Boston Massacre added to the growing tensions between the Colonies and their British overseers in a dramatically tangible and also emotional way. The physical deaths of five colonists in March of 1770 were labeled as atrocities by many Americans; the nation as a whole was led into further thinking (and even activism) concerning the possibility of breaking British rule once and for all.

"A large number" of deaths by killing under artocious means (if any killing can be said to be other than that) constitutes a massacre. There is no specified number, but "the more, the better" as regards being able to apply the term masacre and being correct. It's kinda like the number "zillion" that we sometimes use, which has no specified magnitude. It's "a lot" and that's it. Use the link below to read more.

The officer and eight soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were defended in court by John Adams and Josiah Quincy II, assisted by Sampson Salter Blowers and Paul Revere.

The officer and six soldiers were acquitted (found not guilty) and two were found guilty of manslaughter. The two convicted were sentenced to death but invoked a procedure called "benefit of clergy" which allowed reduced sentences for first time offenders. Their sentence was reduced to branding their thumbs in open court.

Four civilians were also tried and acquitted. The principle witness against them was convicted of perjury, whipped, and banished from the Province.

The Boston Massacre had effects on both sides. The colonists though it was the British's fault while the British thought it was the colonists' fault. The trail did not help at all. The British soldiers that were tried got off with minimum punishment. Only two British soldiers were punished by being branded the letter M, for murderer, on their thumbs. This helped spark the American Revolution due to the reactions of the colonists. The results of the court fuled the anger that led to events after, like the Boston Tea Party.

It was a minor incident that was exploited to paint the British as violent oppressors, a simple propoganda ploy.

The Boston Massacre was a mob of colonists provocing British soldiers because of the ridiculous taxes being forced on the colonies, but it was never meant to paint the British in a bad light; they did that themselves. And it realy doesn't matter if it was an attempt to make them look bad because they only shot five colonists.

Crispus Attucks was the only black man to die because of the Boston Massacre.

King George III thought that the Boston massacre was pointless and could have been prevented. He thought that it was useless also it was a waste of time if the colonist weren't mad at his solders wouldn't have attacked.

The word Massacre means fight.

Some colonists were throwing snowballs with sticks in them at the soldiers. One of the soldiers slipped and accidentally fired his gun. In confusion the other soldiers began to shoot at the colonists and killed 5 and injured 6.