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Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre, the death of five civilians on March 5, 1770, helped spark the American Revolutionary War.
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In the list of grievances which one refers to the Boston massacre?
for protecting them, by mock trial, from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states
What event led to the Boston massacre?
LONGTERM: The Townshend Acts, a series of acts passed, beginning in 1767 were the acts that eventually led to the Boston Massacre. Anger over the Townshend Acts led to the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which eventually resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770. SHORT-TERM: The event that led to the Boston Massacre was argument between one British solider and one colonist because the British soldiers knew that they where not welcomed then one British solider and one colonist started arguing and the solider hit the man. So the colonist dared them to shot and the soldiers opened fire in the cloud. that is not true because that is what happened that day and is not an event.
Widespread anger and sporadic rioting following Parliamentâ??s passage of the Stamp and Townshend Acts, resulted in Massachusetts Governor, Francis Bernard asking for military assistance from England. Troops arrived in 1768 with the sole purpose of restoring order and enforcing the collection of taxes. Residents were offended by both the local garrisoning of the British troops in Boston as well as them being allowed to take part time jobs in warehouses, taking jobs away from local unskilled labor. Meanwhile, a boycott of products affected by the Townshend Acts by the Sons of Liberty resulted in a protest outside a merchant they believed was violating the boycott. The situation quickly escalated when about 50 citizens attacked a British sentinel. A British officer, Captain Thomas Preston, called in more soldiers, they were attacked too, so the soldiers fired into the mob, killing 3 on the spot.
How did the Boston Massacre begin?
At the Boston Customs House, a wigmaker's apprentice mistakenly harangued a British officer about an unpaid bill, and was struck by a British sentry, Private Hugh White. A confrontation with White and the other British soldiers grew heated, with as many as 200 colonists gathering. Some colonists taunted and threw items at the soldiers. One sentry was knocked down, and then (without an order) soldiers fired into the growing mob. Five colonists were killed and six wounded.
What act by customs officers began a series of events that led to the Boston massacre'?
what was included in patrick henrys Virginia resolves
Yes, John Adams was a student of the Enlightenment and therefore agreed with Voltaire's saying "I may not agree with you but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (that isn't the exact quote, but you hopefully get the idea). Extend this belief unto actions, and what we have here is John Adams.
How did James Caldwell die during the Boston massacre?
James Caldwell was killed in the Boston Massacre when two bullets fired by British soldiers hit him in the back. It is said he died almost instantly. Little else is known about him other than he was a mate of the Captain Morton vessel.
The soldiers of which nation committed the Mei Li massacre?
Lt. William Callie I think that's the spelling was court marshalled by the US Army as he was the OIC of a group of US Army solgiers who killed a bunch of "civilians" at mei li. As most people now know the war was a confusing one for or US troops as the civilians were our friends in the daylight and at night they sliiped on their black pagamas and became our enemy.
Improvement.
My Lai was the hamlet where Lt. William Calley and 'Charlie Company' killed more than 200 old men, women and children on March 18, 1968. It took them four hours to kill everyone, and that included a break for lunch which they ate within a few yards of a pile of fresh corpses, mostly women and infants. (There was one American casualty, a sergeant who shot himself in the foot). At the time the Americans had declared most of Quang Ngai province a 'free fire zone' and 70 per cent of the villages had been razed. When it was My Lai's turn civilians were being killed at a rate of 50,000 a year. This was known as 'collateral damage'.
Look closely at the famous photograph of the piles of dead in a ditch at My Lai and there is a shadow in the grass to the left. This was Mrs Truong Thai Le, who survived beneath the bodies of her mother, daughter and grandson. She bravely held the photograph and listed for me the others in the ditch who were her family: her brother, aged 30, her nephew, aged one, four nieces, all of them under 10, a total of nine. "It was six o'clock in the morning," she said. "Suddenly this helicopter was manoeuvring above the house, then we saw soldiers come across the fields. They ordered all the families out and told us to march towards the ditch. If we walked too slowly, they prodded us with their guns. We came to an assembly point and huddled together; then they shot us one by one. I saw a little boat and used it to cover my son, and dead bodies fell down on me. I kept telling my son, who was six years old, "Oh, please don't cry. They will hear us if you do". When the Americans had finished and walked away, I waited, then stood up with my boy; I felt I was walking in the sky or somewhere else; I didn't have any kind of feelings. I was covered in blood and pieces of human brain, which smelt terrible. On the way back we had to walk in the field because the pathway was covered with bodies; I saw a mother die here, children there. They even killed the animals like ox and buffaloes. When we got to our home, it was burned down. It was only then I realised a bullet had passed right through me, but I was still alive."
In 1970 John Pilger the award winning journalist went to the US and interviewed seven American soldiers who had taken part in mass murder in Vietnam. None had been charged. Each was adamant that he had been under orders to "kill everyone and everything". "A village was a designated playground," one of them said.
What event happened in Britain in the same year that the Boston massacre took place?
Parliament repeals most of the townshend acts
Which person was killed in the Boston massacre and later became a symbol of the abolitionist?
Crispus Attucks
Why was the Commission on Human Rights significant?
It began a new international focus on equal rights for all.
Why did Samuel Adams label the violence in Boston a massacre?
To make colonists want to fight the British ~APEX~
What were the weapons used in the pinjarra massacre?
the Aboriginals used traditional hunting spears and the Europeans used un known guns.
What was the importance of the Boston masscre?
1) Cocky (Bostonians) + Bullies (soldiers) = The Boston Massacre
2) Ice (frozen snow) + guns = The Boston Massacre
3) The Boston Massacre = King George
False...the Articles of Confederation were not written when the Boston Massacre occured...
How did the colonists react to Boston Massacre?
The colonists especially those who were not in Boston saw Paul Revere's depiction of the event in newspapers. Paul had made his sketch a form of propaganda making the colonists look weak among the British. There is a dog in the picture and that is to try to make us look 'cute'. The drawing aroused emotions of anger.
Who was Pvt Hugh Montgomery of Boston Massacre fame?
He was the soldier that was knocked down and he shouted "Damn you. Fire.", and some of the soldiers fired.
Why was the massacre an important event in the cause for independence?
It made more people support independence.
Who fought in the Boston massacre?
no one fought in it. it was just soldiers with guns and colonist were throwing rocks and sticks at them.
In the Boston massacre the English soldiers and the colonist "fought" in the battle.
