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The Boston Massacre: The American Civil War

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Before the Boston massacre we had the Townshend Acts in 1768. Lord Townshend was in charge of raising revenue in a way that wouldn 't upset the colonist. Which in their eyes will be a external tax rather than an internal tax such as the stamp act. They are going to charge for imported and manufactured goods from Great Britain. Such as paper, paint, glass and led. The Massachusetts Bay colony had put together a circular letter for all the other colonies basically trying to get them to boycott Great Britain for being unfair and unconstitutional. The new colonial secretary was ordered by parliament to get the assembly to back off. Then later order for the Massachusetts Governor Francis Bernard to get them to back off. And when that couldn 't be done they sent in the army. And the …show more content…

And now that his ship is gone this will cause havoc and is the beginning of a propaganda war by the colonist and the sons of liberty. Their goal was to try and to get everyone against Great Britain. With all of the rioting and not paying taxes some of the troops are having to back off and go to Castle William Island which was located off of Boston’s shore just for their safety. Because of this the North American Commander for the British Navy General Thomas Gage sent four regiments to Boston to handle it. On March 5th 1770 Private Hugh White is on duty and it was an apprentice in the area Edward G. Private Hugh had been yelling at Captain John Goldfinch who he believed owed money to who he was working for. Private Hugh White left his post and walked up to Captain John Goldfinch and hit him with the bottom of his gun. Many people started approaching the situation such as Henry Knox which will later be George Washington 's secretary of war. The people that had approached had started getting on Private Hugh White for what he had done. “If you fire, you will die for it” ~Henry Knox which was his way of taunting him and putting him in his place because he could be in trouble for what was

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Some of the taxes that were implemented onto the Americans were the Sugar and Stamp act, Navigation act, Wool act, Hat act, the Proclamation of 1763, the Quartering Act, Townshend Acts, and the Coercive Intolerable Acts, (Document Five). Each one of these added more stress on the colonist persuading their final decision of starting a revolution. Not only did the taxes install hatred into the colonist but also events and actions that the British did harmed their cause. Those events included; the boston massacre, the French Indian war, Boston Tea Party, and many more, (Document four) As seen the British lead themselves onto the wrong path by trying to tighten their grip on the colonist but ended up hurting themselves when their actions added more fuel to the Americans fire.

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The Boston Massacre This is Tyair Sallam, reporting live from Boston, in position to inform news upon the Boston "Bloody" Massacre across the colonies. The British had repealed almost all of the Townshend Acts! The repeal of the Townshend Acts brought peace and stability to the colonies, but only temporarily. Colonist newspapers portrays the British as tyrants, "lobster backs", who are willing to kill people who stood up for their rights. Bostonians referred to the British troops stationed there as "lobster backs" due to the red coats they wore.

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Leading up to the Boston Massacre Who knew that a shot fired by British soldiers in the streets of Boston in 1770 would spark the American Revolution? It all started with King George III, who became king of Great Britain and Ireland in 1760. He was only 22 years old. The first war that he participated in was known as the French and Indian War. “When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756.”

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The American Revolution was a time period where there were 13 colonies in America exploring more of the land everyday, The british shared the land with people who are called the pilgrims and ended up soon turning into Patriots and after that Americans. Great Britain started abusing their colonists while there were shootings and many taxes of colonists, many were unfair, and this led to the revolution. This war was between The Patriot/Americans against the British/Loyalists. The revolution happened because a few major events in history took place in Boston others will say it as British Territory.

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This caused the british soldiers to fight back in self defense. There also seems to be more liable evidence supporting that the colonists attacked the soldiers. There were many different accounts of what happened. Means that they are all telling the truth about what they saw.

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The British troops or soldiers presence was unwelcome to the town. The riot began with about 50 of the american colonists, they started shouting and throwing things at the British soldiers. A british sentinel was attacked first. After, Captain Thomas Preston called over soldiers to help the sentinel. They to were attacked, which led to shots being fired into the crowd that ended up killing three american

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The Soldiers did not fire. The Officer then stamped and said Damn your bloods fire be the consequences what it will. Immediately the first Gun was fired.” You may think that this is true, but three people (Theodore Bliss, Jane Whitehouse, and Newtown Prince) testify that they do not recall the captain saying fire to the soldiers. Another argument could be that these are soldiers who killed innocent people in the Boston Massacre.

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The Boston Massacre occurred on March,5,1770 in King Street. It began with friction between two groups: the patriots and the British. A large collection of people threw sticks and snowball at a group of British soldiers. Captain Thomas Preston called in more soldiers to help control the riot. Those extra soldier were hit too.

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I actually didn’t know that Paul Revere was only one of many messengers who alerted the minutemen that the British troops were coming in, I only remember the story of Paul Revere himself warning them, but it again created a good story and would be inspiring. I also wasn’t aware that the Boston Massacre was really an unfortunate mishap, or that Reveres rendition of it that spread in print throughout the colonies, was false and misleading (“Boston, Bloody Boston: The Revolution”). Presenting a martyr figure in Crispus Attucks would also have roused the rebels, it was very clever. That brings me to one of my biggest surprises, just how significant the role of print and propaganda was in its impact on furthering and increasing rebellion, leading

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