One of the most known events in history to happening Boston . The only event ever to happen like this. The historical event that earned the title of the incident on king street named by the British personally. The one event where British soldiers were ready for an attack and colonists were prepared to strike and defend their opinions the event were you couldn’t imagine it happening in front of you, but could really picture it happening to the colonist and the British. So Today we’re going to be going into a historic event to see what sparked it all , what happened during it ? And what was the aftermath of the event? Today we’re taking a look back in history To Learn about , The Boston Massacre.
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mob protest before, since 1745 protest have been going on everywhere there was the stamp act protest on which to get rid of the punishment of getting your hand permanently stamped for committing a crime, and the townshend protests was about the taxes being raised constantly and british soldiers were placed all around the main tax buildings leading into the Boston Massacre. Riots and protest all around town were getting more and more common. Colonist would attack tax officials and their place of business violently burning and breaking things leaving nothing untouched , causing the british soldiers to be placed everywhere around town, eventually to the point we’re you would see a soldier in front of every important building, and you would not be allowed to enter in large groups unless you we’re going to have a trial in front of a judge, or your accompanied by a body of soldiers, but the colonist still would go and stand outside of buildings and go in front of the soldiers and start protesting ,criticizing the soldiers and their laws and trying to bringing down the british soldiers and make them remove the bad taxes One evening on March 5, 1770 a group soldiers were outside the custom house on king street, when a group of colonist were approaching and starting taunting and protesting the soldiers , this was because the british king raised taxes even higher than before naming this the townshend act the colonists started to yell and attract more colonists and soon started to taunt the soldiers even more causing a bigger commotion.
When the british officer of the wattch the of his ordered more soldiers over to the scene this time they were carrying bayonets . Seeing these weapons only made the colonist angrier and soon the the small argument between the british and the colonist only got bigger. Soon the colonist started to throw snow and ice balls at the soldiers causing them to get angry. One particular snowball hit the soldier private Montgomery and knocked him down from the force that came with it he stood back up and released fire into the crowd and soon after a few seconds of silence other soldiers joined in and when the smoke finally cleared 3 colonist lay dead and two more injured who soon …show more content…
latter were dead from injuries. Soon after the governor of boston Thomas Hutchinson cleared the square of soldiers and colonists leaving the square abandoned. After the accident occurred 8 soldiers were announced of being put in front of the judge for a trial involving murder and manslaughter. The government thought the soldiers should have a fair trial but the soldiers we’re having trouble finding a lawyer to represent them and so John Adams agreed to the job trial and arguing that the soldiers had the right to defend themselves and argued that they were defending themselves because they thought their lives were in peril or although being a patriot himself he thought the soldiers deserved a fair . During the trial six soldiers were found not guilty and two found for manslaughter of Samuel Gray, James Caldwell Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr . After the trial was over there were no more soldiers allowed to be placed anywhere in Boston or any town in Boston and soon they relived some of the taxes although not by much. After The Boston Massacre happened it caused people to look at the British rule in a different way, even though the revolutionary war wouldn’t start for another five years it is thought that the Boston Massacre was the spark of the famous war along with the beginning of the famous boston tea party.
One of the victims were thought to be the greatest hero, his name was Crispus Attucks, a man who was a runaway slave and became a sailor but soon died from a wound from a gunshot. Samuel Adams held a public funeral for The victims who were all, buried side by side at Granary Burying on Trement Street, Boston Massachusetts. Each side used the deaths of one of their men as a reason to make the other side look bad and they would use fake or untrue information about the other side to make them look bad and gain trust from the other
side. The Boston Massacre was one of the worst things that ever happened to boston. I really enjoyed doing the boston massacre and going over the topics of what sparked it, what happened during the event and what was the aftermath of the event, and being able to learn about an event I didn't know about and being able to enjoy it.
Captain Thomas Preston’s vision of the Boston massacre was an incident were a British soldier accidently fired his weapon and his men then followed after resulting in the death of five Bostonians including free black sailor Cripus Attucks. Starting the story Captain Thomas Preston admits that the arrival of the Majesty’s Troops were obnoxious to the inhabitants. Troops have done everything in their power to weaken the regiments by falsely propagating untruths about them. On Monday at 8 o’ clock two soldiers were beaten and townspeople then broke into two meetinghouses and rang the bells. But at 9 o’ clock some troops have informed Captain Thomas Preston that the bell was not ringing to give notice for a fire but to make the troops aware of the attack the towns people were going to bring upon them.
On March 5th, 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts, a soldier rang a town bell that meant there was a fire or that police backup was needed after being approached by Boston residents who were being hostile towards him. In response to the bell being rung, British commanding officer, Thomas Preston, came to the soldier’s aid with armed British troops. Because the bell also meant “fire,” many residents flooded into the area believing a fire was occurring. A mob broke out, and the hostility of the Boston citizens rose. Objects such as ice and rocks were thrown and many citizens were armed with clubs, sticks, and other objects. At one point, an object hit a soldier, causing his gun to go off. Amidst all of the people screaming “fire,” British troops thought that Preston told them to fire.
... to a miscommunication between the Captain and his soldiers. If the crowd had not been in such an uproar the Boston Massacre never would have happened. With all the testimony and the deposition from the Captain, the jury made the correct decision by determining Preston innocent.
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines massacre as “the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty” or “a cruel or wanton murder” (m-w.com). Essentially a massacre results in either the death of many people or death by cruel means. The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts and involved American colonists and British troops. The colonists, upset by recent laws enacted by the British, taunted a smaller group of British soldiers by throwing snowballs at them (Boston Massacre Historical Society). In response, the soldiers fired upon the unarmed colonists leaving five people dead and six wounded (Phelan, 131). Even though the event in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which blood was shed, and called the Boston Massacre, the actions which took place on that day did not constitute a massacre. Since only five people were killed and six wounded and there was no evidence of cruelty, the name Boston Massacre was likely a propaganda ploy by Samuel Adams to rally the colonists against the British instead of a true massacre.
...itish government. In Boston, the site of a bloody confrontation between British redcoats and Americans citizens less than 10 years before, emotions ran high. Boston was a center of agitation and finally on the night of December 16,1773, the course of world history was changed. A revolutionary event was on the horizon. As once patriot mournfully observed, “Our cause is righteous and I have no doubt of final success. But I see our generation, and perhaps out whole land, drown in blood.” (Liberty, 2) The rest is history.
In the summer of 1775, The Americans prepared to attack the British in Boston. But Washington was informed that they were shorthanded on gunpowder. The Americans had fewer than 10,000 pounds, roughly nine rounds per man. The situation was not expected to improve soon. During the night of March 4th, 1776 in Boston. Washington pulled the unthinkable and surprised the British by placing his army up the undefended Dorchester Heights. The British had ships anchored in the Boston Harbor, which were within range of American cannons. The British army woke up the next morning and was amazed to see how much hard work took place that night by the American army. Since the British army was surrounded they had no ot...
in the text it says (Boston gazette 4). One of the boys asked a group of British soldiers. "If they intended to murder people" the British had said “yes, by g-d, root and branch.” not so later one of had struck the young lad leaving a wound on him. The evidence helps prove that the British were trying to hurt the colonists. It proves this because when the boy asked they told him upfront and began to attack him when he was unarmed.
Learning your brother has passed is sad but watching him be murdered is the most traumatic thing a young boy could be put through. Sam had been accused of cattle theft, but it was his own cattle. Tim tried to explain to general Putnam but he refused to listen saying that the execution would show soldiers that they will be punished for their actions and might save civilians lives. They went on with the execution and “shot him so close that his clothes were on fire.he went on jerking with flames on his chest until another soldier shot him again.then he stopped jerking”(208). The patriots killed on of their own to save others. Sam did not do anything and was totally innocent but he did not have enough telling points to prove that he was. It was unfair that instead of somebody that actually committed a crime was not executed as an example. Tim would not want to choose a side where he was not protected by his own people. Being neutral was the best choice for Tim since he was against war overall and did not want to support either
Whitehouse goes on to saying that a soldier got knocked down by a chunk of wood that a man got it from under his coat. Based on most against Preston and some for Preston testimonies like the Benjamin Burdick against testimony, he said that he saw” stick thrown at the Soldiers” not a big chunk of wood that would knock a soldier out. Whitehouse testimony was most likely to distract the jury from the other strong testimonies that were made against Preston, so they might think that there is something that they are misinterpreted from the other testimonies. These testimonies show evidence that Preston ordered his soldiers to fire at people who some of them were innocents who were just there to fulfill their curiosity of the situation to murder them. The Boston Massacre created a new attitude in people that was not there before. It created more hatred toward the British forces living with them and taking their money from them. It also made us understand that the American Revolution is coming because the people will not wait until another massacre to happen to kill more people of their own, they want the British to
On March 5, 1770, an event occurred in Boston, which consisted of British troops shooting upon colonists. People refer to this as a massacre, but they only look at one side of the story. The Boston Massacre in 1770 was not really a massacre, but a mutual riot (Boston Massacre History Society). British soldiers went to America to keep the people of Boston in order. However, the soldier's presence there was not welcomed by the Bostonians and this made things worse (Boston Massacre History Society). The British had to fire their guns because the Bostonians were antagonizing the soldiers, which caused five people to die. The Bostonians made the soldiers feel threatened so in turn they acted in self-defense. The British soldiers and their Captain had to go through a trial, to prove they were not to blame for what had occurred.
Most people have heard of The Boston tea party. When American patriots dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded the British ships in the Boston harbor and dumped all of the tea into the ocean. But what most people fail to realize is the great importance behind this protest. To fully understand a topic of history one must first acknowledge the actions behind it. The French and Indian war, the Stamp Act, the Townshend Revenue Act, as well as the Tea Act are all important catalysts of the legendary Boston tea party. Which is why we will discuss these topics before examining the events of the Boston tea party.
The Boston Massacre was a fundamental event at the beginning of the American Revolution. The massacre became part of anti-British propaganda for Boston activists and fed American fears of the English military in both the North and South. The Boston Massacre was the first “battle” in the Revolutionary War. Although it wasn’t until five years after the Boston Massacre that the Revolutionary War officially began, the Boston Massacre was a forecast of the violent storm to come.
The Americans won the battle when they ambushed the British army and shot them one by one. They won that day even though they lost 75 men, 175 British Soldiers died, and were out of the way for the colonists. This battle proved the colonists could stand up for themselves and fight for what they believed in. The americans winning this battle scared the red coats, as they knew this was the stepping stone to winning the war. It set the mood for the war. Best of all the americans kept all their weapons. This battle ended brutally, but amazing for the colonists.
This was called the Thornton Affair, 11 troopers were killed and the rest were captured. After that, the Mexicans started bombing Fort Brown, the United States sent General Zach Taylor with 2400 men to relieve the fort. Mexican general Mariano Arista with 3400 men rushed out to meet them. When the congress heard the news, they declared American blood has been shed on American soil and they declared war on Mexico.
Throughout history, events are sparked by something, which causes emotions to rise and tensions to come to a breaking point. The Boston Massacre was no exception; America was feeling the pressure of the British and was ready to break away from the rule. However, this separation between these two parties would not come without bloodshed on both sides. The British did not feel the American had the right to separate them from under British rule, but the Americans were tired of their taxes and rules being placed upon them and wanted to succeed from their political tyrants. The Boston Massacre would be the vocal point in what would be recognized, as the Revolutionary War in American history and the first place lives would be lost for the cost of liberty. Even though the lives were lost that day, eight British soldiers were mendaciously accused of murder when it was clearly self-defense. People who are placed in a situation where their lives are threatened have the right to defend themselves. History does not have the right to accuse any one event those history may have considered the enemy guilty when they are fighting for their lives.