On March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts, there was a shooting of five colonists by seven British soldiers and their leader, Captain Preston. The five colonists that were killed were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr. It started when one winter night, a few of Prestons men were getting ice balls and snowballs thrown at them. Colonists were daring those soldiers to shoot and were calling them dirty lobsterbacks. Some colonists were even grabbing at the soldier's uniforms and trying to pull the guns at out of their hands.…
British forces sent six other soldiers to aid the original, and at one point, a soldier fired. Six colonists were badly wounded, and five were dead- and British soldiers were to blame for the tragic events of the massacre.…
The Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre happened on March 5, 1770 when British soldiers opened fire on civilians. The massacre, as dubbed by Samuel Adams, began when colonists of the rougher kind threw snow-covered rocks at British soldiers in front of the courthouse. At that point, the soldiers opened fire. Because they had been directly assaulted, the soldiers believed they had the right to retaliate against the colonists. After the order to fire, they fired into the crowd, killing Crispus Attucks, a slave who had run away and become a sailor, and four other colonists.…
They created many quarrels and it is rumored that they fired loaded muskets into public streets putting peaceable citizens in harms way. Without a doubt the British soldiers were not sent to benefit the town and have made no effort to conserve the peace. The tense atmosphere in Boston was growing more and more strained until it…
Chester Arthur, the 21st U.S. president, took office after the demise of President James Garfield. As president from 1881 to 1885, Arthur upheld for common administration change. A Vermont local, he wound up plainly dynamic in Republican legislative issues in the 1850s as a New York City attorney. In 1871, a period of political machines and support, Arthur was named to the effective position of traditions authority for the Port of New York. He later was expelled from the activity by President Rutherford Hayes trying to change the corruption.…
Not only were people being pushed with bayonets, they were also attacked by bayonets. The people who were attacked had their backs to the soldiers and did not provoke them at all. During all of this chaos, Captain Preston, the officer on guard, was said to have been the person who ordered them to fire. 10-12 guns were fired that night resulting in the deaths of five people and injuries of six (Kallen 204, 205). The soldiers should have been imprisoned because they not only killed a person, but they attacked and harassed the colonists when they had nothing to defend themselves with, not only during the massacre, but on a daily basis.…
2. Joseph Antonio Emidy was born in West Africa in a country called Guinea in 1775. In the late 18th century Guinea was a popular docking port in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. As a child Joseph taken from his home and forced to be a slave in Brazil. At that time Brazil was the hub of various cultures from different countries such as Portugal, Africa and various indigenous people.…
The Boston Massacre was on the fifth of March seventeen- seventy, where sentry Hugh White was standing outside of the House of Commons. Colonist, Edward Garrick, saw him and attacked by, “ insulting private White, saying among other things, that his company commander was a cheat and did not pay him for a wig” (N.A. Hardly a Massacre- British View, www.boston massacre.net). When Garrick started making a scene, a crowd drew in. Captain Preston of the British army came and tried to appease the mob, but to no avail.…
The Quartering Act required colonists to provide housing for British troops which was uncomfortable for the colonists because they did not want Redcoats in their homes. On March 5, 1770, a crowd of townspeople were protesting Britain’s actions regarding the colonies. They attacked ten redcoats who opened fired on them killing or wounding eleven colonists. The Boston Massacre was proof of how unhappy the colonists were and the dangerous results it could lead to, yet Britain did not take the hint. In April 1775, a British commander in Boston sent troops to Lexington to seize colonial gunpowder and to capture the rebel colonists, Samuel Adams and John Hancock.…
This was one of the first signs of the British being violent towards the Colonists. The massacre occurred on March 5th, 1770 outside the Boston Customs House. Protesters…
Lyles 1Kayla LylesMr. NewellResearch paperMay 15 2016Bostonian ReliabilityWhen researching many sources written about the Boston massacre, there were severalauthors who issued articles about the Boston Massacre, particularly journals, letter andreferences. Some authors categorized the Boston massacre by its context in history by examiningit by the people who were involved in the important event. However, while the authors talk aboutjournals, letters and references, there really wasn’t much discussion about other important part ofthe Boston Massacre: who really caused it. The goal in this research paper is this BostonMassacre debate is by explaining how it was the colonist fault for causing the Boston massacrebecause they resulted in the…
However what was initially a march for rights turned into a blood bath when soldiers opened fire into the unarmed crown and started shooting at innocent people. The soldiers were believed to be aiming for the fleeing crowds and those trying to help the wounded. Seventeen people were wounded and thirteen were shot dead. Of the deceased, all were male and between the ages of seventeen and forty one.…
It was cold and ordinary evening on March 5, 1770, when I was walking down King street with my friend Henry. As were walking past the Custom House a young wig maker's apprentice walked up to a British soldier and insulted him because he had not payed for a wig. Another British soldier had walked out and scolded the young boy for disrespecting a British soldier. The boy exchanged insults with the soldier so he pulled out his musket and struck the boy on the side of the head. A stream of chills rushed through my body when I witnessed that.…
The British were on their way to destroy a Colonial weapon stockpile. The next morning on the 19th, seven hundred British soldiers marched in Lexington and were met by seventy-seven Militiamen. A shot rang out and the battle began. The Militiamen dispersed while the British marched onward towards Concord. When the British reached concord they burned whatever the Colonists had left there.…
As American’s, we have freedom of speech, press, right to bear arms, protection against unreasonable searches and seizures, and freedom of religion, just to name a few. These are understood to be civil liberties for United States citizens. In 1770, and the years leading to the Boston Massacre, these liberties were not in the picture for the government or the individuals. In this point in history, the thirteen colonies had settled in America, and the British parliament decided to inflict new taxes and rules to these colonist to try and pay for the war that just ended. The Boston Massacre was a result of mistreatment to the colonist by British parliament.…