The Boston Massacre Research Paper

The American Revolution was a long hard fought war for freedom and liberty, which brought The United States of America together in an individual way. The taxation in England was becoming unbearable, as was the lack of colonial representation. King George began to tax the colonies for a war they had not been directly involved with, much less volunteered too. This war was the French-Indian War, and it brought England into a debt that were not prepared for. England began to tax the colonies, who had no voice within parliament, with an extreme multitude. King George III put The Sugar Act and The Stamp Act into action, and within the next year they both were repealed due to boycotting and the colonists ignoring the taxes. Boston was the root of …show more content…
Shots were fired, lives were lost, and another leg of the American Revolution began. The Boston Massacre caused the tension within the colonies between the Americans and the British that were stationed in Boston to escalate quickly. The Boston Massacre was a predictable event that was bound to happen, considering that anyone under a mistreating power will respond in a violent manner sooner or later. King George III was becoming increasingly irritated with the colonists response to the taxes that he was imposing, and repealing over and over again. The King began to treat the colonists like they were property and He owned them.(Boston Massacre Historical Society, 2) The colonists never responded to the taxes, but when the Declaratory Act was put into motion at the same time The Stamp Act was repealed, the feeling was bitter sweet considering that the repeal of The Stamp Act was a major political victory for the colonists in the economic battle that was ongoing at the time. Yet The Declaratory Act