How Did The British Want To Fight Against The Boston Massacre

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American colonies resisted British atrocities and exploited the people. The British reduced the American people's power, freedom and peace. So the 13 colonies in North America made protests and joint together to fight the inequality. Colonial patriots (The Committees of Safety) recruited about 30000 soldiers to protect the people; they gave the British Army a heavy blow and showed surprising power, we really did a good job.
After the French and Indian War, the British want American colonies to paid all the war funds, but that is not what we want, right? Colonial people continued to be imposed various exorbitant taxes (Sugar act, stamp act), after the promulgation of those act, colonial people started to protests and demonstrations, protesting against the stamp tax, one of the Committees of Safety member in Parliament sent a letter to the head of the colonial parliament, called for the thirteen colonial people should focus on common interests and common power, to faced those crisis, to protest the Townsend tax law. The women also organized themselves to boycott British goods and published pamphlets; also support the anti British activities.
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When the British Parliament abolished the Townsend tax bill, at the same time the first conflict between British army and the colonial began, the British army shot, killed five people, that is Dayton Boston Massacre, that is why we should fight for our country, fight for the people that sacrificed themselves, we need to fight for our liberty!
Colonies against the stamp act, the boycott of British goods. Colonial women also organized to boycott of British goods, they no longer wear gorgeous imported clothes and drink foreign tea, but use local goods. Colonies have an influential woman called Mercy Otis Warren, she gave herself a male name, wrote political pamphlets, to support the anti British activities, as I see she is a very brave woman.
In order to handle the British Tea inventory the British government monopolized the tea tax, it was a direct protest by colonists in Boston against the Tea Tax that has been imposed by the British government, let the local merchants and farmers life difficult, so the Son of Liberty organization trying to raided British ships and dumped tea into the harbor. The British red army was sent to Boston, to deter militant Adams (the Massachusetts militants leader), in the evening of March 5, 1770. More than 50 people in the Boston unrelenting ridicule the British army and threw sticks and snowball to the British army, the British red army soon falling into confusion and started to shoot the people, killed five people. The British did not learn any lessons in these atrocities, the jury released the British commander, also only gave light punishment to the two soldiers. The Boston Massacre was spread throughout the whole colony. So we need to remember what them done to us, and paid them back In 1771, a British customs ship seized an American smuggling vessel, suffered serious attacks in the evening, the smuggling vessel fled, Henry Adams organization and Communications Commission spread this news to the colonies, and to assist in the drafting of a common policy and action. In 1773 the British East India Co. did not manage well their Co., America market atrophy, was facing bankruptcy.

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