his morning, on the 245th anniversary of The Boston Massacre, Queen Elizabeth admitted in a public comment that the English attack that resulted in the death of several americans was “kind of a bad idea.” “We are taking the time to express Our regret for a wrong committed over 200 years ago,” the Queen began. “This week, after seeing a news report about a American revolution remembrance ceremony, We thought to yourself, ‘Man, that was kind of a bad move, We should probably make an expression that acknowledges that.'” The Queen said She used the American slang to make his message more heartfelt and appealing to his US audience, according to a English political analyst. “Really, what were we thinking?…
The Boston Massacre On March 5, 1770 in front of the old state house in Boston Massachusetts a street fight happened between the British troops and the patriots because the Boston men lost their jobs and blamed the British. A street fight broke between the Boston man and the British troops. The British were the first ones to fire.…
First off, this crowd of colonists were not just peacefully protesting. They started off by throwing chunks of what they called “snowballs”, but were actually frozen balls of ice. Not only were they throwing ice balls at the Redcoats, but they were chucking the shells of oysters and lobsters. Additionally, the colonists are at fault because of their harsh language presented to the Redcoats. Some of the colonists…
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.…
The Boston Massacre was the result of the colonists' frustration with British policies after the French and Indian War ended in 1763. They disliked Parliament's active involvement, and hated the presence of British soldiers, who seemed to be policing the colonists. They also resented the numerous attempts at taxation, such as the Sugar Act and Stamp Act, which Parliament tried to impose on them without their consent. When Parliament would not listen to their verbal protests, the expressions of their discontent became violent. Eventually, the Boston Massacre exploded onto the Boston political scene, and brought the colonies closer to revolution.…
Boston Massacre The Boston Massacre was one of the most important events that have ever taken place in Colonial America. It sparked the start of the Revolutionary War, which caused many of those loyal to Britain to rally with those who wanted freedom, and it was considered a turning point for many colonists, to fight the British. Life back then was hard. The colonists had tried to rebel and as a result; the British Parliament passed many acts that negatively affected the colonist’s everyday lives. Some of these acts were the Townshend Acts.…
The citizens of Boston didn't have guns or swords, they had to use rocks in snowballs, and sticks to fight the soldiers back(“The Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770”). In the text, it states that Mr. Samuel Grey was killed on the spot when a snowball entered his head damaging a large portion of his skull. Soldiers showed no mercy and shot an innocent African American citizen causing death to the man(“The Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770”). If that one drunk soldier wouldn't have used his sword on that little boy, it could've prevented a lot of deaths. Otherwise, they were to blame for the incidents just by using a deadly weapon first.…
The American Revolution started because Britain wanted the Americans to pay taxes for war. These Americans did not want to pay and said that Britain is not doing it for American's benefits. Britain decided to impose laws to get money from the colonists, making them dissatisfied. The Boston Massacre was one of the key events to happen due to British tax laws. Was the Boston Massacre truly a massacre despite five colonists being killed?…
The British soldiers were responsible for the Boston Massacre because they used unnecessary means of force and weapons. The colonists were completely unarmed and innocent. They had no weapons on them that was capable of killing any soldier. They also were only nagging at the soldiers and yelling at them, if the soldiers told them to stop they would because the colonists fear the soldiers. The British soldiers fired at the colonists and hit them with their swords.…
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)…
Depictions and reports of abuse by the British towards the colonists throughout the 13 colonies was used to further heighten the tensions throughout the land and act as a rallying point for further protests and resistance14. The desire for self-rule began to take hold and filter throughout all of the colonies. The crumbling relationship between the colonies and their British rulers led to further decent and ultimately to significant changes. In May of 1770, all British troops were forced out of Boston and into the Castle Island, thus temporarily ending the immediate tensions between the citizens of Boston and the representatives of the King.15 The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most important events that turned the colonial settlements against the British Parliamentary Rule16.…
To Whom it May Concern at the Boston Gazette: The colonists are to blame for the Boston Massacre, because they have provoked the British to open fire by forming a mob, through taunts, and by the uncertainty of who was saying fire. First, the colonists have attempted to portray an act of violence without any provocation, which got matters complicated. According to the report of Captain Preston, the colonist “[assembled together] to attack the troops, and [they rang] the bells…as the signal for that purpose and not for fire”. Additionally, someone “ [sounded] the alarm bells, [under the normal routine for] fire. This means that the colonists used a normal sign of warning to gather the people to attack the soldiers, for they used an underhanded technique to catch the soldiers off-guard.…
Causes and Effects of the American Revolution After the French and Indian War, Britain needed money. As a result, the British government placed taxes on the American colonists. The British thought that the colonists should help pay for the war since it had been fought partly to defend the colonies. The first tax was the Stamp Act.…
Was the Boston massacre really a massacre? Or was it something else? Consider if the soldiers were justified or not in firing into the crowd? Did they have sufficient cause to fire into the crowd? Before we answer these questions, we need to know what set the stage for this bloodshed or as history calls it “Boston Massacre.”…
Many accounts regarding The Boston Massacre support Samuel Drowne’s interpretation of this event. Samuel Drowne claims he saw a person on the Custom-House balcony holding something that looked like a gun, moments later he saw the gun flash. After shots were fired, the unknown man went back inside, stooping and Drowne then saw a flash from another window. While the shooting in the house was going on, below soldiers were firing in to the crowd in random directions, killing 5 people. Drowne then goes on to describe how the shooting began, Captain Preston said to the soldiers “Damn our bloods!…