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    Comparison Between Kent State University and Boston Massacre Shootings History doesn’t repeat itself. We are the one who make history ingeminate its past story again and again. I believe that history is the academic discipline which analyze the past events along with the memories and discovery. In the journey of repeating those stories I got chance to study and research about the two most misfortune gun firing in the Kent State University and in the Boston massacre. The shootings were a…

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    lead to the American Revolution. Although the change in British imperial policy involved taxing and placing acts on the colonists to raise debt money, these actions displeased the people and caused them to revolt creating events like the Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party. These factors were of many that brought about the American Revolution. Taxation imposed on the American colonies by the British government created tension that fueled the…

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    I believe that the Boston Massacre was a accident and that it was not meant to happen. One reason i think the boston massacre was an accident is because the colonist were yelling “fire, fire” and by that some of the colonist thought that there captain had said fire and that's why they fired at the colonist. The second reason i thought that the boston massacre was an accident was because when the colonist started throwing clubs and snowballs they hit the soldiers and the soldiers seen that as a…

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    British parliament. The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre led to these new laws. The first act, Boston Port Act was passed on March 31, 1774. With this new law, the ports in Boston were closed. Once all the ruined tea was paid for the ports would open, but until then the ports stayed closed. Closing the ports caused more of an outrage among the colonies. To insure that no one traveled through the ports armed warships created a blockade. British troops filled Boston to patrol the wharfs.…

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    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. John Adams wrote that the, “foundation of American Independence was laid” on the day of the Boston Massacre17. . The ultimate victory of the Boston Massacre was the…

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    in a moments notice eleven colonists were shot and five colonists killed by British soldiers. The British had done it, they had created the Boston Massacre. The increase on taxes and the Quartering Act put in place by the British, made the colonists outraged and that led them to protest against Great Britain. A major action that the colonists took was the Boston Tea Party, this was when the Sons of Liberty disguised themselves as Indians and went on multiple ships to dump out all the tea to…

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    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…

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    Boston Massacre During this period of time, a big event happen in history that caused many emotions and tensions between the British soldiers and the civilians. The Boston Massacre played a very important role as The Revolutionary War in American History. The civilians feared for their lives but also for there colonies. The civilians were tired of all the rules and taxes they had to follow but also feeling that they were getting stepped on. They would start protesting and wanted to be free…

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    Massacres involve many people, yet the Boston Massacre is more of a paradox. The paradox of this involves the use of propaganda which demonstrates this massacre of five deaths into a big idea. This causes the United States to focus and narrow the blame towards Great Britain. This event occurred on the same day the parliament repealed most of the Townshend Acts.These acts were an external tax that charged colonists a tariff for importing manufactured good into the U.S. This caused the colonists…

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    The Boston Massacre and Tea Party: 1767–1774 Events 1767 Townshend Acts power commitments on stock, suspend the New York gathering 1768 British troops include Boston 1770 Parliament disavows all commitments under the Townshend Acts except for obligation on tea Boston Massacre happens 1773 Boston Tea Party happens 1774 Parliament passes Coercive, or Intolerable, Acts Parliament passes Quebec Act Key People Thomas Hutchinson - Governor of Massachusetts in the midst of right on time…

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