Boston Massacre

What happened on March 6th, 1770, is something that never is wished to happened. Some might think the deaths of the five men that night was a murder, others a terrible accident, maybe self defense. This unfortunate event, the Boston Massacre, left Patrick Carr, Samuel Maverick, Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, and James Cardwell dead. Were they in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or were they tormenting the soldiers? The colonists were shouting cruel and horrifying threats. According to Captain…

support for the Revolutionary War, the government mainly targeted the “men” of the nation, white males, to join the fight against Britain. The Boston Massacre, by Paul Revere, successfully conveyed this message. The Boston Massacre generated a spark of support from settlers in New England by purposely leaving out the black man that got killed during the massacre, Crispus Attucks. Revere did not include Attucks in the picture because the American society did not perceive black people as people.…

Was the American Revolution Inevitable? Was the American Revolution inevitable as people today think it was? Some people say that the war was inevitable from the time governors were chosen by the crown. Other people disagree and say that if the crown had been fairer to the colonists, the colonists would not have rebelled, and the American Revolution would not have happened. This paper argues that the American Revolution was inevitable. The American Revolution was inevitable because England kept…

After reading the support material, I can imagine how the people suffered this day (evening on Monday – March 12, 1770) when eleven guns were discharged. The British soldiers were looking to kill people, but Edward Archbald admonished Mr. Merchant to take care of the sword, one soldier turned round and struck Archbald on the arm, and then pushed at Merchant, cut his and grazed the skin. The noise called more people to fight, John Hicks a young lad, help him and around minute twelve of them…

American revolution. WIth major influences such as the tea act and some not so influential parts, but enough to move us towards the actions that got us here. In this book he doesn 't just focus on the main points like other books such as the Boston massacre, the Quartering act, he doesn 't even make a reference to the Declaration of Independence. Knollenberg goes into great detail and depth in the writing to make sure…

what depiction you’d have of the United States if the Revolutionary War never took place. America would still be under Britain’s reign and probably still being unconsciously taxed on everything we on. The Spark of the Revolutionary war was the Boston Massacre which was a pivotal event in our country’s history, which, sparked the Revolution Americans would soon know as the Revolutionary war. It occurred on March 5, 1770. A troop of British soldiers, let loose a cascade of shots on a rowdy…

events of March 5th, 1770. However, these events were not properly, or truthfully, represented by the Patriots. The events of March 5th began to be referred to as the “Bloody Massacre” which was essentially propaganda used to persuade Americans to dislike England and want independence from them. Although the Bloody Massacre and the events of March 5, 1770 should have been the same event, they certainly were not. As shown in the engraving produced by Paul Revere, a group of Britain soldiers are…

“I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat” (Wheatley, 24-25). This line from well-known poem To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, tells the first part of Phillis Wheatley’s remarkable story. Brought to America as a young child, Wheatley became of the first to display African people’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual ability. Though her life was short and sad, it was a testimony of African American talent to the whites of her day…

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…

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. The soldiers had the option to…