Crispus Attucks

But one named Crispus Attucks is most remembered of these in history partly because of the fact that he was the first casualty of the Boston Massacre. The main thing that makes him most memorable is that it is said that he started the event and ironically was an African-American…

Boston Massacre Massacre: an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people; deliberately and violently kill (large number of people) The amount of troops populating Boston became too much for the citizens to handle. Their privacy was being stolen, as were their basic human rights. People grew frustrated and decided that it was time to ridicule the soldiers in a mob to make things better. But, later that night the tables turned for the worse in an act that will mark America´s history forever.…

1770. The colonists used it as propaganda. The Boston massacre only lasted about twenty minutes. Shortly after the Boston massacre the Boston tea party took place. There were five people that were killed in the Boston Massacre. One victim was, Crispus Attucks. He was a dock worker who was killed instantly when the british fired their guns. Another victim was, Samuel Gray. Samuel Gray, a worker at the rope walk were the fighting started, was also killed instantly. The third victim was, James…

protesting got out of control. What was a snowball fight between the Bostonians and British quickly turned into a deadly confrontation leaving five Bostonians dead. One of the victims of the Boston Massacre was Crispus Attucks, who was a sailor of mixed of mixed race ancestry. In time, Attucks would be known as the “first martyr of the American Revolution.” Thanks to John Adams, only two of the British soldiers were convicted of manslaughter while the other seven were found not guilty. Paul…

as if they were fighting for the same reason the soldiers of the revolution fought England. There was a reverence of Crispus Attucks, notably the first man to be killed during the Revolution at the Boston Massacre. Bostonian activists were able to tap into this root heritage and use it to their advantage. Their arguments became ever more powerful the more they pointed out that Attucks died for rights he did not have, and was not given at the founding of the nation, because of his race. These…

thirteen colonies. The relation between the colonists and the British was tense, as expected, insults were often passed back and forth between the two parties. But the most violent exchange was the Boston Massacre which left the freed black man Crispus Attucks, and three other men, including Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, and Samuel Maverick dead. Against many of the colonists’ wishes, the British officials were given a fair trial, however, everybody had different opinions on who was the aggressor…

On March 5, 1770, in Boston, Massachusetts, there was a shooting of five colonists by seven British soldiers and their leader, Captain Preston. The five colonists that were killed were Crispus Attucks, Samuel Gray, James Caldwell, Samuel Maverick, and Patrick Carr. It started when one winter night, a few of Prestons men were getting ice balls and snowballs thrown at them. Colonists were daring those soldiers to shoot and were calling them dirty lobsterbacks. Some colonists were even grabbing at…

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Why We Can't Wait describes the hardships and injustices African Americans endured in the 1960s. During this period of time, they suffered spiteful acts of discrimination. The introduction to King's book uses the rhetorical devices of pathos, logos, rhetorical questions, imagery, and parallelism. Creating a sense of empathy and promoting social change are King's motives for utilizing these rhetorical strategies. The passage can be divided into three distinct sections…

It was 1775 and the American Revolution had just started all the Soldiers were cold and hungry. At the beginning of the war the Americans were considered the underdogs, all the people thought that the British were going to win the war. Why because yes the British army was bigger than the Continental army, and people also thought that the British would win because the British army was well-organized and well-run. The British approach was to try to destroy Washington’s army in Boston, and get…

African American history is the story of great tragedy and accomplishment. Where they were once was kings and queens Africans were taken from their homeland as slaves to work in the dirt. They were treated cruelly and unjustly. However, they would fight ultimately for their freedom looking to having some sort of freedom whether in their homeland of Africa or this new land of America. Some call Africa the birth place of human beings seeing that The Great Rift Valley is known for having some of…