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    clubbed to the ground. The shot was than followed by multiple others. Again according to the Captain Thomas Preston he was trying to have the the soldiers cease fire but was clubbed to the ground. Finally the fire cease and the smoke cleared, five colonists were dead and three were injured and this is what ended up being the Boston Massacre. Aloth very sad and irresponsible on the British soldered side, was the Boston Massacre really a massacre? A massacre is defined as (Incred massacre definition). There was a really low loss of life and the colonists were armed, not a much as the soldiers but clubs are a…

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    School shootings are something that we know about, in Canadian history they are something we aren 't oblivious to. The Montreal Massacre significantly affected Canada in terms of equality, justice and safety. Numerous individuals had differentiating perspectives on the massacre that took place. Many questions were raised: Why did Marc Lépine shoot and murder fourteen women, while leaving the men alive? Why was Lépine yelling "You’re all feminists?", yet shooting at women who guaranteed they…

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    The Boston Massacre The Boston massacre was a significant event that didn’t happen until March 5, 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…

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    The Boston Massacre March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired upon a mob of rowdy crowd of colonists. This event, officially named the Boston Massacre, killed 5 colonists. The British soldiers not only fired without order, but fired without order on an unarmed crowd, unless you consider stones and snowballs ‘armed’. The British fired without order from a captain, or a commander. In fact, their Captain, Thomas Preston was not on sight when the attack occurred and had to travel to the section of…

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    Boston massacre The Boston massacre was a famous shooting that started because of a small argument, also it started a famous pre-revolutionary war. “On the evening of Monday, March 5th, some soldiers were seen parading through the streets and waving swords and rifles. They were hurting some of the people in Boston.” How did the Boston massacre impact the colonists and the United States? This paper will cover how the Boston Massacre started, the…

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    Obedience To Authority Obedience basically means compliance with an order, request, or law or submission to another's authority. Following the orders of authority blindly can have many negative effects. My Lai Massacre, Jonestown Massacre, Millgram Experiment and Nanking Massacre are some incidents that have caused negative consequences as a result of obedience to authority. My Lai Massacre took place in 1968. On the morning of March 16, 1968, soldiers of Charlie company, arrived in the hamlet…

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    Sioux Indians at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. According to eyewitness to history, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, the Cavalry’s mission was to arrest the Miniconjou Lakota’s chief, Big Foot, and disarm his warriors, because of their involvement in the Ghost Dance Movement. The conflict quickly arose, as a result of the tension that had been building up between the two sides for the past few months. During a search for weapons among the Sioux people, one shot was fired,…

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    One of the most known events in history to happen in Boston . The only event ever to happen like this. The one historical event that earned the title of the incident on king street named by the British personally. The one event where British soldiers were ready too fire and attack while the opposing side the colonists, were prepared to strike and defend their beloved town and keep it the way they intended to have it from the veary begining. The event where you would be terrified imagine it…

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    The Boston Massacre was a violent conflict that occurred on 5th of March 1770 before the start of the American Revolution in Boston, Massachusetts. During the evening hours of that day, a fight broke between British Soldiers and colonial residents at the Customs House on King Street. Due to the tension created by the resentful riot in Boston, British soldiers fired shots at the rioting mob, and as a result, several people were wounded and consequently leading to the death of five American…

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    Something that could change the United States forever. A leading story, the Boston Massacre is what they are calling it. We have just heard that five people have been killed, including British Soldiers and colonists. The things leading up to, this is the taxes that British put on us. “They felt it was a violation of their rights.” The British shot the first shot, they didn’t guns, they shot snowballs and other small things. We only started firing back because they hit one of our people. …

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