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History Brief: the Boston Massacre

This video gives a brief description of the events revolving around the Boston Massacre. http://readingthroughhistory.com/ Everything students need to know about the Boston Massacre! The Boston Massacre. Everything you need to know. -Parliament repeals most of the Townshend Acts -The arrival of British troops causes tensions to rise in Boston -The relationship between Bostonians and Redcoats, as British soldiers were called, deteriorates -British soldiers were not welcome in Boston -Boston had become the most rebellious city in the American colonies -Clashes were consistent and often violent -British soldiers called Bostonians “Yankees” as an insult -British soldiers competed for jobs and ladies in Boston -On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre occurs -Five Bostonians die in the incident -A drunken mob in Boston attacked British soldiers -Crispus Attucks, a mulatto of Native American and African descent, dies in the Boston Massacre -Crispus Attucks and 4 other Bostonians die in the Boston Massacre -Sons of Liberty protests and the Boston Massacre -Lt. Governor Thomas Hutchinson promised to try the soldiers for murder -Paul Revere creates an elaborate print titled “The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street” -The Sons of Liberty use the incident as a powerful piece of propaganda -British troops were withdrawn from the city -Several British soldiers are put on trial for murder -Sam Adams insists that the soldiers be tried for murder -John Adams defends the seven soldiers -John Adams argued that “emotions cannot override facts” and that the soldiers acted in self-defense -The soldiers are found not guilty -Two soldiers had their thumbs branded for killing people in the crowd “by accident” -All of the soldiers had to leave the American colonies for their own protection