Boston Massacre Dbq Analysis

Matthew Richer’s article “Busing’s Boston Massacre” discusses the issue of the forced busing of schoolchildren to other schools in order for racial integration in the 1970s. Matthew Richer is a Boston native and was a graduate student in the 1990s when he wrote this article. Written to the generation after the busing incident, the article persuades readers to disagree with forced busing and inform them about the costly and detrimental effects that forced busing gave to Boston communities. Forced busing was utilized in order to desegregate schools and help boost black student achievement. Yet, the initial intent that Massachusetts had for Boston’s students failed and resulted in a plethora of other problems. The state intervention of busing

LEXINGTON and CONCORD, MA- In yesterday’s early hours, a force of British regulars, commanded by General Thomas Gage, marched out of Boston searching for a weapons cache in the town of Concord. These troops met a little resistance in Lexington on their way through. When getting to Concord, the Royal Forces found few arms, but found a force of Minutemen awaiting them. These Minutemen chased the regulars all the way back to Boston, all while the Minutemen’s numbers steadily grew. The Minutemen had been warned of the surprise raid by the efforts of three riders that had set out from Boston ahead of the regulars. This was instrumental in the Minutemen’s victory because the regulars were not expecting that anyone would have enough time to organize resistance since this was supposed to be a surprise raid.

Why or why not? He’s just trying to get Preston in trouble with the court so that way they can win the war.

A man from the crowd threw a club hitting a soldier, immediately a shot was fired followed by a pause of about six seconds. Which in turn was followed by a round of shots Several men were wounded. The victims or the Boston Massacre Were Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell and Crispus Attucks, who died immediately. Patrick Carr was wounded and died 9 days later.

He took his political beliefs of liberty and equality and then deliberately help spread anti-British sentiments throughout the colonies. Revere’s engraving was masked in inaccuracies however the patriot justified the engraved representation since it for a worthy cause and helped unite the colonial opposition. The engraving quickly spread throughout the colonies and increased the hostility towards Britain that many colonists felt. Anyone looking at the engraving can see numerous elements that show the British as the aggressor and the colonists were just victims of a senseless tragedy brought on by tyrants. Revere depicted the soldiers as menacing figures by the facial expressions shown and one soldier is even shown enjoying the event because he is visibly smiling.

The American Colonists felt the need to declare independence from Britain due to many events. Britain did not always enforce laws or regulations on the colonies. However, they began imposing unfair taxes on the colonists which sparked anger. This is what brought out the Stamp Act in 1765. The colonists were more angry when the British military fired at a crowd of colonists killing 5 and injuring 6, known as the Boston Massacre.

It was April 19, 1775 when the Bennets found out that the british were at war with the 13 colonies. The Boston Massacre had happened prior to the war and now the colonies decided to do something about it.

On March 5, 1770, an gory event happened, which killed Crispus Attucks, and three other people. As stated in document 4, the engraving, entitled “Bloody Massacre, “ by Paul Revere, is a drawing of how the redcoats kills the colonists without hesitation and the drawing almost represents how the redcoats are treating the colonists like animals. This engraving is extremely important because it show how menacing the redcoats are and how this event triggers the colonists to revenge those that died. With all of the acts and this bloody event, the colonists basically have to fight back or else these events will keep happening, and everything will go into

The Boston Massacre took place on March 5, 1770, where and British soldiers were involved in an incident that took 5 lives. This event was a push in the minds of colonists to rebel against the British. Even before this, many colonists were defying unjust British laws. Being heavily taxed without a say in Parliament created tension between the two groups. Because of this, a group of colonists formed a secret organization called the Sons of Liberty. Their purpose was to fight against British taxation and to protect their own rights. Of these brave people, out came a silversmith and Patriot leader, Paul Revere. He also recreated the Boston Massacre into an engraving. “The Bloody Massacre” was a piece of war propaganda that didn’t accurately depict

In the American colonies there were many problems that they faced with the British. The colonists had very little say in their lives. The American colonies tried to push this issue with the British but it never worked.

The colonists felt that Britain and its laws were very oppressive and, as mentioned in paragraph one of the prompt, the colonists began to resist. There were many rebellions taking place at the time and controversy was inevitable, however one event that started out as cruel hazing turned deadly, and is now known as “The Boston Massacre”. Although most of colonists resented Britain, British Troops, and especially the custom collectors, after controversial acts of violence, one colonists, John Adams, defended British Captain Preston, and eight British Soldiers.

William Wyatt and Captain Thomas Preston had very different accounts on what happened at the Boston Massacre. Wyatt said that he was in Boston, when he heard the bells ring, which usually indicated that there is a fire. He ran up too the Town-house, where he saw soldiers and their officer, who was telling them to load their guns and then proceeded to tell the soldiers to fire. When they did not fire, he told them to fire again, until someone did and after everyone fired and killed townspeople, the officer yelled "Damn ye, rascals, what did ye fire for?" Wyatt also mentioned that the towns people did not throw anything at the soldiers.

In this small scuffle of soldiers and civilians, history turned.            Revolutionary fervor in New England was spreading like wildfire in the aftermath of this “massacre”. It led to the protest of British goods and eventually to other forms of rebellion such as the Boston Tea Party. It can be solidly said that without the Boston Massacre the colonies fate and the fate of the world would be drastically different.

Before the French and Indian War, the British ruled over the colonies in America very lightly. The colonists created their own taxes and practically ruled themselves. Britain prospered from all of the trade flowing between itself and its colonies. This system worked out very well until a war started in the American colonies of Britain against the colonies of France. After the French and Indian War, the British had debts that they needed to pay off, and since it was fought partially in the American colonies, the colonies needed to help pay for some of the war debts. Parliament established taxes on the colonies, which infuriated the rich land owners in the colonies. Some of the elite landowners formed a group called the Sons of Liberty, who wrote letters to Parliament and the King of Britain, asking them to rethink the taxation laws that they had placed upon the colonies. Surprisingly, Parliament decided to repeal that tax but then applied a new tax. This happened one more time before King George

“Between the hours of nine and ten o’clock, being in my master’s house, was alarmed by the cry of fire, I ran down as far as the town-house, and then heard that the soldiers and the inhabitants were fighting in the alley… I then left them and went to King street. I then saw a party of soldiers loading their muskets about the Custom house door, after which they all shouldered. I heard some of the inhabitants cry out, “heave no snow balls”, others cried “they dare not fire”. The Boston massacre has been no massacre it was propaganda. The incident that happened March 5th, 1770 in the streets of Boston only killed five people and had six people with non fatal injuries. There were