Essay about Boston Massacre

The first reason I believe the Boston Massacre is because of Paul Revere's painting. After studying his painting, I would say it is very inaccurate. Not only was Crispus Attucks not shown as an African American, but Paul Revere shows innocence to the crowd of colonists. It was said that colonists had started by throwing snowballs, but snow is also not located anywhere on the painting. The saying that the Boston Massacre must've started after nine o'clock in the evening may be a false statement too because there is a patch of blue sky showing. I believe the Boston Massacre may actually have started in the morning as the moon can still be up, even during light. Paul Revere's painting was basically an

The Boston Massacre is considered by many historians to be the first battle of the Revolutionary War. The fatal incident happened on March 5 of 1770. The massacre resulted in the death of five colonists. British troops in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were there to stop demonstrations against the Townshend Acts and keep order, but instead they provoked outrage. The British soldiers and citizens brawled in streets and fought in bars. “The citizens viewed the British soldiers as potential oppressors, competitors for jobs, and a treat to social mores'; (Mahin 1). A defiant anti-British fever was lingering among the townspeople.     

After about 4 years the Townshend acts were passed. The Townshend acts were originated by Charles Townshend. They were meant to add even more taxes on all imported goods, which makes everything almost double the original price. Great Britain needed to pass this act because they still had so much of the debt to pay ofF. This was a huge financial burden for the colonists. There were many violent protests.This act eventually led to the Boston tea

Before the Boston Massacre even occurred, tensions were high in the city of Boston between the Bostonians and the British. At this time people were just

The act also gave customs agents the authority to search property, including the colonists’ homes. The colonial response to these acts was increasing violence against the customs officials. In 1768, the British government sent troops to America to reinforce the Townshend Acts and protect the customs agents. At one point there were 4,000 British soldiers in a city of only 16,000 people (Phelan, 24). According to Phelan, there were “almost daily confrontations” between soldiers and civilians (38). There was increasing tension between the troops and the American colonists. Some children as well as adults tormented the troops by throwing snowballs and chunks of ice at the soldiers. There was also increasing tension between the colonists who were loyal to the Crown and those who were loyal to the colonies because some store owners broke their agreements about importing and selling British goods. Children threw trash and rocks at those storeowners’ buildings. Several days before the Boston Massacre, one of the loyalist merchants shot and killed a young man who was a part of group vandalizing his business (Phelan, 44-46). The colonists’ tempers flared.

A series of laws created by the English Parliament and by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend. The Townshend Acts added responsibilities on glass, lead, paints, paper and tea imported to colonies. Townshend imagined the acts would provide more money for expenses in the colonies. But many Colonists viewed the Act as a sign of power. Ending in limits for the imports from Britain. In 1770, Parliament repealed all the Townshend acts except the tax on tea.

Townshend Act- The Townshend act was a series of taxes passed by parliament on the colonies. There was a tax on glass, white-lead, paint and tea. The Townshend Acts of 1767 were important because they helped to fire up the

The Townshend Acts had an interesting history. The Townshend Acts of 1767 were originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the failed Stamp Act. They were designed to collect money from the colonists in America by putting

The Boston Massacre was an important event in U.S. history, that lead to the American

The Townshend Act was a series that introduced the English Parliament by the Chancellor of Charles Townshend. One of the acts that the Townshend Act placed was putting tax on variety of things, such as glass, lead, and tea. The cause of the Townshend Act was to impose the American Colonist. The British desire was to basically raise the revenue and punish the colonist. The effect the Act had was a spread of dissatisfaction, boycotts on British imports, and leading up to the unrest of the Boston

Townshend Acts: The king’s finance minister Charles Townshend told Parliament that he had a way to raise revenue in the colonies. So in 1767, Parliament passed his plan, known as the Townshend Acts. It included suspension of New York’s assembly until New Yorkers agreed to provide housing for the troops, placed duties, or import taxes, on various goods brought into the colonies, such as glass, paper, paint, lead, and tea. The money raised would be used to pay the salaries of British governors and other officials in the colonies. Protests immediately broke out at news of the Townshend Acts.

The Boston Massacre lasted from 1763 to 1776. There were tax collectors that were all over the place and British soldiers that clashed with them. A Boston wig maker clashed with a tax collector then clashed with a British soldier, then a big mob formed. People started throwing things at the British Soldiers like snowballs, oysters, and rocks, which made one of the soldiers mad to make him fire. There was a young lawyer named John Adams that defended the soldiers and won.

In conclusion, most of the sources show that the Boston Massacre was an accident. Neither the British or the colonists planned for this to happen. It was just a miscommunication between them, along with the fact that the colonists were yelling and calling the soldiers names. The soldiers thought that their officer told them to fire, even though

The newspaper that was published based on the Boston Massacre change the way some people saw Great Britain. There was a mob that had started to attack the British barracks and then started to attack Hugh White, who got surrounded by the mob and then came Captain Thomas Preston to help him with his soldiers. The angry crowd, then started to throw snowballs and other items at the British soldiers which infuriated the soldiers. The British soldiers under Captain Thomas Presto started to fire at the crowd and killed 5 men and wounded others. When the Boston Massacre happened, it was shown in the newspaper a few days after the event had occurred. The newspaper told the event a little different to what happened, it changed people’s views, and it affected all the colonists.

To begin with, the Townshend Acts and writs of assistance played a major part in the eventual creation of the Declaration of Independence. The first they did this was by showing the colonists they could stand up to any British taxes. To understand the situation we have to first know what these acts were. The Townshend Acts were a series of duties/taxes placed on the colonist charging money for any glass, paper, paint, lead, or tea imports/exports to pay off the debt from the French and Indian War. The colonists were outraged by these acts and rightfully so; they had no representation in Parliament (which was England’s government which made the laws affecting the colonies). In today’s society this is the equivalent of the Vladimir Putin making putting a tax on