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    The American colonist and the British started out having a very civil relationship. They provided each other with resources. During the French and Indian war the colonists were on the British side and helped them fight. Unfortunately, after the war the British started to change their ways and started to come up with new stricter rules. The British started to tax the colonist on different kinds of items, which was not fair to the colonists. They were controlling the colonist with everything they did

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    Dbq The Boston Massacre

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    The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts. The Boston Massacre was a small riot between the colonists and British soldiers. Evidence supports that the colonists were to blame for the events that led to the Boston Massacre, which resulted in five colonial deaths. The colonists used propaganda to invoke anger in the colonists. Document 1, which is an engraving of the Boston Massacre by Paul Revere depicts the colonists as helpless bystanders that were shot down by the British

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    he would certainly been one of out countries foremost leaders. In fact, "Loyalist Peter Oliver surmised in 1782 that if Warren had lived, George Washington would have been 'an obscurity' " (Klein). In 1772 in his speech commemorating the Boston Massacre, Warren wrote, "May we ever be a people favored of God. May out land be a land of liberty, the seat of virtue, the asylum of the oppressed, a name and praise in the whole earth"

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    Was the Boston Massacre an accident? That is the question. In many cases some say yes, however, the British soldiers that were under “attack”, by snowballs and rocks, of the colonists put themselves in that position. To begin the day colonists by the name of Edward Archbald, William Merchant, Francis Archbald, and John Leech Jr., came down cornhill together. They separated at Doctor Loring’s corner. Archbald and Merchant walked down a narrow path where in a clearing they saw British soldiers with

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    What follow are the events and tensions leading up to the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. The soldiers and the colonists were quarreling and there were high tensions amongst them. In the days leading up to the massacre the soldiers may have plotted against the colonists of New England. There was a fight that took place at the ropemakers, which is considered to be one of the most influential encounters between the soldiers and the New Englanders. There are several different accounts of how this

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    China Occupation

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    a time of slaughter for civilians and soldiers alike, the international committee built a safety zone to protect innocent civilians from the chaos. The zone help saved over 200,000 Chinese civilians from the ruthless slaughters during the Nanking Massacre of 1937, and later stayed to help rebuild Nanjing after the Devastation attack. Each country has different views of what they believe was the start of WWII. “ But Asians trace the war’s beginnings all the way back to Japan’s first attempt to dominate

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    The Massacre At Nanjing

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    Historical Idea: The Japanese were particularly brutal because they saw the Chinese as an inferior race. A topic of debate in recent history is the reasoning behind the Japanese’ overly-brutal violence towards the Chinese during the massacre at Nanjing. The prevailing theory is that the Japanese saw the Chinese as an inferior race, or ‘Chancorro’ (sub-human)- thus, killing Chinese held no great significance. Chinese soldiers were not the only targets for the brutality, innocent Chinese citizens

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    “Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” shouted Colonel Prescott to the soldiers so they wouldn’t fire until it got more serious. The Boston Massacre took place on the night of March 5th 1770. The Massacre began because of the colonists fighting for their rights because of taxation on British goods.many colonists between the towns broke out into a mob and began to spread throughout the streets, picking up any kinds of weapon they would find. British soldiers and colonists died from

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    Do you know how many people died in the Boston Massacre? The Boston soldiers shot and killed 7 people, the citizens revolted because of the unfair British rule. The colonists revolted because of murders during the Boston massacre, which led to more revolts ending with the tea party that led to war. The British soldiers killed many citizens in the Boston Massacre who revolted in the unfairness of British law. One of the people that was revolting threw a club at a Hugh Montgomery, knocking him to

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    The Rape of Nanjing, also known as the Nanking Massacre was a horrific event that took place in late December of 1937. The Rape of Nanjing was a period of time after Japan's victory against the Chinese in the Sino-Japanese war, where Japanese soldiers entered into Nanjing, the capital of China on a quest to wipe out all Chinese troops that surrendered during the war. Along with the clearing of the Chinese troops many Japanese soldiers targeted men women and children, and tourists in Nanjing, brutally

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