This video gives a brief description of the events revolving around the Boston Massacre.

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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-British troops were withdrawn from the city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