Boston Massacre Dbq

Edward Buckley here reporting live from Boston where a massacre has just outbroke. British troops were sent in to maintain order of the colonist. The colonist didn't seem to be too happy about that. Large groups of angry colonist came together and began taunting the British soldiers. Along with the taunting, the colonist began throwing snowballs and showing hostile actions towards the British soldiers.

"Then there was nothing but snow; snow on the road, snow kicking up from the chains, snow on the trees, snow in the sky, and our trail in the snow." (Wolff) " Because the freezing point is 32 above zero, it meant that there were 107 degrees of frost. The dog had learned about fire, and it wanted fire." (London)

The Revolutionary War ,also known as the American War of Independence or The American Revolution began in 1775.You may ask what was the American Revolution,or how did it help the United states. This war helped get our independence. This war began because the colonies wanted to be free from England. This war ended in 1783. Their conflicts began a decade before The Revolutionary War.

This shows that it wasn’t a large number of humans killed or hurt not resulting in a massacre. This idea that a few colonists died was corroborated because it was shown in document 2,3 and 4. The point of view of each document was that it was not a massacre and most of all the documents were somewhat reliable because it was written shortly after the document was written and some were taken by a biased

In my opinion I think that both sides were at fault, but ultimately it was the fault of the British soldiers. The Townshend acts was a series of acts passed down by the Parliament of Great Britain. However, the colonist did not agree with the acts because it raised revenues in order to pay for government officials. The colonist began a riot, thus resulting in the importation of British troops within Boston. The Boston Massacre happened on March 5th, 1770.

The people of Boston had a town meeting. They wanted to remove all of the British soldiers and convict the soldiers that took place in the Boston Massacre of murder. A trial was held. John Adams and Josiah Quincy II defended the soldiers, eventually they were acquitted. However, later

The colonists began throwing snowballs and rocks at the troops. Suddenly, a single shot was heard and was followed by more shots. Five colonists were killed and many more were wounded. Two of the British soldiers were found guilty of killing the five colonists. They were punished

The Boston Massacre was in 1770, and was a clash between British soldiers and a large mob. It is very controversial on who started the incident, but their was a lot of colonial propaganda that came out on this incident. The colonists were the aggressors in the Boston Massacre because they taunted and “assaulted” the British soldiers, they made the soldiers think that their captain was telling them to fire, and their was a lot of propaganda and bias that came out to show the opposite of what happened at the massacre. The Colonists taunted the British and threw things at them to make them shoot. Most of the crowd was drunk and acted in an unacceptable manner.

The rain fell down in frigid sheets. Ira Whelan stood alone on the gelid deck that was once the Petersburg train station. Now all that remained of the once bustling establishment was the foundation of a prodigious building, and the sooty frozen planks that lay under him. It was winter in West Virginia, and it was the first one after the war’s end. If Ira would’ve had shoes, perhaps the cold weather wouldn’t have bothered him so considerably.

Was the Boston Massacre an accident, people say it was, people say it wasn't. Till what I´ve heard the Boston Massacre is not an accident because according to the articles many witnesses were there to experience it such as Benjamin Burdick he had a testimony of the Boston massacre that he said in court. Another guy that was there to witness the horrible traject was Nutent Prince both of them saw what happened. Nutent Prince supports either side because it says in source D that he saw snow balls, clubs, buckets, that the colonist had to defend themselves. Also the testimony of Thomas Preston who was the captain of the british soldiers, said i source B that many of the civilians were yelling saying ¨Come on rascals, your bloody backs, you lobster scoundrels, fire if you dare...dam you…

There were many disagreements and because of those, many events were the cause of the American Revolution. These events included bloodshed by others, peoples rights weren’t enforced, individuals didn’t receive freedom, and our country was just not yet whole. Despite of the causes of why the road to Revolution took place there were effects afterwards. When American Revolution was over with the The Declaration of Independence came into place, treaties were signed, and the Bill of Rights. Now these effects/events were amazing, it helped our country tremendously.

The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a “patriot”. They were throwing sticks, snowballs, and trash at a group of British troops. The loyalists got very annoyed with the patriots so they shot into the mob killing five. The riot began when around 50 colonists attacked a British sentinel. A British officer called in for additional troops

The Boston Massacre is an event most Americans and British students learn about over the course of their education. In America, we learn that British soldiers fired upon innocent civilians, although this may not have been the case. British historians have referred to the Boston Massacre as the "Incident on King Street". After looking over the "Captain Thomas Preston 's Account of the Boston Massacre", as well as "Boston Massacre Trial Depositions" I believe that American historians should refer to the "Boston Massacre" as the "Incident on King Street". The definition of a massacre refers to an unnecessary and random killing of a large number of individuals.

The careful steps of Charles O’Riley sank deep into the thick, muffling pillow of snow without the slightest evidence of sound. The flakes settled softly in his wake, whirling flurries of a tender blindness, slowly, gently tucking away all traces of noise into the deep caress of forsaken dreams. The late hours of evening had yet to pass over the day, and O’Riley’s worn leather soles, peeling and brown-black from years of trudging through the winter snow, halted their steady march, paused, and settled their weight firmly to both feet, as their owner craned his head. Right hand absentmindedly clutching a tattered old tweedy hat to his head, as squinted through the snow at the bold, red “Condemned” letters spelled out across the cracked and dusty

The father stood there in an awkward fashion gathering the memories which elated him to the utmost degree, and locking away the nightmares of the past behind a illusionary veil of lies. The father then noticed how dry his lips were, and felt a sorrowful embarrassment come over him as a breath from Jack of the frost sent a sudden realization of what they came here to accomplish. He sighed and started to speak, “I apologize for taking so long, you know how much this means to me.” The son still feeling quite agitated toward his father, narrowed his eyes and said in response, “Yeah, Yeah, just don’t forget why we came here Pops. It is a cold night, so cold the sky must be ready to let loose with some snowfall.”