The Boston Massacre 1770

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The Boston Massacre (1770)
Is this an accurate representation of the Boston
Massacre?
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Townshend Acts (1767)

• Stamp Act Repealed
• Parliament declares right to tax colonies
• Townshend Acts Import duty (tax) - glass, paper,
  lead, tea.
• Hurts New England shippers
• Redcoats sent to Boston to enforce

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The Boston Massacre by Paul Revere, 1770
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Engraving by John Buford and William Champey,
1856.
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Epilogue

• John Adams defends soldiers
• Some acquitted.
• Some guilty of manslaughter
• Branded on thumbs

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Meaning

• The Massacre was used as a propaganda to sway
  colonists against British.
• The Massacre was a symptom of the bigger
  problem a standing British army in the colonies
  against colonial wishes.

Old State House, Boston, site of the Massacre.