The Boston Massacre

Introduction

The Boston Massacre was a murdering of townspeople that took place in Boston, Massachusetts on March 5, 1770 at the beginning of the American Revolution. On this specific night, a gathering of about sixty colonists accumulated to yell at, taunt and throwing snowballs and rocks at the small in supplement the crowd extend to dare the troops to fire their muskets, the assembly of British troops was directed by head person Thomas Preston of the Fourteenth and the Twenty-Ninth Regiment (Alden, 1969). Residents of Boston had been resentful of the appearance of the British armies in their city. As stress climbed on the soldiers were incapable to disperse the gathering, as Private Hugh Montgomery, was someway knocked down during this time and also someone screamed “Fire!”, the fighters suddenly discharged their muskets into the crowd of townspeople. Five colonists were shot and killed. Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Patrick Carr and Crispus Attucks, an African American boat crew and former slave, were all shot and Crispus Attucks became the first individual to die in the American Revolution. (Nikki Steel et. Al, 1997)

Reason for the Massacre

The Boston Massacre, in many ways, was a tragedy, yet was crucial to the development of America as a nation. It was a misrepresentation of the notion of cruelty in the sense that an entire territory was judged through the rash actions of a couple of soldiers. The Massacre apparently showed the origin and effect of rising tensions between a territory and its colonies.

On stride 5, 1770, hostilities exchanged between a citizen and a British soldier resulted in a large mob that gradually enlarged to a riot of over 50 men. The brawl increased from swaps of words to physical violence. Ice, snowballs, and twigs were thrown. However, the clash became grave when a soldier was knocked to the ground by a club. In the confusion, a musket was discharged into the air, which was mistaken by the other fighters as an order to fire. When the dirt unblocked, the devastating results were clear: five Bostonians were killed. At that instant, the course of the future for America changed; it assisted to better the joined States in the sense that it reinforced the amalgamation between the peoples of the colonies, severed any bonds between the colonists and Britain, and ignited the spark for the American Revolution. (Kent, 1994)

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