how did the boston massacre unite the colonists so that they rebeled against the british....how did it mark the beginning of the end of england and its precense in the U.S. and how was it a turning point in the American Revolution? thanks sweetie!
2007-09-05 15:28:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The Boston Massacre was not really a massacre. Only a few people were killed. On March 5, 1770, a crowd of people gathered near the State House in Boston. When they threatened the British sentries on duty they opened fire killing three people and wounding eight others. Eventually two died later. The angry citizens demanded the removal of the British troops and the trial of British Captain Preston. John Adams successfully defended him. Paul Revere based a famous engraving of the event that helped to inflame passions throughout the colonies. Since there was no media in the colonies as there is today people were more inclined to accept the engraving as fact. The Boston Massacre occurred before the Revolutionary War and wasn't a turning point in it.
But like the Stamp Act and the Boston Tea Party it was one of the events that led up to the war.
2007-09-08 08:42:57 · answer #1 · answered by harveymac1336 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This site...http://www.bostonmassacre.net/index.html will answer all your questions plus some you haven't thought of, and provides cool pictures.
Very good questions!
2007-09-05 16:00:57 · answer #2 · answered by History Nut 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they all attacked them together. It wasn't something too spectacular.
2007-09-05 15:39:47 · answer #3 · answered by Strive to Survive 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋