BOSTON MASSACRE

the 4 w's

• The colonists started a fight with british soldiers
• The colonists and british soldiers were involved
• It started on March 5, 1770
• It started in Boston

CAUSE of the event

• Taxes were placed on lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea
• Were not represented in Parliament but still taxed

Effect of THE EVENT

• Colonists boycotted British goods
• Sent letters of protest
• Then colonists got mad so threw snowballs, sticks, and pieces of ice
• At some British guards which started the Boston Massacre

BRITISH view of the event

• A trial later determined that the soldiers were acting in self-defense
• The British didn't like the engrave in the Boston Gazzette that day
• The British didn't like the picture, The Bloody Massacre cause
• There was a dog and a lot of injured colonists in the picture

PATRIOT VIEW OF THE EVENT

• Samuel Adams used the so-called Boston Massacre to increase
• Dislike to the British
• The Patriots thought that the colonists should have done that just to get
• Representation

Loyalists view of the event

• The Loyalists think that the colonists shouldn't have done that cause
• They should follow the acts
• The colonists should't have done that cause they would have got
• Shot anyway cause the British have guns