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May 29, 2017 · On March 5, 1770, British soldiers on Boston’s King Street (now State Street) fired on a raucous mob of screaming, taunting civilians, killing five. Within days of the shooting, Henry Pelham made a sketch of the event, which became known as the Boston Massacre. Pelham was half-brother of painter John Singleton Copley, who by this time had ...
On March 5, 1770, a clash between Bostonians and British troops led to the death of five colonists. Within three weeks, Boston patriot and printer Paul Revere offered his version of this event, now known as the Boston Massacre. In the below image, Revere included a poem, paragraph, and the names of the Patriot men who died as a result of the ...
On October 14, 1774, the First Continental Congress issued the Declaration of Colonial Rights and Grievances. The declaration denied Parliament’s right to tax the colonies and lambasted the British for stationing troops in Boston. It characterized the Intolerable Acts as an assault on colonial liberties, rejected British attempts to ...
1 print : engraving with watercolor, on laid paper ; 25.8 x 33.4 cm. (plate) | A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, on the signal of an officer, fire into a crowd of civilians at left. Three of the latter lie bleeding on the ...
In this interactive image, students interpret Paul Revere’s famous engraving of the Boston Massacre. They learn about the figures shown in the engraving, including Crispus Attucks and Captain Thomas Preston, and consider who is not represented in the image. As they work through their image analysis, students evaluate how and why the Boston Massacre engraving is a piece of propaganda and how ...
Jan 28, 2013 · Paul Revere's version of the Boston Massacre (right) is slightly more colorful, but suspiciously similar in almost every detail to the drawing (left) that Henry Pelham, a Boston engraver and ...
What do the things in the cartoon symbolize and what is the slant behind the cartoon. This can begin a discussion about propaganda and bias. * Then we will look at the Boston Massacre engraving and students will complete a worksheet where they look at these same aspects of a drawing as done previously in the other two discussions.
