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Then display Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre and distribute page 1 of to students. They will work through the worksheet with a partner. Once everyone is done, discuss what each group came up with. Day 2 - Display Bufford’s image on the Smartboard and distribute page 2 of . Students will again work with a partner to complete worksheet.
The bloody massacre perpetrated in King - Street Boston on March 5th, 1770, by a party of the 29th Regt. / engrav'd printed & sold by Paul Revere, Boston ; re-engraved by Sidney L. Smith.
On March 4, 1770, Bostonians awoke to the find the city plastered with convincing forgeries of orders laying out a massive attack on the townspeople of Boston "signed" by prominent British soldiers. Adams's men had been up late hanging the signs throughout the city. Tensions were coming to a boil.
Source: “Case of Capt. Thomas Preston of the 29th Regiment,” in Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts Volume 7: Transactions, 1900–1902 (Boston: Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1905), 7–10. Summary Organizer: Boston Massacre Vocabulary In this protocol the students are expected to encounter vocabulary they do not know.
On February 22 Ebenezer Richardson, a neighbor of one of those merchants, shot and killed an 11-year-old boy who was part of a mob harassing him for trying to take down the sign. The child’s death sparked a week of riots—and when a handbill posted on March 5 claimed that the British soldiers were preparing to defend themselves, the rioters ...
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Mar 5, 2015 · Here is an excerpt from the Boston Gazette‘s March 12, 1770 story about the Boston Massacre: “….But the young man seeing a person near him with a drawn sword and good cane ready to support ...
The incident was the climax of growing unrest in Boston, fueled by colonists’ opposition to a series of acts passed by the British Parliament. Especially unpopular was an act that raised revenue through duties on lead, glass, paper, paint, and tea. On March 5, 1770, a crowd confronted eight British soldiers in the streets of the city.
