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Step 2: Lead a Close Examination of the Boston Massacre Prints. For this step exhibit the Pelham and Revere prints side-by-side to facilitate a close examination and comparison by the class. An important goal of this exercise is to train students to look very carefully at documents and consider details.
Nov 8, 2023 · Illustration. by Paul Revere. published on 08 November 2023. Download Full Size Image. The Bloody Massacre, depicting the Boston Massacre that occurred on 5 March 1770, engraving by Paul Revere, 1770. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Remove Ads.
Which of the following was a result of the Boston Massacre? a. Americans thereafter quietly paid their taxes to avoid violence, until the British antagonized the militia at Lexington in 1775. b. It increased resentment among colonists toward the British and contributed to the repeal of the Townshend Acts. c. The day after the massacre, the ...
The results of the Boston Massacre. The British soldiers were eventually put on trial, and patriots John Adams and Josiah Quincy defended the soldiers to show support of the Colonial Justice system. The trial ended in December 1770, two soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter. The two soldiers had their thumbs branded with a "M" for murder ...
Below is a selection of these eyewitness accounts of the Boston Massacre, as reported to the trial hearing: “Between the hours of nine and ten o’clock, being in my master’s house, was alarmed with the cry of fire, I ran down as far as the town-house, and then heard that the soldiers and the inhabitants were fighting in the alley….
John Adams: Defense of the Boston Massacre Soldiers. By James Grant. Pealing church bells called John Adams into the moonlit Boston street on the night of March 5, 1770. Erroneously supposing that they tolled for a fire, he joined the streaming crowd—firefighting in those days was a community effort. He was carried along to King Street, where ...
Cite. The Boston Massacre really did not have a purpose. It was not something that the British set out to do. Instead, it happened spontaneously. To the extent that it had a purpose, its purpose ...
