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The Boston Massacre . This picture was drawn by **Paul Revere** after the Boston Massacre. A person named **Samuel Adams** forced Paul Revere to draw it because he wanted to make the colonists even more mad at the British. Paul Revere called it the **"Bloody Massare" .media type="youtube" key="LRxJh9mcfmk" height="317" width="524" Title:Boston Massacre, By:Smills83, Date:November 13, 2008, Site:www.youtube.com**
 * Who**: The colonists and the British soliders.
 * When**: March 5,1770
 * Where**: Boston, Masschusetts
 * Why and How**: The Boston Massacre started with the British soliders coming to live in Boston, Massachusetts and the colonists not liking it. So, the colonists started to make fun of the British soliders by calling the redcoats and red lobsters because of their uniforms. Some of the soliders got so mad that they destroyed colonial property. The anger between the colonists and the soliders grew worse and worse. More fights also started to break out more and more often. On **March 5,** **1770** a crowed of angery colonists gatherd close around some British soliders and began to shout insults, throw snowballs ,and throw rocks at them. As the colonists got closer the British soliders began to fire. So, that is why and how the Boston Massacre started.(Reflections, The United States: Making A New Nation)

The beggining of the Boston Massacre started when the colonists of **Boston, Massachusetts** started to become angry at all the British soliders or **" Lobster Backs "** as the as the colonists said, began living in their city. So, the colonists started to make fun of them by calling them **"Red Coats" and "Lobster Backs."** They also had many small street fights often. Some of the British soliders got so mad at the colonists that they started to destroy colonial property. As this went on the anger between the British soliders and the colonists grew worse and wores. More fights also broke out more and more often. One of the worst fights, **(the Boston Massacre)** took place on **March 5, 1770** on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts. When a crowd of 50 angry colonists gathered close around a British sentinel. A British officer named ,**Captain Thomas Preston**, called in more soliders to defend against them. The angry colonists started to throw snowballs and rocks at them. The British were told not to fire but someone did and then they all did. This caused a big riot. The British soliders killed 3 colonists on the spot and wounded 8. 2 of the 8 died later in total killing 5 people. The first person to die was an African American sailor named, **Crispus** **Attucks**. After the Boston Massacre, **Samuel Adams** told **Paul Revere**, a silversmith to go paint a picture of the Boston Massacre. Even though the picture wasn't accurate Samuel Adams did not care because he just wanted to convince the colonists to be even more mad at the British soliders. Paul Revere called the painting " The Bloody Massacre". People did not call the Boston Massacre, the (Boston Massacre) untill later on. What was so important about the Boston Massacre was that it turned the colonial people against King George III and also against British Acts, such as the Stamp Act, and Coercive Acts. Alot of the events that followed had a pattern of Britain showing its control and the colonists pushing back under the increased preasure. An event such as the Boston Tea Party was an example of the relationship of the colonists and the British getting worse and worse. This event helped spark the rebelian in some of the British American colonies, which led to the American Revolution.(Reflections, The United States:Making a New Nation) [|**John Pufford's**] drawing of the Boston Massacre. (African American History Through The Arts, Boston Massacre)
 * The Whole Summary of the Boston Massacre**:

Click Here to see a video on the Boston Massacre:[] Paul Revere:http://www.paulreverehouse.org/bio/bio.shtml, Samuel Adams:http://www.bookrags.com/Samuel_Adams,http://russell.gresham.k12.or.us/Colonial_America/Sam_Adams.html,Captain Thomas Preston: [], CrispusAttucks:http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/crispusattucks.html, King George III:http://www.kinggeorgeiii.com/
 * Name || Job || Date of Birth || Date of Death || Birth Place ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Paul Revere || a silversmith || December, 1774 || May 10, 1818 || Boston ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Samuel Adams || Public tax collector || September 27, 1722 || October 2,1803 || Boston, Massachusetts ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * John Pufford || Artist? || no info || no info || no info ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Captain Thomas Preston || no info || 1722? || 1798? || England? ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Crispus Attucks || sailor || 1723? || March 5, 1770 || no info ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * King George III || the 3 Hanoverian Monarch || June 4, 1738 || January 29, 1820 || London ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||

Timeline of the Boston Massacre and Surrounding Events:

1.1756-1763-French and Indian war 2.1764-The Sugar Act 3.1765-The Stamp Act 4.1765-The Quartering of the soliders 5.1767-The Townshed Act 6.1770-The Boston Massacre 7.1773-The Tea Act 8.1773-The Boston Tea Party 9.1774-The Intolerable Acts

Information found on:http://fpg.d127.org/aalderson/amerevolution.htm

This Poem Was Put On The Bottom Of Paul Rever's Painting In The Boston Gazzete:

Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore Thy hallow'd walks besmear'd with guiltless gore While faithless Pn and his savage bands With murd'rous rancour stretch their bloody hands Like fierce barbarians grinning o'er their prey Approve the carnage and enjoy the day.

If scalding drops from rage, from anguish wrung If speechless sorrow, lab'ring for a tongue Or if a weeping world can ought appease The plaintive ghosts of victims such as these The patriot's copious tears for each are shed A glorious tribute which embalms the dead.

But know, Fate summons to that awful goal Where Justice strips the murd'rer of his soul, Should venal C___ts, the scandal of the land, Snatch the relentless villain from her Hand Keen execrations on this plate inscrib'd Shall reach a Judge who never can be brib'd.

The unhappy sufferers were Mesr's Sam'l Gray, Sam'l Maverick, James Caldwell Crispus Attucks, & Patr. Carr Killed Six wounded; two of them (Christ'r Monk & John Clark) mortally.

I notice that Infoplease.com, in its 'this day in History' feature, says that the dead in the Boston Massacre were 'anti-British rioters', rather a different point of view from that expressed above. I suppose that's their idea of 'objectivity', in which it is seen as unseemly to take a pro-American point of view. The liberal point of view is that the Boston 'anti-British rioters' had it coming because they provoked the soldiers to shoot by throwing snowballs, as the account quoted below, from the Boston Gazette, indicated.

Most of the 'rioters' were 'youths' according to the Boston Gazette, though a few bystanders got caught up in the melee, including one Crispus Attucks.

Though most people can't name any of the other victims of the massacre, many can name Crispus Attucks because thanks to political correctness, he has been elevated to the status of hero and patriot. Why? Because he was 'a mulatto' according to the accounts. So in our day of affirmative action, he is the first AA hero of our country, even though it appears he was not part of any uprising or riot; he merely happened to be in Boston and was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

From the Boston Gazette report:

Title: Boston Massacre, Web Adress:http://vanishingamerican.blogspot.com/2009/03/boston-massacre-march-5-1770.html, Author: Vanishing American, Publisher: Blogspot, Date: 2009

Bibliographys:Title: Reflections, The United States: Making A New Nation, Series: California Series, Published By: Harcourt School Publishers, Seior Author: Dr. Priscilla H. Porter, Date: 2007, Title: American Revolution Timeline, URL::http://fpg.d127.org/aalderson/amerevolution.htm]]]], Title: African American History Through The Arts, [|URL:http://cghs.dadeschools.net/african-american/precivil/boston.htm] Title:Boston Massacre, By:Smills83, Date: November 13, 2008, Website: [|www.youtube.com]