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- The Boston Massacre was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which nine British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.
- The Boston Massacre, called "The Incident on King Street" by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five colonial civilian men.
- The Boston Massacre is considered one of the most important events that turned colonial sentiment against King George III and British parliamentary authority.
- Although five years passed between the massacre and outright revolution, it is widely perceived as a significant event leading to the violent rebellion that followed.
- 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.
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- Prior to the revolution, many free African Americans supported the anti-British cause, most famously Crispus Attucks, believed to be the first person killed at the Boston Massacre .
- They were under orders to become activated if the British troops in Boston took the offensive.
- This picture depicts the death of African-American Crispus Attucks, who was believed to be the first person killed at the Boston Massacre.
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- Protests eventually led to the Boston Massacre of 1770, in which five colonists were killed.
- The colonial rejection of the Tea Act culminated in an act of resistance known as the Boston Tea Party, in which a group of colonists from the Sons of Liberty threw $1 million (in today's dollars) worth of British tea into the Boston Harbor that was meant to be sold in the colonies.
- The British responded by implementing the Coercive Acts, which were punitive in nature and meant to make an example of the colonies; and sending British troops to Boston to close Boston Harbor, causing tensions and resentments to escalate further.
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- Enforcement of colonial taxation in the form of the Townshend Acts only increased colonial tension and resistance, especially in Boston.
- John Hancock was one of Boston’s most successful merchants and prominent citizens.
- These clashes would eventually culminate in the Boston Massacre of 1770.
- On March 5, 1770—the same day as the Boston Massacre—Lord North, the new Prime Minister, presented a motion in the House of Commons that called for partial repeal of the Townshend Revenue Act.
- A view of the town of Boston in New England and British ships of war landing their troops in 1768
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- Four were bound for Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston.
- South of Boston, protesters successfully compelled the tea consignees to resign.
- In Boston, however, Governor Hutchinson was determined to hold his ground.
- "Americans throwing Cargoes of the Tea Ships into the River, at Boston"
- 1789 engraving of the destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor.
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- The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston.
- English troops burned the village and killed the estimated 400–700 Pequot inside, massacring all but a handful of the men, women, and children they found.
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- The Boston Tea Party of 1773, the most popular example, dumped British tea into Boston Harbor because it contained a hidden tax Americans refused to pay.
- In response to the Boston Tea Party Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts: the Second Quartering Act (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the Massachusetts Government Act (1774), the Administration of Justice Act (1774), the Boston Port Act (1774), and the Prohibitory Act (1775).
- During the Boston Tea Party of 1773, Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor in protest of a hidden tax.
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- The capture of Fort Ticonderoga allowed colonial forces to transport much-needed artillery to Boston and eventually break Britain's year-long siege.
- Cannons and other armaments from the fort were transported to Boston and used to fortify Dorchester Heights, breaking the standoff at the Siege of Boston.
- General Washington used the Fort Ticonderoga cannons to fortify Dorchester and force the evacuation of the British from Boston.
- They soon realized that they were in an untenable position and had to withdraw from Boston.
- Detail of a 1775 map of Boston, with Dorchester Heights at the bottom right: "A plan of the town and harbour of Boston and the country adjacent with the road from Boston to Concord, shewing the place of the late engagement between the King's troops & the provincials, together with the several encampments of both armies in & about Boston.
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- In an effort to restore law and order in Boston, the British dispatched General Thomas Gage to the New England seaport.
- As Boston became the headquarters of British military operations, many residents fled the city.
- Hoping for secrecy, his troops left Boston under cover of darkness, but riders from Boston let the militias know of the British plans.
- Seventy-three British soldiers and 49 patriots died during the British retreat to Boston.
- Even now, after open warfare had started, Gage still refused to impose martial law in Boston.
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- On April 18, 1689, a well-organized "mob" of provincial militia and citizens formed in the city of Boston.
- Furthermore, he had infuriated Puritans in Boston by promoting the Church of England, which was disliked by many Nonconformist New England colonists.
- "Andros a Prisoner in Boston" illustrated by F.O.C.
- British Governor Andros was arrested by rebels in Boston in 1689.