USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Paul Revere produced the engraving shown here of the Boston Massacre. It was used as propaganda (something used to help or harm a cause or individual) to demand the removal of British troops from Boston.

Detailed explanation-2: -Patriots argued the event was the massacre of civilians perpetrated by the British Army, while loyalists argued that it was an unfortunate accident, the result of self-defense of the British soldiers from a threatening and dangerous mob.

Detailed explanation-3: -Revere depicts British gunfire as aggressive and unprovoked. The British are depicted as the only armed party and have no wounds. Various colonists lay fatally wounded and some of the wounded are carried away by panicked colonists.

Detailed explanation-4: -Crispus Attucks, a sailor of mixed African and Indigenous ancestry, died in Boston on March 5, 1770 after British soldiers fired two musket balls into his chest. His death and that of four other men at the hands of the 29th Regiment became known as the Boston Massacre.