EMERGENCE OF USA
HOW DID THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION INFLUENCE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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British commanders ordered troops to shoot into a rioting crowd in effort to restore order
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the victims were innocent bystanders who were caught in the barrage of gunfire
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the victims had done little to provoke the confrontational and hostile British troops
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Boston radicals used it as propaganda to take advantage of the heightened tensions
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Detailed explanation-1: -The incident fueled the anger of colonists like Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. They used the massacre as propaganda, recreating a Henry Pelham painting and distributing copies all over the Boston area in order to incite the public. Revere in such a way as to cast the British in a more negative light.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Boston Massacre Late in the afternoon of March 5, 1770, British sentries guarding the Boston Customs House shot into a crowd of civilians, killing three men and injuring eight, two of them mortally.
Detailed explanation-3: -The cause of the Boston Massacre had to do with taxation without representation. In addition to this, British troops had been sent to Boston to enforce tax laws and the colonists resented the British troops.
Detailed explanation-4: -As a piece of propaganda, The Bloody Massacre was designed to elevate a tragic incident into a politically motivated calamity and agitate the colonists’ negative view of the British occupation of Boston.