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Exaggerated images of “the massacre” were used to inflame the colonists.
The increase in British troops stationed in Boston leads to tension with the
locals. Fights erupt between soldiers and liberty-minded civilians. British troops
are sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce the Townshend Acts, a series of laws
passed by the British Parliament. The purpose of the Townshend Acts is to make
colonial governors and judges independent of colonial control, to enforce
compliance with trade regulations, and to tax the colonies without their approval.
When an angry crowd of colonists - most likely led by provocateurs of a secret
society known as The Sons of Liberty (3) - confronts a group of soldiers with
taunts and snowballs, the frightened British soldiers overreact. Shots are fired
and five American colonists are killed. The embellished news of the Boston
Massacre serves the purpose of spreading the revolutionary spirit throughout the
colonies.
DECEMBER 16, 1773
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY / COLONISTS REBEL AGAINST
BRITISH TAXES AND MONOPOLIES
