The Boston Massacre added to the hatred between the British soldiers and the colonists. The hostility and the Tea Act of 1773 sparked the Boston Tea Party.
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The Boston Massacre. Crispus Attucks is a name synonymous with the Boston Massacre. He was not only the first African American to die for the revolution, he was one of the first patriots to give his life for the cause. American blood was shed on American soil.
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...in 1770, Crispus Attucks, a black man from Framingham, and four other civilians were shot dead by British soldiers. Attucks worked on whaling ships and, between voyages, as a semi-skilled laborer around the port of Boston.
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He was probably the first man killed in the Boston Massacre. In the Boston Commons, there is a statute of him. After the incident, Sam Adams insisted the British troops leave Boston. The Massachusetts governor moved the soldiers to Castle William on one of the nearby islands.
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The British Make the Americans Skittish. This print of Paul Revere's depiction of the Boston Massacre is on display in the Diplomatic Receptions Rooms of the Maine State Department building in Washington, D.C. U.S. Department of State. Samuel Adams and James Otis did not take this lightly.
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On March 5, 1858, black abolitionists gathered at Fanueil Hall for a celebration of the first Crispus Attucks Day.. Thirty years later, a monument was erected on Boston Common in honor of Crispus Attucks, the first to defy, the first to die.. Sources. The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution 1770-1800, by Sidney Kaplan (New York Graphic Society, 1973). The Boston Massacre, by Hiller Zobel (W.W. Norton, 1970).
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9e. Crispus Attucks is a name synonymous with the Boston Massacre. He was not only the first African American to die for the revolution, he was one of the first patriots to give his life for the cause. American blood was shed on American soil.
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On a wintry evening in March of 1770, a group of British soldiers opened fire into a crowd of youths and men gathered near the Custom House in Boston. A number of the men were wounded; five of them died. The incident was labeled a massacre of innocent, unarmed civilians by bloodthirsty soldiers.
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Private Hugh Montgomery. Private Hugh Montgomery was the first British soldier to fire in the Boston Massacre. He was also identified by many witnesses in the trial as the man who killed Crispus Attucks.
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The Path to the American Revolution ~~~~~ The Boston Massacre. March 5, 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts ~~~~~. In February 1770, eleven year old Christopher Sneider was shot and killed by a British merchant during a riot. His funeral drew thousands of people and was probably still on the minds of all the residents of Boston on March 5th.
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who was the first guy to die in the boston massacre
Crispus Attucks was the first guy to die in the Boston Massacre.   Crispus Attucks was the first guy to die in the Boston Massacre.   