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Between the State and Congress Streets in Downtown Boston

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This event was a British and Colonial action; the British protested over the tight security over the Colonists, the Colonists were heavily taxed and the taxed money was very close to them. The Colonists then riled against the British, one thing leads to another, and shooting happened.

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The Boston Massacre justified Patriot colonists dislike of the British. Media portrayed the British as savages because they had killed a little boy and five other people. The British lost support of many of the colonists and with the high taxes, aggression continued. After this event in particular, the Colonists fought back with their next indirect attack of destroying tea and then forming a Congress of some sort.

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The After-effects of this was mass outrage of colonists; many British or neutral colonists converted to the Patriotic side. Five years after the Boston Massacre, they staged the Boston Tea Party and formed the first Continental Congress, which eventually led to the American Revolution.

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Significant Person (Captain Thomas Preston)

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Significant Person (Captain Thomas Preston)

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Captain Thomas Preston was the one who commanded soldiers to guard around the king's vault. He defended it and was there when the situation got so extreme the soldiers started firing on the colonists. While determining if he was guilty of telling his soldiers to fire, John Adams came to his defense saying that there was no evidence of Preston telling Richard Palmes (one who shot first) to fire. After the situation, Captain Preston said, “None of them was a hero. The victims were troublemakers who got more than they deserved. The soldiers were professionals…who shouldn’t have panicked. The whole thing shouldn’t have happened."

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Many colonists were already upset at the seemingly increasing taxes; after an accidental killing of a young boy, a fight broke out, leading to the Boston Massacre. Hugh White was the only officer guarding the king's money in the town. Colonists started harassing White, which caused him to strike a man with his bayonet. People were furious at this and started throwing things like snowballs, ice, and stones. Bells that indicated a fire at that time were ringing and, many male colonists went outside. Mean-while, White called Captain Thomas Preston for help. Preston thought that violence was enviable and set up defenses. The situation escalated quickly, prompting yelling and more violent weapons thrown at the British soldiers. One soldier in peculiar fired, whether or not it was because of misinterpreting a word he thought he had heard, fire or it being intentional is still unknown. After the shot many other soldiers joined him, killing a total of five people and wounding six. These deaths soon were used for political gain for the Anti-British Patriots to convince the British loyalists. In the Media it was exaggerated, some outlets using in-factual biased or blatantly untrue recountings of events, deaths, wounded, and intent.

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The British put a heavy burden on the colonists by enforcing tax laws such as the "Stamp act" and the "Townshend Act"; on-top of these taxes, the British planted ~two thousand British soldiers to watch the ~sixteen-thousand living there at the time. Because of the law enforcement and these higher taxes, the patriot colonists were very upset. One event, in particular, was when the officer, Ebenezer Richardson, tried to break up a crowd and shot his gun; he accidentally killed an eleven-year-old boy. After the death, the instigated hate toward the British increased, days after a fight broke out, with minimal bloodshed.

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Boston Massacre