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Download Boston Massacre: Analyzing Paul Revere's Misleading Engraving and more Study Guides, Projects, Research French in PDF only on Docsity! Boston Massacre - March 5, 1770 Analysis Questions: (this image is on the class website, or you can Google image it.) 1. Who are the aggressors in this engraving by Paul Revere? 2. Where is Captain Preston, the British commander? What is he doing? 3. Describe the crowd—its size, composition, and location. 4. What is the crowd doing? 5. What time of day is it? Activity 1 – You are viewing an image of the engraving of the Boston Massacre, by Paul Revere. Here are a few notes on what really happened at the Boston Massacre:  October 1, 1768: British regulars arrived in Boston, MA to maintain order and enforce the taxes the colonists were asked to pay after the French and Indian War, such as the Townshend Acts.  The elite/wealthy people of Boston resented the British soldiers and considered them a foreign presence.  The common people of Boston resented their presence because they competed for jobs with the “Lobster backs.” They taunted them and prevented them from carrying out their duties.  March 5, 1770: The Twenty-Ninth Regiment came to the relief of the soldiers on duty at the Customs House in Boston. They were met by an unruly gang of civilians, many of them drunk after having left a local tavern.  It was dark, and the crowd threw snowballs, ice balls, horse manure, and anything else lying on the street at the soldiers. The crowd also taunted the soldiers by yelling and calling them names.  Captain Preston could not control the crowd as they taunted the soldiers. He ordered his troops "Don’t fire!" but with the commotion the troops fired and killed three men instantly; another two died later. The first man to die was Crispus Attucks, a black man.  This was not a massacre in the sense that a lot of people died -- only five died.  The funerals of the dead were great patriotic demonstrations.  Preston and six of his men were acquitted (Robert Treat Paine as Prosecutor, and John Adams and Josiah Quincy as defense lawyers), but two of his men were found guilty of manslaughter, punished, and discharged from the army.  The event and the propaganda surrounding it helped lead to the Revolutionary War. You will now be asked to look at the engraving of the Boston Massacre and, keeping in mind what you just learned, come up with ways in which the picture is misleading and how that may have contributed to the feelings of the colonists: Misleading imagery: