Boston Massacre Essay

The Boston Massacre also known as the Incident on King Street took place on the evening of March 5, 1770, and resulted in the killing of five colonists. This event had emerged over the past five years by the frustration of the colonists due to the unfair decisions made by the British Parliament. This rebellion is considered a major event that led to the American Revolution, since it raised the tensions even more between the colonists and the British Crown. This research addresses three of the significant events that led to the Boston Massacre, such as the British introduction of the following acts: “Stamp Act of 1765”, “Quartering Act of 1765”, “Townshend Act of 1767”, and the “Quartering Act of 1774”.

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This new act continued the taxation on products imported from Britain such as tea, paper, lead paint, and glass. This new introduction also resulted in a negative reaction from the people of the colonies. Their way of showing their anger towards the parliament was by resistance to paying these taxes, protests, and publications criticizing the act. For example, Letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson was one of the most famous publications by colonists who were against this new law. In this publication, the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson argues that the Parliament didn’t had the right to continue to rise revenues among the colonies. This act was repeal that same night of the Boston Massacre and only left the taxation for tea that later led another revolt under the name “The Boston Tea

Thus, the massive arrival of troops from 1765 to 1768 led to a proportion of almost one soldier for every eight Bostonians. However, the arrival of British Troops to the colonies had their consequences. While paying the debts from previous wars and lacking space to accommodate the British troops in Boston the Parliament later decided to introduce the “Quartering Act of 1774”. This new act was slightly different from the one introduced back in 1765. The changes that were made in this act was that now the colonists weren’t required to pay for the basic needs of the soldiers.

As a result, the reaction from the people was also negative, even though it was a new act with less requirements the colonists thought it was unfair. The poor paying of the British Troops led them to having the need to look for jobs in the colonies. This made the colonists be angrier since the soldiers would ask for less money and the same amount of work which made them more eligible to get the jobs. These events continued to rise the tensions between the colonists and the British crown that contributed to the Boston