How did the Boston Massacre stir up rebellion in Massachusetts?
1 Answer
Oct 13, 2017
Hype
Explanation:
People didn't like the British already in Boston, and this even provoked them further. Historians say the Boston Massacre was faulted and started by the colonists, who were agitating the British soldiers. But the press drew and talked like it was a deliberate unprovoked attack against the colonists. The soldiers were taken to trial and John Adams (who was a huge pro-colonists person and later president of the US) decided to defend the soldiers in court because he said he believed more in a fair trial than in an independence movement. But the idea that the soldiers would fire into a crowd still made them mad and it just added fuel to the fire.
