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每天一篇“今日美史”，提炼和总结历史在今天发生的重要事件：谁，在哪里，什么时候，做了什么，这件事为什么重要，以及在写关于什么主题的论文的时候可以作为潜在的论据引用。 每天30秒，轻松积累史实 为AP美国历史拿5分打下坚实基础 What：The Boston Massacre took place.On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of angry colonists who called themselves Patriots gathered at the Customs House in Boston and began tossing snowballs and rocks at the lone British soldier guarding the building. The protesters did so to oppose the occupation by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament without direct American representation. In response, British Army soldiers shot and killed people. In total five civilians died as a result of the incident. Eight soldiers, one officer, and four civilians were arrested and charged with murder. Defended by lawyer and future American president John Adams, six of the soldiers were acquitted, while the other two were convicted of manslaughter, and sentenced to branding on their hand. The riot was heavily publicized by Patriots to encourage rebellion against the British authorities. The Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act, advertised the “Boston Massacre” as a battle for American liberty and just cause for the removal of British troops from Boston. Depictions, reports, and propaganda about the event, notably the colored engraving produced by Paul Revere, further heightened tensions throughout the Thirteen Colonies. 
Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre, depicting the British soldiers lining up like an organized army to suppress an idealized representation of the colonist uprising.In April 1775, the American Revolution began when British troops from Boston skirmished with American militiamen at the battles of Lexington and Concord. It would be more than five years before the Revolutionary War came to an end with British General Charles Cornwallis’ surrender to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. American Revolution, The Boston Massacre, Patriots
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