and to tax the colonists to pay for it. Then the British Parliament

passed the Quartering Act in 1765. Colonists had to house British

soldiers and give each one candle and five pints of beer a day.

"Go back to England!!" the townspeople yelled as 4,000 Redcoats

got off their ships, and marched through the streets of Boston. It

was 1768 and the Redcoats moved to Boston to make sure the

people there paid their taxes. For two years the Redcoats were

there, they threatened each other, fist fights broke out,

townspeople threw eggs at the Redcoats, people trained their dogs

to bite the Redcoats, and people also called them names.For

instance, kids called them "lobster backs" and "bloody backs."

Also, it was very crowded onthe streets, because there was about

"By Sunday night, March 4th, 1770, Boston was boiling..... A

little after eight, soldiers, armed with cudgels and tongs, emerged

soldiers. In the center of this crowd an imposing man who was no

two sides exchanged insults, and a fight flared. Attucks, who

The soldiers rallied and drove the Boston crowd back."

Boston Massacre was one of the events which led up to the

young seventeen year old male was mortally wounded and died the

discourage demonstrations against the Townshend Acts which

rallied them and urged them to stand their ground. The people,

next morning, and Patrick Carr, a feather maker died as well.

a massacre at all, but a street fight between a Boston mob and a

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