The Boston Massacre: the Beginning of a Revolutionary Conflict
Words: 430 Pages: 1 1076On a chilly March evening in 1770 Boston Massachusetts was buzzing with tension. The air was thick with resentment towards British rule sparked by hefty taxes from the Townshend Acts that really rubbed the colonists the wrong way. Things got dicey when a group of locals clashed with a British sentry named Private Hugh White. It all kicked off when a young wigmaker's apprentice Edward Garrick threw shade at Captain-Lieutenant John Goldfinch over an unpaid tab. White stationed outside the […]