"Boom boom boom!" One by one each men fell down, some lay dead on the freezing soil, some lay yelling in pain. "The Boston Massacre" was not really a massacre, in a sense that many were killed, but in the sense that the British government had gone too far of controlling the colonists. The Massacre also is one of the key points that lead to the Revolutionary War, and it also shows how the relationship of the British and the colonists was going to change.
"You lobsters have no right to tax us people!" Colonists from all over the colonies shouted. Even before the Boston Massacre, there are already many boycotting taking place. One of the taxation that led to the Boston Massacre was the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act taxes the colonists on things like papers, newspapers, and taverns. Which is what most people needed to use everyday, so the colonists began to boycott, they rebel on streets, and refused to by the materials that is taxed. These incidents caused the colonist's hatred toward the British, and also it somewhat caused the Boston Massacre.
"Shoot us if you dared!" Yelled rebels that are hitting the soldiers with stones and snowballs. One March 5, 1770, at approximately 3:50 p.m. a British soldier strikes a Barbour's apprentice called Edward Garrick. Edward screamed for help, and colonists began to crowd toward King Street. The British also called for help, and the street was then crowed with the angry colonists and the British solider. The British soldiers were commanded not to fire, however soon the colonists began to get crazy, and they started to attach the British with stones and snowballs. One of the British soldiers slipped, and the gun went off. It killed a few colonists, and with the screaming, the other soldiers thought they were commanded to shoot, so they started to shoot the colonists. Just as the confusion was getting even worse, Governor Hutchinson and Colonel Dalrymple came, and one told the colonists to calm down, and another commanded the British to retreat.