BOSTON MASSACRE

   By Brittaney and Aaron

    The Boston Massacre all started when the Boston townspeople started calling the British troops names.  The British troops got furious.  Then somebody called out fire but nobody knew who shouted.  The British turned their guns and shot at the crowd.  When the smoke cleared, five townspeople lay dead. One of the men that got killed was Crispus Attucks. He was the first African American to die for the American liberty.  The colonists were furious with the British troops.  Seven months  later in October 1770 Captain Preston was tried for murder in a Boston courtroom .  He was acquitted by a Boston jury.  But when the soldiers' case came to trial the jurors in their case came from outside of Boston.  They won acquittals a month after the trial began.

    The sources that we used for the Boston Massacre were:
 

The Internet at http://www.earlyamerica.com/

        Our Country , Silver, Burdett, Ginn,  copyright 1995
        Massachusetts - the book.