On February 22, 1770, an 11-year-old boy ... John Adam's cousin and a leader of the revolutionary movement, immediately christened the event the "Boston Massacre." The bloody event galvanized ...

Crispus Attucks is believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution ... What would soon be known as the Boston Massacre started with a minor dispute: On the evening of March 5, 1770, a ...

This Saturday, April 19, marks 250 years since the start of the Revolutionary ... 1770, emotions bubbled over. Boston locals and English troops got into a confrontation, leading to the Boston ...

1766 National Museum of American History Pamphlet, Townshend's Revenue Act, 1767 National Museum of African American History and Culture Boston Massacre, March 5th, 1770 ...

This is “The Bloody Massacre,” Paul Revere’s famous depiction of the Boston Massacre in 1770. It was an image that helped ... down a lot of the ideas that became the basis for the American Revolution.

In the years following the Boston Massacre, playwright Mercy Otis Warren wrote that "No previous outrage had given a general alarm, as the commotion on the fifth of March, 1770." Although the ...