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Session 4

__**The Boston Massacre**__

[|Bloody Massacre]

__**Aparts Chart**__

Please answer the following questions once you have completed the APPARTS chart:
 * Based on your reading "The rights of the Colonists" and the document that you completed the APPARTS for, what do you see as the major reasons that colonists decided to revolt against their British rulers? In other words, what were they fighting for/against?
 * Give specific examples of how people chose to fight for their freedom during the American Revolution AND explain them (you may want to explore the Mass Historical Site a bit more to answer this question).
 * Give another example from history of when people took part in a "revolution". What happened? Why? Who was involved? Who was not?

1. The colonists decieded to revolt against their British rulers because they were fed up with all of the new rules and regulations. In the document it kept saying there was a consquence for everything if they resisted to follow a certain rule. Different rules, resulted in different consquences, and the British had enough, and started revolting against the British rulers.

2. One example of how people chose to fight for their freedom during the American Revolution, would be the Townshend Acts, including the

3. The Revolutionary War. It was bascially when thing's were not going as well as they should have, and more and more people were getting fed up, with others getting away with certain things. Therefore it caused a bunch of new acts, such as the Sugar Act, or The Boston Tea Party, and could be the Boston Masacre.



1. Depressing- Looking at this picture, this "Bloody Massacre" ended up killing 3 people, and injuring a few, all because the Bostonians were protesting and the British troops couldn't handle it.

2 Unconstitutional- In the U.S.A we have a Constitution and in the constitution is "Freedom of speech" which is one reason why many people like America, but in this case the Bostonians were protesting because it was their right to, and the British opened fire. They aren't even in their country, so why would they think that would be okay?

3. Riot- A riot definitly broke out against the British troops, because so many Bostonians were disguested with the British.

4. Meaninful- In a way this is a meaninful picture, because it shows were we stood back then, and how much we improved from then and now.

5. How the British reacted and they were in Boston, they had no right to just start out and fire.