Transcript The Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre
Colonial Propaganda
What Led up to the Boston
Massacre?
 Townshend Acts (1767)
 Writs of Assistance
 Quartering Act
 Mass. Legislator attacks “taxation without
representation”
 Mass. assembly dissolved
 Protests
March 5, 1770
 Angry Crowd gathers
outside customs house
 50-60 colonists yell
insults and throw
snowballs
 Soldier slips--gun
discharges
 Five Colonists dead
After Effects
 Right to a fair trial?
 John Adams and Josiah Quincy defend the
soldiers
 Two soldiers convicted of lesser charge
 Branded on their thumbs and released
Propaganda
 How is it a piece of
propaganda?
 Other pieces of
Propaganda—
 World War I and II
posters
 Military recruitment
posters