How Did The British React To The Boston Massacre

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French and Indian war caused Britain to tax the colonists because of the money spent on Soldiers, clothing, ships, and feeding the army. They thought that taxing the homeland would fail, so they started taxing the colonists for protecting them. The proclamation of 1763, and Treaty of Paris also led to them paying taxes. It's a shame that they make us pay for their mistake of war, and they have the nerve to say they are protecting us?

British gave us many ruthless acts for them to get spoiled rich, this include the Tea Act, which was introduced to create a monopoly for the British selling tea, making only the East India Company able to sell tea, this angered us, which would we only buy tea from one supplier? The Intolerable acts were introduced because of our justful dumping of tea in the Boston Harbor, they used savage acts to somehow punish us, but we will not stand for this.Finally, they had to nerve to introduce the Sugar Act, which taxed sugar, mollas, and coffee. …show more content…
It happened because the colonists were throwing objects and saying slurs to the British, which included “Lobster back”.This caused them to fire after a object hit a soldier and he fired. Newspapers have different depiction of what happened, which is outrages if they think that we started it, the engraving by Paul Revere is a accurate representation of what happened, we were innocent and were fired upon! those redcoats should be trialed! Not to mention the amount of disrespect they gave us after the
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