Analyze The Effects Of Exaggeration On The Masses

Zachary Ogdon Professor Rager History 135 13 April 2024.

The Effects of Exaggeration on the Masses: How Taxation Evolved into the Boston Massacre and then the American Revolution.

On March 5th, 1770, eleven protesting civilians were shot and killed after Boston civilians provoked British soldiers (“Today in History - March 5”). According to an anonymous source, five people died in total, and three on the spot. The Boston Massacre is known as a key point in American history, and one that led to the American Revolution. Many Native Americans had been killed when the colonists first arrived, so were the deaths of these five people truly impactful enough to start a war? While the Boston Massacre was not a true massacre, the over-exaggeration by …show more content…
The soldiers in this case were vastly outnumbered. After being attacked by a single person in a mob, the likelihood of another attack happening skyrockets. Humans are known to go with the crowd, and when in a mob, tend to perform actions that they would not perform if they were by themselves. This meant that once the club was thrown, the mob was destined to turn violent. The soldier who fired the first shot likely fired and commanded his comrades in arms to fire out of fear for what was next to come. It is one thing to look at a heated situation after the fact and decide that there was a much better solution than to be in that situation and be required to come up with a solution of your own. This is why John Adams was able to win the trial for the soldiers. All in all, the Boston Massacre was a pivotal point in the American Revolution, but without the extremely high tensions between the Colonists and the British that existed due to taxation, and the portrayal of the event by the media, the Revolution likely would not have happened when it did. Whether or not the Revolution would have happened eventually is up in the air, but it is quite clear that the Boston Massacre by

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Analyze The Effects Of Exaggeration On The Masses

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