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This is the story:
On the same day that Parliament repealed most of the Townshend duties, a brawl broke out between soldiers and colonists in Boston. When the dust cleared, five Bostonians were dead and ten were injured. Patriots called this incident the “Boston Massacre.” A massacre is the killing of defenseless people. What really happened was a small riot.
Trouble had been brewing in Boston for months before the riot. To the British, Boston patriots were the worst troublemakers in the colonies. In 1768, the government had sent four regiments of troops to keep order in Boston.
Bostonians resented the British soldiers. They made fun of their red uniforms by calling them “lobster backs.” Sam Adams even taught his dog to nip at the soldiers' heels.
Despite such insults, the troops were forbidden to fire on citizens. Knowing this only made Bostonians bolder in their attacks. General Thomas Gage, the commander of the British army in America wrote that “the people were as lawless…after the troops arrived, as they were before.”
On March 5, 1770, a noisy mob began throwing rocks and ice balls at troops guarding the Boston Customs House. Some Patriot leaders tried to persuade the crowd to go home. But their plan had no effect. The mob pressed forward, someone kicked a soldier to the ground. Troops panicked, and opened fire. Two bullets struck Crispus Attuck a large black man at the front of the crowd. He was the first to die, but not the last. The enraged crowd went home only after receiving a promise the troops would be tried for murder.
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Directions: Respond to the prompt using a thesis, evidentiary sentences paraphrased or with limited quotations from documents, and explanatory sentences to craft top-quality arguments.
This is the question:
Were the colonists justified in their actions in the Boston Massacre?
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