2. The Boston Massacre Colonial Propaganda

3. 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

4. March 5, 1770  Angry Crowd gathers outside customs house  50-60 colonists yell insults and throw snowballs  Soldier slips--gun discharges  Five Colonists dead

5. 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

6. Propaganda  How is it a piece of propaganda?  Other pieces of Propaganda—  World War I and II posters  Military recruitment posters