Was the Boston Massacre a turning point in the road to the American Revolution?

0:05Countless want the books troops to skip. The assumption isn't if you keep 10,000 British troops until about 25,000 [inaudible] 10,000 in North America. All of them station very far away from any British anything back and so on. All the API wanted mountains road, Western Pennsylvania. What's interesting is that Athens Stamp Act riots and then after the boycott movement and things began to escalate. In 1766-1768, the British begin to become less and less concerned about policing with frontier. Thousands of instruments are moved eastward into colonial cities, and they're moved into the hottest spots. New York in particularly Boston.

0:42Now, this leads to real concern and anger about the presence of military personnel, in the presence of civilians and being used to presumably silence them, intimidate them available [inaudible]. Agaib what I want to suggest is that it's not inevitable. The colonial Americans will hate the British military. It's not inevitable that they will feel the British military is a threatening force of oppression. What it is the connective total, complicated story of how and why they came to experience the military. During the seven years of war, they really live here, the military. They're paying for the cost of the military.

1:18They're going to put our troops, they work side-by-side with British officers and men. There's a real sense of camaraderie, particularly between American quinone map. You can deficient. In 1763, they want 10,000 troops terminating community. They're willing to cool them. But it is the case that by the time you're now moving into say, Boston and seven and six feet, eight and six long and while they're there to try and prevent people from resisting the Townsend Acts, were denouncing the dissolution of the British military. What had been a revered institution. It was seen as an instrument of British power and liberty against the truth retroactively. At around that you're going to get real concerns

1:58about radio standing armies, are they knew the presence of the military and civilian populations, even that it was inevitable. But increasingly that seems to be a better way to understand things because of the action with loans between 1760 and 1761. This becomes a real powder keg.

2:15There's lineal Patriots by 1769 and 1770 among the Boston population and the British molten. That's in the case of the Boston economy isn't doing well and a lot of British military duty and work in civilian occupations. They can undercut Boston labeling them is because they're getting payments, verbs, military personnel as well, so they can earn less money from what VT jobs. Lots of tensions between colonial Boston dockworkers, Boston laborers, the British military. There's really builds to a head in the winter of 1770 in December. Secondly, leads to a concentration on where a large crowd and Muslims surrounds a small contingent evaluation routine. In this confusing mess and writing, someone seems to shout fire a little British, hear them shine fire.

3:00Several trips to filing with the class, showing five Bostonians and ROI and the three Blackman. This leads to a sense that something has happened and hadn't happened. Which is the British subject who the king and his army to fight other British Institute is indicating citizens of Boston who believe themselves to be eaten we British enabling water, and now they have to question whether France and the Catholic menace is really the biggest spectrum and what the needs are, whether it's their own cloud and they're alone. I wouldn't say that's a quantum. Well, the churn lobby was put on Millikan comes in later, but that's part of why the Townsend Acts places, I would argue is a severe escalation of the conflict and attention over with the staffing plans.