Boston Massacre

To supress the riot English send like 4000 troops to control the riots , a group of colonists threw snowballs to soldiers that where guarding a custom house , the soldiers responded badly by firing the crowd.

* people didnt like soldiers , they killed 5 colonists in total .
* This was called the Boston Massacre , dated March 15th 1772

By 1773 colonists had comitees of correspondance this created colonial unity , the parliament backed down and took the troops back to England .

Within all British soldiers were tiral defended by John Adams a colonist in which helped so that the charges were removed , at the end only 2 soldiers had to respond to consequences , in which they had to whore a band on their thumb showing that they had comiteed murder .