Final answer:
The claim that the nine British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were sentenced to death is false; only two were found guilty of manslaughter and were branded on their thumbs. so, option b is the correct answer.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement that the nine British soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were sentenced to death is false. After the incident on March 5, 1770, where British soldiers fired into a crowd killing five colonists, eight soldiers were tried for murder. With John Adams serving as their defense lawyer, the trials resulted in two soldiers being found guilty of manslaughter; rather than receiving a death sentence, they were simply branded on their thumbs. The Boston Massacre was a crucial event in American history that contributed to the growing resistance against British rule, and it highlighted tensions over British taxation and military occupation in the colonies.
The nine British Soldiers involved in the Boston Massacre were not sentenced to death.
The statement is False. In the trial that followed the Boston Massacre, only two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter, not all nine soldiers involved. These two soldiers were sentenced to branding on their thumbs, not death.