Question

The Boston Massacre was a response to

the stationing of British soldiers in Boston.


the dumping of British tea into Boston Harbor


American independence


the British seizure of the ship Liberty.

Answer 1

Answer: 1. the Townshend Acts,

2. British Troops Land in Boston to Maintain Order-1768.

3. The Boston Tea Party was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin's Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of tea, imported by the British East India Company into the harbor.

4. By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain. The Declaration summarized the colonists' motivations for seeking independence.

5. Hancock came into direct conflict with the British in 1768, when one of his merchant ships, the Liberty, was seized in Boston Harbor by British customs officials who claimed Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying the required taxes

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