when was the boston massacre trial date?
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John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial of 1770. As noted in the 2008 HBO mini-series chronicling the life and career of John Adams (1735-1826), as a young lawyer the future president served as counsel for the defense in the trial of eight British soldiers accused of murder during a riot in Boston on March 5, 1770.
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Battle of Bunker Hill: June 17, 1775 Prescott's men were now low on ammunition, though, and when the Redcoats went up the hill for a third time, they reached the redoubts and engaged the Americans in hand-to-hand combat. The outnumbered Americans were forced to retreat.
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['October 18, 1748. Government and Politics. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. ... ', 'August 08, 1759. Government and Politics. ... ', 'June 28, 1769. Government and Politics. ... ', 'September 11, 1784. Government and Politics. ... ', 'June 03, 1799. Government and Politics. ... ', 'September 20, 1810. People. ... ', 'June 14, 1811. People. ... ', 'August 13, 1814. People.']
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The Sons of Liberty were a citizens' group that was organized in all cities in the American colonies to protest the Stamp Act in the 1760's. ... Though it was no more than a riot, Americans named it the Boston Massacre to show everyone the dangers of having troops stationed among colonists.
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The Boston Massacre. Coined the “Fatal Fifth of March,” the massacre was used as propaganda by patriots to bring people to their side against British tyranny. The use of it as propaganda caused the Boston Massacre to stand out against the many events that led to the American Revolution.
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['Jan 1, 1778. Watson and the Shark, John Singleton Copley. ... ', 'May 5, 1789. Beginning of French Revolution. ... ', 'Jan 1, 1792. A Vindication of the Rights of Women- Mary Wollstonecraft. ... ', 'Jan 1, 1793. Death of Marat, Jacques-Louis David. ... ', 'Jan 1, 1794. Fishermen at Sea, JMW Turner. ... ', 'Jan 1, 1798. ... ', 'May 18, 1804. ... ', 'May 23, 1810.']
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Tom Robinson's trial takes place in 1935. This trial is fashioned after two trials: The first one is that of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama, a trial which took place in 1931 and a trial in which Harper Lee's father was involved. Around the time of the 1920's, Mr.
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In June of 1692, the special Court of Oyer (to hear) and Terminer (to decide) sat in Salem to hear the cases of witchcraft. Presided over by Chief Justice William Stoughton, the court was made up of magistrates and jurors. The first to be tried was Bridget Bishop of Salem who was found guilty and was hanged on June 10.
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The trial of Tom Robinson begins in Chapter 17 and ends in Chapter 21. In Chapter 17, Sheriff Tate and Bob Ewell take the witness stand. Tate describes the location of Mayella's injuries, and Bob claims that he witnessed Tom Robinson raping his daughter.
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As 1692 passed into 1693, the hysteria began to lose steam. The governor of the colony, upon hearing that his own wife was accused of witchcraft ordered an end to the trials. However, 20 people and 2 dogs were executed for the crime of witchcraft in Salem.
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Although Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984, prosecutors pursued the death penalty for Dzhokhar on a federal level—he is only the third person to have the death penalty be passed down on a federal level. In June 2015, a jury sentenced Dzhokhar to death for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Private Hugh Montgomery was the first British soldier to fire in the Boston Massacre. According to many historic documents, he was also identified by many witnesses in the trial as the man who killed Crispus Attucks.
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The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed and this led to a campaign by speech-writers to rouse the ire of the citizenry.
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The Boston Massacre occurred on March 5, 1770 when British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a group of American colonists killing five men. This was a tax on paper ONLY for when people chose to buy the item. It was imposed on the colonist by the British to help pay for the French and Indian War.
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Repeal of the Townshend Acts Tensions between the colonists and British troops finally boiled over on March 5, 1770, when British soldiers shot into an angry mob, killing five American colonists in an event known as the Boston Massacre. ... All of the Townshend Acts—except for the tax on tea—were repealed in April 1770.