EXAMPLE On March 5, 1770, a crowd of Boston boys and men surrounded a number of British soldiers and began
taunting and cursing them while they pelted them with snowballs. Order quickly broke down, and the
frightened soldiers fired into the crowd. When the shooting ended, several people were dead and more
were wounded. This engraving by Paul Revere, a leader of the Boston Sons of Liberty, was sent throughout
the colonies in the following weeks to arouse anti-British feelings.
4. (How does the engraving tell a different story from the above description of the Boston
massacre?