Use your textbook to decide if a statement is true or false. 1. Britain feared a rebellion so it sent more troops to Virginia.
2. Colonists called the British soldiers “redcoats.”
3. The British soldiers in Boston were polite and helpful.
4. On March 5, 1770, British troops opened fire on colonists in the streets of Boston.
5. Crispus Attucks, a British tax collector, was killed in the Boston Massacre.
6. Colonial leaders used the Boston Massacre as propaganda to turn the colonists against the British.
7. Parliament repealed all of the Townshend Acts except the tax on paper, because of the increased boycotts on British goods.