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1770年3月5日,一名士兵向人群。六年后,美国的开国元勋们想起了“波士顿惨案”,因为他们宣布从英国独立。为什么?为了回答这个问题,我们必须闪回到1767年。急于恢复花费捍卫殖民地在法国和印度的战争,英国颁布了一系列常见的英国税进口叫汤森法案。此前,英美关系的特点是有益的忽视,这意味着贸易法规和税收很少执行。新税等常见的商品茶和纸做殖民者愤怒。他们不代表在英国议会。为什么他们应该征税,好像他们都是英国公民?在1770年初的殖民者,包括革命组织的儿子自由,把他们的不满向商人继续股票商品进口的英语。 They posted signs on those merchants’ shops branding them as importers. On February 22 Ebenezer Richardson, a neighbor of one of those merchants, shot and killed an 11-year-old boy who was part of a mob harassing him for trying to take down the sign. The child’s death sparked a week of riots—and when a handbill posted on March 5 claimed that the British soldiers were preparing to defend themselves, the rioters’ anger intensified. That day a crowd of 50 or 60 people gathered outside the Customs House, harassing the one British sentry outside. When a few reinforcements joined him, the crowd—emboldened by the fact that the soldiers weren’t legally allowed to shoot unless they’d read the Riot Act—dared them to fire their weapons. Panicked, one did; others followed. As the smoke cleared, three of the crowd were dead, and two more, wounded, would die later. Both sides tried to control the narrative. But while the British soldiers ultimately went free, branding the event a massacre fueled the flames of colonial discontent far outside Boston—and set the stage for the American Revolution to come.