The Boston Massacre and Tea Party

<p>The <strong>Boston Massacre</strong> was a confrontation on March 5, 1770, in which British soldiers shot and killed several people while being harassed by a mob in <a title="Boston" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston">Boston</a>. The event was heavily publicized by leading <a title= "Patriot (American Revolution)" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_(American_Revolution)">Patriots</a> such as <a title="Paul Revere" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Revere">Paul Revere</a> and <a title="Samuel Adams" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adams">Samuel Adams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> British troops had been stationed in the <a title= "Province of Massachusetts Bay" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay">Province of Massachusetts Bay</a> since 1768 in order to support crown-appointed officials and to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.</p> <p>The <strong>Boston Tea Party</strong> was an American <a title="Direct action" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_action#Violent_direct_action">political</a> and mercantile protest by the <a title="Sons of Liberty" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Liberty">Sons of Liberty</a> in <a title="Boston" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston">Boston</a>, <a title= "Province of Massachusetts Bay" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay">Massachusetts</a>, on December 16, 1773.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class= "reference"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> The target was the <a title="Tea Act" href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Act">Tea Act</a> of May 10, 1773, which allowed the