BOSTON, BLOODY, BOSTON

10 thoughts on “BOSTON, BLOODY, BOSTON”

  1. This video was very informative. It’s crazy to think about why some things the education boards are including and excluding from the curriculum. A lot of this stuff I did not know about life for the colonist and the events leading to the revolution.

  2. This video shows all of the key details regarding the Revolution that I didn’t learn in high school. Surprising, but true. My teacher did not discuss those things with the class.

  3. This video depicts great detail of what led up to the American Revolution. I remember learning about it these events in high school and now I’m learning about it again because of this video

  4. I love this video for the simple fact that it was so descriptive and informative of the events leading towards the revolution. Many things that were explained i had no idea, which goes to show how many things are watered down in history classes and history books. I always thought the Boston massacre was Boston killing others for no good reason when in reality they were only protecting themselves.

  5. the details better paint the picture of everything that led from one event to the next three battles were bloody and serious on both sides they really didn’t want a war but that’s what it was leading towards as many dead

  6. I like this video in particular because it was able to show all the important events that lead to the Revolution. It also gave me in-site on the Boston Massacre that i had not know before. This video was able to show us how the British parliament treated the colonist and gave us the ability to see the side of the colonist, and ultimately why they acted out in the ways that they did. From this video i learned what the Boston massacre really was, how it was just the British soldiers protecting themselves, yet was told in such a different light by the colonist.

  7. This video was able to portray both the thoughts and ideals of the Colonists and British parliament prior to the American revolution very well.The ideas of parliament were since Britain spent a great amount of funding to protect the colonies in the 7 years war, the colonists should repay the motherland by being taxed. They also depicted the Boston massacre as not even a massacre, but merely British soldiers protecting themselves from violent protesters. However, the ideas of the colonists were that they have been given taxation without the proper representation and Britain’s King George III has turned into a tyrant and is unfit to rule a place 3,000 miles away. The video also showed how the perspective of the colonists and how Paul Revere interpreted the Boston massacre as a literal massacre of unarmed colonists being slaughtered by British soldiers. I also learned from this video that Benjamin Franklin’s son, William Franklin, was the one who held the kite in Benjamin Franklin’s experiment on electricity.

  8. This video in particular explains the events in a descriptive way that it allowed to better understand the events that led up to the revolution. Also, it provided me with some details I was not aware of before, such as how the Boston massacre was portrayed as a massacre by this image created by Paul Reviere, but in reality it was not a massacre as the image demonstrated it to be. Overall, this video really answered my questions as to how the American revolution even began.

  9. This video shows a lot of what was going on while the revolution was just beginning. Some of the topics that stuck out to me where that America didn’t trade with England as a response to the stamp-act, which was repealed in March of 1766, and as England kept generating new taxes, America would just keep revolting against them, which soon caused the arrival of British Parliaments. Also, Benjamin Franklin helped take down Thomas Hutchinson (Business man and loyalists politician of the Province of Massachusetts) by exposing his letters to Massachusetts which revealed his true thoughts on what England should do with the colony. Another fact that stuck out to me was that Benjamin Franklin’s son William Franklin, was against the rebellion (he wasn’t the only one), and that his mind couldn’t be changed by his father. I also didn’t know that William was the one to hold the kite in his father’s experiment of electricity.

Leave a Reply

Committed to investigating, examining, and representing the African-American male, men, and manhood by offering commentary regarding the status of Black Men and Black Manhood as it relates to African-American Manhood, Race, Class, Politics, and Culture from an educated and authentic African-American perspective aimed at improving the plight of African-American men and African-American Manhood in regards to Politics, Culture, Education, and Social Matters.