Massacre

In this video lesson we will be looking at the road to Revolution. The American Revolution was a political upheaval, 1765–1783, as the Thirteen American Colonies broke from the British Empire and formed the independent nation, the United States of America.

An incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five civilian men and injured six others.

The Townshend Acts were a series of acts passed beginning in 1767 by the Parliament of Great Britain relating to the British colonies in North America.