Getting to Know You
The Boston Massacre is an incident forever marked and remembered in history. Pretty much everybody has some sort of idea as to what happened or how it happened, including me. When I started this project, I felt like I knew a lot of what happened, but as I researched and looked further into the event I realized that I still had a lot to learn. When I first started my research I was confident in the fact that, the colonists had started an argument, but the soldiers shot, without really being enticed. When in reality both of those things were and are heavily debated and argued about. After doing a little bit of initial research I found the trials that occurred after to be especially interesting.
Before starting my research, I really did not have any idea about the trials. I knew that their had been trials and I was pretty sure that no one got convicted. I decided that the trials were what I wanted to focus on, because I didn’t know a lot about them, and they seemed really interesting. However, soon I found that there were actually two trials, one for the 8 British soldiers and one for their captain, Thomas Preston. Realizing that trying to accomplish both might be a lot, I decided to focus on the trial of Captain Thomas Preston. I am not just focusing on the trial but I choose to dig deeper and research what happened during the trial, and if it was biased in favor of Captain Preston.
{Captain Thomas Preston}
{1722-1798}
Before starting my research, I really did not have any idea about the trials. I knew that their had been trials and I was pretty sure that no one got convicted. I decided that the trials were what I wanted to focus on, because I didn’t know a lot about them, and they seemed really interesting. However, soon I found that there were actually two trials, one for the 8 British soldiers and one for their captain, Thomas Preston. Realizing that trying to accomplish both might be a lot, I decided to focus on the trial of Captain Thomas Preston. I am not just focusing on the trial but I choose to dig deeper and research what happened during the trial, and if it was biased in favor of Captain Preston.
{Captain Thomas Preston}
{1722-1798}