Chapter 5 Visions of Freedom

Submit your answers to these exercises as determined by your instructor.

The Boston Massacre, a 1770 engraving by Paul Revere produced less than a month after the event in which five colonists died.

Credits: Library of Congress

  1. How does Revere depict the British and colonists in this encounter, and who does he blame for the five colonists’ deaths?
  2. What attitude toward British authorities is Revere attempting to promote through this engraving?
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