A range of cultural, religious, and racial ideologies were used to justify imperialism, including Social Darwinism, nationalism, the concept of the civilizing mission, and the desire to religiously convert indigenous populations.
I can't really see the answers you've provided if you did but, i wrote an essay kind of thing on captain thomas preston's account of the boston massacre here are some parts of it.
the source was created on 1770, considered a primary source, it was written because he wanted to prove his innocence to the jurors. the author's purpose was so because the daughters of the revolution wanted to re-open the case. according to his source the soldiers started the boston massacre they started to fire without order, and that the mob yelled fire, meaning an actual fire.
plus from what I've written, i personally believe the colonists started the boston massacre because, <span>as stated by Captain Thomas a
First-hand account, they started taunting them and throwing snowballs along
with other objects because they did not want the British regulars in their
town. The commending officer ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the
guard outside the building which they were having a meeting in, after the
colonists attacked the soldiers one rifle shot into the crowd to the other
soldiers began firing moments later. Five colonists were dead three more were
injured while the british soldiers were put on trail only two were found guilty
of man slaughter and their thumbs were branded with an ‘M’ for murder as
punishment. I believe this could have been prevented if the soldiers were not
outside fixing their guns at that time. And had the British parliament had not
taken over american taxation measures in boston, the british should’ve stayed over in britian. </span>
It led to inflation
Since the value of money was based on gold and silver and since Spain got a lot of gold and silver, the money started losing value rapidly and it led to an inflation. Inflation is when money loses value so you need more money to pay for things that were cheaper before when money held higher value. They basically over-saturated the economy with gold and silver.
The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time (18:18 GMT).
