✧ They open fired because the colonists were throwing things, insulting them, and pretty much getting extremely violent, so they open fired because they felt threatened and at risk for their lives. Yet this wasn't the only brawl. There were many before this but they lead up to this.
✧ The reason the crowd was so angry and the brawl started was because days before a boy was shot by a British loyalist, who accidently shot him when being attacked by a mob.
The second great awakening was a large-scale religious movement in the United States that brought about more awareness on issues such as temperance and slavery. <span />
Castro nationalizes all foreign assets in Cuba, hikes taxes on U.S. imports, and establishes trade deals with the Soviet Union. President Dwight D. Eisenhower