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Paul Revere’s The Bloody Massacre
The Bloody Massacre was the one of the only depictions of the massacre that most colonists saw outside of Boston. It was distributed widely through broadsides, almanacs, and newspapers.

1. How would the colonists have reacted to this image and text? Why?

Answer 1

Answer: The tension between the colonists and British would have grown as a result of this image. The colonists are portrayed innocently as the British fire at them. The British troops are smiling at the deaths of colonists and the colonists appear to have no defenses. This is a propaganda that purposely paints the British to look extremely bad. Though the colonists attacked the British before they fired, this image leads others to believe that it was the British who attacked first for no apparent reason. This would result in excess tension between the colonists and British because the colonists would have believed the British fired first based on this image.

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