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Paul Revere’s print explains the brutal shooting of the British Soldiers towards the American citizen who were living in Boston under British Rule during the Boston Massacre. Paul Revere explains how violent the British Soldiers were by shooting unarmed American citizens creating one of most famous events in American History known as the Boston Massacre. One of the American civilians started the shooting because he threw an object towards the British Soldiers and hitting one of them which resulted in the massive shooting in Boston. I think the British might have bated the American civilians into fighting them because once own or several objects were thrown towards them, with one object hitting a British Soldier then the shooting started. One of the examples in the image shows the British Soldiers firing their guns straight towards the American civilians and men being shot and laying on the ground while others trying to get away from the shots being fired towards them. I think the Americans wanted to separate from the British because of the high taxes, loss of jobs, and British owning most of their land. In the image, the American civilians charged together as one because this showed a sign of unity of American trying to be united as one. This printed image by Paul Revere gives an American prospective as British Soldiers shooting at unarmed Americans causing one the most brutal and tragic events in Massachusetts and American History. I agree with Matthew Liivoja relating to North America’s Eastern Seaboard being fed up with British rule because they were trying to have a virtual monopoly within the Northeast through production, trade, and communities. Matt brings good points of how the American wanted to be united and start their own identity pulling away from the British. Americans wanted to create their own identity because they did not want to be like the British sibling in North America which resulted in unity within Americans in communities, religion, and economics. By 1776, the United States eventually became an independent nation and creating their own identity through commercial, economics, and colonies.