In the early 1700 s The colonies were ruled by the British laws, the governor of the colony was imposed by the King. in 1765 the English Parliament passed a law that stated that the colonists had to give housing to the English troops. In some cases the troops built rough encampments as houses but almost all the time they moved into the houses of the colonists. This angered the colonies because they saw it as another abuse of the Parliament. The troopers weren't happy because they were far away from their families they didn't pay them well.
In a cold evening of March, in 1770 when a soldier was looking for work the colonists angered and they followed the soldier as an angry mob. The colonists throwed rocks and snowballs to the soldier. The soldier got to his encampment and a captain and eight of his men went to help the trooper.
The colonists got more angry at every moment until a soldier felt so threatened that he opened fire, this shot encouraged the other soldiers to open fire and they killed Five colonists that had no chance to defend themselves from the armed soldiers.
The soldiers were put under arrest and charged by murder.
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