What happened during the boston massacre in 1770? a) british troops fired on colonists for the first time, killing five. b) redcoats and colonists opened fire on one another in a field outside boston where hundreds were killed. c) colonists opened fire on one another over disagreements about the british d) redcoats chases colonists into the water, causing six to drown.

The correct answer is A. During the Boston Massacre in 1770, British troops fired on colonists for the first time, killing five.

Explanation:

The Boston Massacre was a street skirmish that occurred on March 5, 1770 in Boston, the capital of the province of Massachusetts Bay, between the colonists and the English soldiers.

During the clash, the soldiers shot three and wounded eleven Bostonians, from which two could not recover from their wounds and died. This incident, which went down in American history as the "Boston massacre", ended with the removal of all the English military from the city. In 1888, an obelisk was erected in Boston to commemorate this event.

The Boston massacre was one of the climaxes of the confrontation between Britain and its North American colonies. It served as a signal for the equally legendary Boston Tea Party, and subsequently the American War of Independence.

answer: secession

secession, as it applies to the outbreak of the american civil war, comprises the series of events that began on december 20, 1860, and extended through june 8 of the next year when eleven states in the lower and upper south severed their ties with the union. the first seven seceding states of the lower south set up a provisional government at montgomery, alabama. after hostilities began at fort sumter in charleston harbor on april 12, 1861, the border states of virginia, arkansas, tennessee, and north carolina joined the new government, which then moved its capital to richmond, virginia. the union was thus divided approximately on geographic lines. twenty-one northern and border states retained the style and title of the united states, while the eleven slave states adopted the nomenclature of the confederate states of america.

explanation:

after the civil war, and with the termination of slavery, the south was faced with a big problem; what was supposed to happen and how they were supposed to deal with the freedom and the rights that black people and freed slaves had gained as a result of the north defeating the south and forcing the end of slavery. first, most, if not all, of the workforce of the south came from slaves and they did not have an option to replace the loss of said workforce. second, particularly in the south, people were convinced that black people were lesser, less intelligent, less capable and less smart than whites. this posed a huge problem for them. also, southerners were faced with another issue; freed slaves now had a say in how their lives would be lived and the right to politically choose the way they would be governed. people in the south did not want to accept this, none of this and this opposition and the conflicts that arose from it, not to mention the afereffects of the war, forced the congress of the time to enact and enforce the reconstruction plans that had been proposed by president andrew johnson.