Visual Activity for Chapter 6

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Figure false: The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on March 5, 1770
Figure false: Paul Revere's mass-produced engraving shows the patriot version of events. Soldiers appear as a firing squad, shooting simultaneously at an unarmed and bewigged crowd; more likely the shooting was chaotic, and the fatalities were from lower classes who rarely wore wigs. Crispus Attucks, an African-Indian dockworker, was killed, but Revere depicts only whites among the injured. Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Providence, Rhode Island.
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READING THE IMAGE: How does this picture attempt to enlist its viewers' sympathies?

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CONNECTIONS: Does this picture accurately represent the events of the Boston Massacre? What might account for its biases?