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Events that led to the Boston Massacre. Since 1765 the people of Boston had been heading protests against British taxation, first against the Stamp Act and then in 1767 against the Townshend Acts.
The circumstances that marked the Boston massacre were due to the tension produced by the military occupation of Boston, when a group of soldiers began to shoot at a group of nobles who protested against the increase of the rates on the part of England.
The answer is: British soldiers shot at a crowd of rioters.