Which answer best explains how the leaders of boston reacted to the boston massacre?

they literally fired back with guns of their own.

they protested by refusing to house british soldiers.

they blew it out of proportion to get the people angry.

they covered it up so that the public would not be scared.

They blew it out of proportion to get the people angry.

This is the answer coz I got it right on my test.

the ansewer is c They blew it out of proportion to get the people angry.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.