Read the attached chapter from Discovering the American Past: “What Really Happe

Read the attached chapter from Discovering the American Past: “What Really Happened in the Boston Massacre?: The Trial of Captain Thomas Preston.” The chapter will provide you with background about the tensions building between the American colonies and the British, cover the details of the Boston Massacre, give you a set of questions to consider, provide a collection of primary source evidence pertaining to the topic, and guide you through the process of considering the evidence. After reading the chapter, develop an answer to the question, “What actually happened in the Boston Massacre? And who was really to blame?”
For your assignment, you will turn in a one paragraph typed statement of your answer to that question and your notes on the key points and information from the reading that provides evidence of your answer (3-4 typed, single-spaced pages of notes). (They can be in the same document.)
You should use your own words to summarize the main ideas that support your answer; for particular key points you may quote short phrases from the primary source evidence using quotation marks and indicating the document title of the quote. This assignment is not a paper or essay; you may use bullet points to present your notes. But the reader of your notes should still be able to follow your ideas. I will walk you through some ideas for organizing your claims and supporting evidence.
The key is that you want to show what evidence from the primary source section of the chapter supports the conclusion that you reached about what really happened the night of the Boston Massacre.
Your assignment will be graded on the following criteria:
Does the paragraph statement present an answer to the question that fits with the 
historical evidence? 

Does the notes portion of the assignment contain evidence that proves the answer?
Is all 
the relevant evidence considered in the notes?
Do the notes indicate comprehension and analysis of main ideas from the readings?
Remember: notes should capture main ideas and key points – you do not need to re-write the chapter!