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Boston And Kent State Massacre Similarities
Comparing Boston & Kent State Massacre the two Hundred year difference.
There are similarities of Boston and Kent State Massacre event similarities, both of them brought something up with the government to make a large crowd of people, the Boston Massacre was started by a series of events included by civilians of colonist and soldiers trying to calm against the angry protesters. The Shootings of State University were a result of tensions between students and the Ohio National Guard, as the students where mad of the protested Vietnam war, The U.S. will start bombing in Cambodia, there were no orders to shoot the students but they killed 4 students anyways. The resemblance of the two massacres are like the same, both over the government, both


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