Who was Crispus Attucks?

• A. A colonist who signed the Declaration.
• B. The first casualty of the Boston Massacre.
• C. A British general at Saratoga.
• D. The author of The Federalist Papers.

Answer: (B)

Crispus Attucks is remembered as the first person killed in the Boston Massacre, occurring in 1770. He was a free Black or mixed-race dockworker whose death became a powerful symbol of colonial resistance to British rule and helped galvanize support for the American push toward independence. The other descriptions don’t fit who Attucks was—he didn’t sign the Declaration of Independence, he wasn’t a British general at Saratoga, and he didn’t author The Federalist Papers.