Question: What consequence of the Townshend Acts resulted in the deaths of five people by British soldiers?
Context: The Virginia Association was a series of non-importation agreements adopted by Virginians in 1769 as a way of speeding economic recovery and opposing the Townshend Acts.  Drafted by George Mason and passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1769, the Virginia Association was a way for Virginians to stand united against continued British taxation and trade control.  The Virginia Association served as the framework and precursor to the larger more powerful Continental Association. The Falls Curfew, also called the Battle of the Falls (or Lower Falls), was a British Army operation during 3–5 July 1970 in the Falls district of Belfast, Northern Ireland.  The operation began as a search for weapons in the staunchly Irish nationalist district.  As the search ended, local youths attacked the British soldiers with stones and petrol bombs and the soldiers responded with CS gas.  This quickly developed into gun battles between British soldiers and the Irish Republican Army (IRA).  After four hours of continuous clashes, the British commander sealed off the area, which comprised 3,000 homes, and imposed a curfew which would last for 36 hours.  Thousands of British troops moved into the curfew zone and carried out house-to-house searches for weapons, while coming under intermittent attack from the IRA and rioters.  The searches caused much destruction, and a large amount of CS gas was fired into the area.  Many residents complained of suffering abuse at the hands of the soldiers.  On 5 July, the curfew was brought to an end when thousands of women and children from Andersonstown marched into the curfew zone with food and groceries for the locals. The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America.  The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.  Historians vary slightly as to which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five acts are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act (1767), the Commissioners of Customs Act (1767), the Vice Admiralty Court Act (1768), and the New York Restraining Act (1767).  The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.  The Townshend Acts (1767) were met with resistance in the colonies, prompting the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which eventually resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770. The Glenanne gang or Glenanne group was a secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists, mostly from Northern Ireland, who carried out shooting and bombing attacks against Catholics and nationalists during the Troubles, beginning in the 1970s.  Most of its attacks took place in the "murder triangle" area of counties Armagh and Tyrone.  It also launched some attacks elsewhere in Northern Ireland and in the Republic of Ireland.  The gang included British soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR), police officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), and members of the Mid-Ulster Brigade of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).  Twenty-five British soldiers and police officers were named as purported members of the gang.  Details about the group have come from many sources, including the affidavit of former member and RUC officer John Weir; statements by other former members; police, army and court documents; and ballistics evidence linking the same weapons to various attacks.  Since 2003, the group's activities have also been investigated by the 2006 "Cassel Report", and three reports commissioned by Irish Supreme Court Justice Henry Barron, known as the "Barron Reports".  A book focusing on the group's activities, "Lethal Allies: British Collusion in Ireland", was published in 2013.  It drew on all the aforementioned sources, as well as Historical Enquiries Team investigations. Prior to the American Revolution, the British began taxing American colonies to raise revenue.  South Carolina residents were outraged about the 1767 Townshend Acts that taxed tea, paper, wine, glass, and lamp oil.  To protest the earlier 1765 Stamp Act, South Carolina sent wealthy rice planter Thomas Lynch, 26-year-old lawyer John Rutledge, and Christopher Gadsden to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress, held in New York.  Other taxes were removed in 1766, but tea taxes remained.  Soon South Carolinians confiscated the tea that arrived at Charleston Harbor and stored it in the Exchange and Customs House.  It was later sold to help pay for the Revolution. The Boston Massacre, known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers shot and killed people while under attack by a mob.  The incident was heavily publicized by leading Patriots, such as Paul Revere and Samuel Adams, to encourage rebellion against the British authorities.  British troops had been stationed in Boston, capital of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, since 1768 in order to protect and support crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.  Amid ongoing tense relations between the population and the soldiers, a mob formed around a British sentry, who was subjected to verbal abuse and harassment.  He was eventually supported by eight additional soldiers, who were subjected to verbal threats and repeatedly hit by clubs, stones and snowballs.  They fired into the crowd, without orders, instantly killing three people and wounding others.  Two more people died later of wounds sustained in the incident. The Drummuckavall Ambush was an attack by the South Armagh Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on a British Army observation post southeast of Crossmaglen, County Armagh, along the border with the Republic of Ireland.  It occurred on 22 November 1975 and resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. Kevin Gerard Barry (20 January 1902 – 1 November 1920) was the first Irish republican to be executed by the British since the leaders of the Easter Rising.  Barry was sentenced to death for his part in an Irish Volunteers operation which resulted in the deaths of three British soldiers. The Massachusetts Circular Letter was a statement written by Samuel Adams and James Otis Jr., and passed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives in February 1768 in response to the Townshend Acts.  Reactions to the letter brought heightened tensions between the British Parliament and Massachusetts, and resulted in the military occupation of Boston by the British Army, which contributed to the coming of the American Revolution. "The Quartering Act" is a name given to a minimum of two Acts of British Parliament in the local governments of the American colonies to provide the British soldiers with any needed accommodations and housing.  It also required colonists to provide food for any British soldiers in the area.  Each of the "Quartering Acts" was an amendment to the Mutiny Act and required annual renewal by Parliament.William Winthrop, [Military Law and Precedents], (Government Printing Office 1920); "Quartering Act."  They were originally intended as a response to issues that arose during the French and Indian War and soon became a source of tension between the inhabitants of the Thirteen Colonies and the government in London, England.  These tensions would later fuel the fire that led to the American Revolution.
Answer: Boston Massacre