Johnson's Democratic superiors were election casualties, so he became minority leader. In the fall 1954 elections, the Democrats had regained control of the Senate, and when the Senate convened in 1955, Johnson became majority leader. It was a dizzyingly fast climb.
the American colonists were angered by the presence of British soldiers who had found deployment in America. This led to the Boston Massacre, which tightened the tension between the colonists and Britain even more
