Crispus Attucks

Let’s face it, our forefathers were brilliant salesmen. Their idea that any person, from anywhere, no matter their social status, can achieve the American dream spread like a wildfire helping to build this country into the superpower it is today. There are many ideas of what the American dream is, but the most popular is the one that goes something like…after x amount of years of hard work, a poor person turns $1.50 into a multi-billion dollar corporation. This popular long shot story has been…

“I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat” (Wheatley, 24-25). This line from well-known poem To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, tells the first part of Phillis Wheatley’s remarkable story. Brought to America as a young child, Wheatley became of the first to display African people’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual ability. Though her life was short and sad, it was a testimony of African American talent to the whites of her day…

The American Revolution did not just begin out of thin air with the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. There were many acts, both by the British and the American colonists, which led up to the eventual signing of the document. From the French and Indian War, taxation on the colonists, the Boston Massacre and the Boston Tea Party all played a major role in determining the fate of the colonies. The French and Indian War, known also as the 7 Years’ War, was primarily a…

and The Boston Tea Party all three of these events were unsettling. This all started with the Boston Massacre, one of the reasons of the tension between us was the competition for jobs between us colonists and those poorly paid soldiers. Then Crispus Attucks and four other men were shot during this protest, why would the British do that? Attack us defenseless citizens when really we did nothing…

The African American Fight for Freedom In the early 1700s, many Africans had been abducted from their homeland, enslaved in the United States, and had no legal rights. Even once the idea of ending oppression led to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, these rights only applied to white citizens and not people of color. African-Americans during this time desired freedom and human rights above all else, and they fought valiantly during the American War for Independence for these rights. The…

of hatred to begin against the British. A crowd of colonists went up to 8 British troops and started to insult and threaten them. The British troops decided to shoot the crowd which killed 5 colonists. The first death also belonged to called Crispus Attucks. The Boston Massacre was used as propaganda against the British which increased British hate a lot more. ("Boston Massacre." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 13 Aug. 2017. school.eb.com/levels/middle/article/Boston-Massacre/317845.…

The American Revolution was a war that started in 1775 and last until 1783. The armed conflict was fought between Great Britain and the thirteen colonies over the colonies statement of liberty. Initially, the American Revolution was provoked by the principle of equality, but as the colonists gained insight equality came to be seen as not enough and colonists started demanding liberty. The thirteen colonies experienced several events that ultimately led to the American Revolution. After the…

One of the most known events in history to happen in Boston . The only event ever to happen like this. The one historical event that earned the title of the incident on king street named by the British personally. The one event where British soldiers were ready too fire and attack while the opposing side the colonists, were prepared to strike and defend their beloved town and keep it the way they intended to have it from the veary begining. The event where you would be terrified imagine it…

The Revolutionary era took place from 1763-1789. There were many key military people in this era. King George lll was the ruler of Great Britain. George Washington was the commander of Continental Army. William Howe was the commander in chief of British Army in North America. Henry Knox was an American general. Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy. John Burgoyne was a British general who surrendered to American general Horatio Gates. Baron Friedrich Von Steuben was a German…

The Boston Massacre, by Paul Revere, successfully conveyed this message. The Boston Massacre generated a spark of support from settlers in New England by purposely leaving out the black man that got killed during the massacre, Crispus Attucks. Revere did not include Attucks in the picture because the American society did not perceive black people as people. The American society credited a dead black man with just as much as pathos as a living black man. In 1773, Phillis Wheatley spoke out about…