Townshend Acts

British executed, which included increased taxes on a number of items, the invention of “virtual representation”, and the corruption happening in the British government like multiple office holding and the implementation of “placemen”. All of these acts were examples of the British’s abuse of power, giving the colonists no choice but to be reliant on…

Among those who were murdered that night, all five of them were working men. The Massacre was one of the many events that stirred the colonists to protest the government and demand for justice. Many citizens became involved and were politicized to act. Hewes "turned out because of a sense of kinship with his ‘townsmen ' in danger; he stood his ground in defense of his rights; he was among the people who delegated on their behalf; he attended the trial, and, as he remembered it, by testifying"…

The Boston Massacre; A Bloody Night March 5th, 1770. It’s a cold, wintery night and the British Redcoats have set up camp right in the middle of Boston, Massachusetts to enforce more tax laws. A group of angry, drunken colonists gather around all sides of the British troops for a not so peaceful protest. Clunk. One of the colonists had thrown a wooden club and knocked a British soldier off his feet and onto the ground. “Fire!” Captain Preston Thomas exclaimed. What was the Boston Massacre…

Bruce Ingram Granger’s main argument throughout the article “The Stamp Act in Satire” is that the colonist’s disapproval of the Stamp Act is the force that unified the colonists the most before the revolution (granger, 1956, pg. 368). The article focuses on the effect that the Stamp Act had on the colonies in relation to each other, the press came together and published writings to voice their resistance to the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act brought the colonists together because they felt that the…

American Revolution:1759-1766” by Bernhard Knollenberg discusses. How it came to the American revolution. WIth major influences such as the tea act and some not so influential parts, but enough to move us towards the actions that got us here. In this book he doesn 't just focus on the main points like other books such as the Boston massacre, the Quartering act, he doesn 't even make a reference to the Declaration of Independence. Knollenberg goes into great detail and depth in the writing to…

My Mayflower ancestor is Isaac Allerton who was written to be a “proper saint,” meaning that he was a Leyden Separatist. He was a tailor in London at the time of his departure on the Mayflower. There are conflicting reports of Allerton’s age when he came over to the new world, which range from age 34 to 37. He boarded the Mayflower with his wife Mary, their three children, and his tailor apprentice, John Hooke. The individuals on the Mayflower were mostly farmers with limited resources to…

The Sons of Liberty are shrouded in secrecy and mystery, but they played a vital part in the pursuit of American Independence. The Sons of Liberty were established in Boston and New York through the guidance of Samuel Adams. The Sons of Liberty would meet under the cover of darkness to avoid detection from the British officials or Loyalists. The Sons of Liberty were seen as heroes or patriots by the Colonists but the British saw them as committing treason. The Sons of Liberty were right to…

In 1765 the Stamp Act was passed which upset my family and the rest of the colonists. This upset my family because we were already poor and this did not help us. This made the things we bought more expensive than what it was. They wants us to pay taxes because they want us to pay for the “French And Indian War”. If we wanted to send a letter to my Uncle Rick in Virginia we now have to buy a stamp to send a letter to him. Why are the British charging the colonies for the war? The British know…

Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts the Coercive Acts, to the outrage of American Patriots, on this day in 1774. The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea…

On March 5 1770, a famous event occurred called The Boston Massacre. English soldiers were sent to the United States to “maintain order”, which was an underlying problem for the Bostonians.The Boston Massacre was a tragic event that eventually led to the American Revolution. Overall, the problems that led up to The Boston Massacre were rooted in the colonial resentment that the Bostonians had for the English parliament. Many people who lived in Boston had “bad feelings” about the english…