American Revolution spies

on tea to encourage many Americans to buy it. This act was also issued to avoid Americans to disobey the law, but some Americans still smuggled a large portion of Dutch tea into England, even with the tax reduced. Due to the smuggling, Lord North gave the East India Company, permission to sell tea directly to some merchants in certain colonial cities, cutting out the British middlemen. As the news reached the colonies, many people thought it was a trap for the Americans to buy more taxed tea,…

up to the American Revolution?” The American Revolutionary War began on the 19th of April 1775 and ended on the 3rd of September 1783. The main cause of the revolution was the dissatisfaction the colonists had with British rule, mostly due to the taxation without representation. Many events are considered main factors in the lead up to the revolution such as the implementation of the Sugar Act (1764) and The Boston Massacre (1770), but the event that was the turning point of the American…

modern historians and early Americans have viewed the causes and ideology of the American Revolution. Lynd and Waldstreicher claim that the main contentions are whether the Americans…

Traditionally, the depiction of our American forefathers regards them as individuals who were relentless concerned with structuring a solid platform of laws rooted upon coordinated logic and practical ideals. However, Jack Rakove’s theory says otherwise. He retaliates his position through series of elaborated material and reasoning to support his thesis. In Jack Rakove’s article “‘The Great Compromise’: Drafting the American Constitution” he elaborates on the notion of the well-regarded…

Freedom… Independence… Red,white, and blue. Can you guess what day it is? That’s right, you guessed it,it’s the Fourth of July. It’s the day we remember what a marvelous country we live in. The day the whole house smells amazing. The day we wear red, white, and blue to show how much we love our country. The day everyone's jolly with their families, celebrating our freedom and liberty. Well for me it was the day that i'll never forget, but not in the way you think. It was the best feeling waking…

The idea of revolution is generally regarded as a controversial idea. In today’s times especially, we tend to have differing views of the concept, depending on who is revolting against what. Many American citizens tend to view their revolution against the British government as a noble and just fight for liberty, yet refuse to allow marginalized groups within their own society to fight for their rights which they still have not been given, in particular people of color, women, and the LGBTQ+…

The speech we have here is in the moment in Daniel O’Connell ´s life when he was defending his idea to the Parliament. At that moment the King was William the IV, who ruled for few years (from 1830 to 1837) who Daniel O´Connell mentions in the speech when he says: “I regret much that I have been thrown upon arguing this particular question, because I should have liked to have dwelt upon the speech which has been so graciously delivered from the throne today -- to have gone into its details, and…

The British caused many deaths and Indians suffered a lot from being under the British government and was hard for them to live a normal life while having British men roaming the streets. While the British want India's goods and want to make profit off of their cash crops. The British first came to India in the 1600s while the British East India Company started setting up trading posts in Bombay, Madras, and Calcutta. The British East India Company quickly took advantage of the growing weakness…

Vietnam was Ho Chi Minh’s goal since he started the revolution. The editors believed that Ho Chi Minh’s speech helped unite Vietnam. In this article the editors used an introduction paragraph to summarize the steps leading up to Ho Chi Minh’s speech. The rest of the article was structured with the actual text that Ho Chi Minh used in his speech. The editors explained that Ho Chi Minh wrote this in August of 1945, during the Vietnam Revolution. It was a speech supporting the new Vietnamese…

The Abolition of the English Department establishes a lot of important details that, even though are happening across the globe, are similar to the current status of the American Continent. This side of the planet is being strongly influenciated by the United States of America; this cultural immersion of the United States or other metropolis is happening not only to U.S. territories, but in all Central and South America, and in the Caribbean. It can be seen in the Drown Collection by Junot…