Benjamin E. Bates

Almost every American knows something about the Boston Tea Party, but some people have a misunderstanding of the events occurring at that time in our country’s history and what lead the colonists to act the way they did toward the British government. The Tea Act of 1773 was supposed to benefit the colonists by lowering tax rates on tea. Instead of being content with this arrangement, the colonists were enraged. They felt it was unfair of England to make them pay taxes at all. The Tea Act did…

The English had many reasons for colonization, it would establish markets for their wool, access to raw materials and even their rivalry with Spain. “Discovering” new land would be the perfect opportunity for them to establish markets and to gain raw material, but there was one problem, who was going to live there. “The Chesapeake area, where the tobacco-producing colonies of Virginia for cheap labor, receive about 120,000 settlers, most of whom landed before 1660. New England attracted 21,000…

Freedom in America The word “freedom means the power to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.” This concept was first introduced in the New World when the Virginia Company launched a fleet of three ships toward the Chesapeake Bay to establish the first English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.” Over the course of time, many of the beliefs and actions that were acquired from the settlers, starting from Jamestown in 1608 and ending in 1776, created an important…

First it looked like that the American and French Revolutions had a lot in common but at the same time many difference. After all both American and French Revolution took place about the same time. Both took the challenge of republican government and the principles of liberty. The French Revolution and American Revolution were the reason why civilians started to rebel against their government. The French and Americans started to rebel against their government in a violent manner. During the…

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense, is a work that shows how many people felt during the late 1700’s. In this work, Paine advocates independence from Great Britain to the Thirteen Colonies. It was published anonymously during the beginning of the American Revolution, and instantly became a sensation among the colonists. Similarly, Anne Bradstreet’s poem, Here Follow Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House, July 10, 1666, portrays major Puritan beliefs of the 1600’s. Anne Bradstreet’s poem…

Martin Luther King Jr. was such an influential man that this article was solely dedicated to him and his vision. This article was written to honor the tenth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s. death. Ceaser Chavez wrote this article to specifically pinpoint Martin Luther Jr’s. vision of nonviolent resistance., how nonviolence is the better choice than violence. He goes on by saying that violence only brings death, chaos, more anger, and it never brings a contemporary solution to the problem…

The Scarlet Letter - Embroidering Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism Thread for an Early American World Riding the wave of heightened nationalism after the second independence war against Great Britain in 1812, Americans began to write their own school textbooks, celebrate the birth of American literature using American scenes and themes, and even establish their own American intellectual, philosophical, and social movements. One of these movements is the American transcendentalism…

In 1215, The Magna Carta was brought up in a field in England known as Runnymede. The Magna Carta was a charter that was targeted against the deranged king of England at the time, King John. The Archbishop of Canterbury wrote up the charter to make peace between King John and barons who despised him. Dan Jones explains the history of King John and the Magna Carta in an article he had wrote for the Smithsonian. In his article, “The Mad King and Magna Carta,” the author Dan Jones begins with a…

Ethan: So what is a Patriot? Cid: A Patriot is a person from the Thirteen Colonies who rebelled the British control. Ethan: What is a Loyalist? Cid: Loyalist were people who remained loyal to the British and lived in the Thirteen Colonies Ethan: Why did people become Patriots? Cid: Well people thought they were being treated unfairly by the British, because they were taxed without say by the British government. Cid: How many Patriots and Loyalists fought? Ethan: Most Patriots fought for…

Emerson and Thoreau spoke of their beliefs about how a person should live his/her life in a fulfilling manner in their essays. They convey that simplicity, independence/individuality, and that following one’s own instincts and ideas are key to a fulfilling life. Emerson and Thoreau think people should be simple but in modern America we are superficial and only care about material things. According to Thoreau, “Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man had hardly need to count more…