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The Boston Tea Party The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by a secret organization referred to as the Sons of Liberty, which was created in the thirteen American colonies. Its purpose was to protect the rights of the colonists and fight the British against taxation. This resulted in the British passing Coercive Acts to punish the colonists for the protests, which further pushed the Americans into war with the British. However, there is a debate upon whether the colonials or the British…

Del Borgo’s variations are based on William Billings’ patriotic hymn Chester. Primarily a self-trained musician, Billings is considered the most prominent composer from the First New England School. Blind in one eye and with uneven legs, the Boston native was a leather tanner by trade. As a teenager, Billings took music lessons from a local choirmaster and by the age of twenty-two, Billings had become a well-respected singing school teacher. At the age of twenty-four, Billings published the…

Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of seventeen children born to Josiah Franklin and Abiah Folger. His father wanted him to attend school but did not have the money. Franklin attended for two years, but did not pass. At the age of twelve, he went to become an apprentice to his brother printing. When Franklin was 15 his brother James founded the first truly independent print shop in the colonies. When his brother was jailed for talking negatively…

The colonies have always been closely connected to Britain. However, with the recent events like high taxation with no representation, I know it is time to seek independence so this unjust treatment ends. We have tried to confront Britain about their unjust treatment to no avail. They seem to hold no value in their connection to the colonies, yet they do not realize our product will still sell without them. So to get the fair treatment we deserve, it is necessary to seek independence from…

Charles tiffany was born on February 15, 1812, in killingly Connecticut. He went to a district school in an academy in Plainfield Connecticut, when he turned 15 he helped manage a small store with his father who was the owner of a cotton manufacturing company. In 1837 Charles tiffany and his friend john B. Young went to New York with $1000 dollars that Charles father lent to him and opened a small gift shop selling jewelry and silverware. During this time of his life on November 30, 1839 Charles…

:Ladies and gentlemen! it is a pleasure and a wonderful privilege to be here with you today. Today we will honor the work Mr. Elias Howe put in this world by inventing the sewing machine, there are many other wonderful inventors that invented other types of sewing machines, we should thank him for their work too. Thank you for being here everyone please relax and enjoy the speech! Mr. Elias Howe was born in Spencer Massachusetts, he was schooled at a local school with his brother Amasa, he…

Magna Carta 1. It was commonly held that king John was the worst king of medieval England, there were several reasons for this. He had imprisoned his former wife, starved his opponents and allegedly murdered his nephew. On top of that he had imposed heavy taxes on his barons. 2. The reason he taxed his barons so severely was to pay for his expensive foreign wars. If they refused to pay these taxes he would punish them and even seize their property. 3. The barons reacted by demanding that…

Ben Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. Ben had 16 brothers and sisters. Ben wanted to write for the paper with his brother, he was very successful with his job. Ben decided to turn to science and become an inventor. He invented the heat efficient stove. It was used to heat up houses. The stove helped improve society. Ben franklin also was the first person to invent the swim fins. Ben loved to swim and he wanted to find a way to make it easier to swim. First he invented wooden…

Our nation was built by the hands of some pretty impressive men. These men wanted freedom in the colonies from the oppression of England. Fifty six men created and signed the Declaration of Independence which gave voice to their desire for freedom. These are four of the people who wrote the document that our country would be founded on. According to the website www.encyclopedia.com, Robert Morris was born in Liverpool, England in 1734 and died in 1806. When he was thirteen, he joined his…

James Cook, the British navigator and explorer, rose from humble beginnings to become the most legendary seaman of his time. Moreover, he discovered and accurately charted the entire coastline of New Zealand and the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and he was also the first person to explore the Antarctic region. Born on 27th October 1728, at Marton-in-Cleveland, Yorkshire, James Cook was the son of a Scottish farm worker, and he spent most of his childhood on a farm near Great Ayton, where he…