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    England states and is very important to the history of America and is a relatively wealthy state. Massachusetts had the thirteenth-highest gross state product in 2005. Although this state is very small, it is one of the most populated states in the US. Boston is the state capital and the largest city with a very important seaport. Massachusetts is also the homes to some of the most important people in our history today like John Adams, Paul Revere, John Quincy Adams, George H. W. Bush.…

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    Diversity In Boston Today

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    community where you are supposed to be a type of way.Imagine coming into the country and most people hating you because you are muslim. There is this big diversity in the city of Boston, Muslims and Immigrants communities are being discriminatory against because of their “history” around the world and in the country. In Boston today, there is exceedingly discrimination…

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    The son of a Huguenot silversmith . Paul at nineteen assumed artistic responsibility for the family’s shop. Born in January 1, 1735 he took part in the Boston tea party and was the principal rider for Boston’s committee of safety. He devised a system of lanterns for the minutemen to learn if the British would be attacking them. By all accounts, the young Revere was a serious and committed artisan. He joined a member of a widely distributed secret order and…

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    ‘City Upon an Hill’ – When John Winthrop gave his “City Upon a Hill” sermon, the Puritans were still making their way toward the New World. During this time, the Puritans were escaping pressures in England and wished to be able to practice their religion and live under their ideals without the oppression they faced in the Old World. Winthrop’s sermon allowed the Puritans to remain hopeful about their future endeavors in the New World and that their efforts would not be lost. Furthermore, this…

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    Dbq Ap Us History

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    George Washington was a General before a president. Without him we would not have the Navigation Act, The French and Indian War, The battle of Bunker Hill. The battle of Trenton, and The Boston massacre. The Pontiac’s Rebellion, The Sugar Act, and The Stamp Act, The Declaratory Act, The Townsend Act, The Boston Tea party, And the Intolerable Act. These will all lead up to the Navigation Act. Between 1650 and 1696 a parliament passed a new Navigation Act. This parliament limited colonial trade…

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    The Boston Tea Party was a political protest on December 16, 1773 that represented the rebellion of the colonies from Great Britain. It was predominantly caused by the colonists’ opposition to being taxed without being represented in Parliament. Britain had placed a tax on the colonists’ tea; this caused the tension between the colonists and Great Britain to rise until it came to a head in the Boston massacre and soon led to the Boston Tea Party. Tea had been frequently imported to the colonies…

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    took place during the 1700’s. One of these acts was the Boston Tea Party. This occurred on December 16th, 1773 and consisted of over a hundred Sons of Liberty, dressed as Native Americans, who dumped 342 chests (92,000lbs) worth of tea into the Boston harbor. This resulted in Parliament’s passing of the five Intolerable Acts. These Intolerable Acts were unjustified because there were much better and more fair ways to have dealt with the Boston Tea Party at the time. One of the five Intolerable…

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    sometimes does make a change, but why don’t not take action and try doing, instead of speaking. To be honest, it is going to take you a long time to just speak your opinion and have it be done. That's not how the world works. Some people think that the Boston Tea Party was an actual tea party where you, sat down and drank tea. However, there's way more to this tea party. It all started with a group of men called The Sons Of Liberty. Why did they get in trouble? They got in trouble because they…

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    customs house. The soldiers have just come in to Boston from out of another city, and the tensions are very very high between the soldiers and the natives of Boston. With all of these tensions a guard describes his experience of him guarding the customs house late at night during winter when a mob quickly appears and advances on him and the other guards that have shown up as the mob has. Then someone yells fire as bells are ringing and the Boston massacre happens in front of the men. Next in…

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    not the people you want to chose. Well first of all they cause a lot of tension between us, such as The Proclamation of 1763 and how those dumb rules were cast upon us, that wasn’t a very fun time and don’t even get me started with The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party those were horrible acts played on us, that was the moment where we couldn’t tolerate them any longer. When the Proclamation of 1763 was issued that really made us angry because of all the unnecessary enforcements put…

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