Boston Tea Party

Benedict Arnold was one of america's best american generals he was a general when the american revolution had started for us because the british had began to make the colonist pay taxes to pay for all of the rebuilding in cause of the war of 1812 when he had heard about these he had not liked it and he had stopped working for the Colonist and if it weren't for him then we had would all be speaking British because he had won us the battle of Saratoga and that battle had last 29 days he was a key…

which placed a levy on various English goods including lead, paint, and paper, the Sugar Act, and the Stamp Act had devastating effects on the entire colony’s population- especially threatening the wealth and prosperity of Massachusetts’ merchants. The Tea Act of 1773 particularly angered many colonists because it exempt the East India Company from navigation taxes; allowing them to undersell colonial merchants, and monopolize the entire…

saw this as an economic threat. On December, 1773 colonists from Boston would board disguised as Native Americans a ship and dump approximately 300 crates of tea into the sea. This would anger Great Britain which would retaliate by passing the coercive or intolerable acts in 1774. These acts were a disciplinary action taken by Britain in order to keep the colonies under control. It also closed down the ports in Boston, weakened the local governmental institutions and strengthened the British…

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…

In the early ‘700 while France was going through the Mississippi Bubble, in parallel Great Britain was going through the South Sea Bubble. The South Sea Company was founded in 1711 with the aim of detecting the British public debt, which amounted to 10 million pounds. The company bore the English public debt and in return received an annual interest paid by the state and the monopoly of trade with the Spanish colonies in South America. To finance the transaction, the company issued, in…

In the article “That’s Entertainment? Hollywood’s contribution to Anti Americanism Abroad” (2002), Michael Medved argues about the deceptive portrayal of the American society and lifestyle that is destructing the eyes and minds of people living abroad presented by the American entertainment industry. Michael Medved studied at Yale Law School and graduated with honors. He is a political commentator, well-known film critic, a regular writer for the US nowadays, and a progressive and conservative…

Disagreements over the ability of the American colonies to govern themselves and the unjust taxes lead to the war between the colonies and the British from 1765 to 1783. According to historians beliefs, there is one reason as to the motivation for the colonial elites and the ordinary citizens to participate in the American Revolution. This is true on the account of both groups vying for independence from Britain. Although the ordinary citizens such as women who are fighting for equal rights,…

Once the War of 1812 was declared over, many taxes on imported goods, or tariffs, were passed on the Americans. These tariffs were enacted to protect the American manufacturing businesses from the inexpensive manufactured British goods (Khan, “The Nullification Crisis”). Specifically, the Tariff of 1828, or most commonly known as the Tariff of Abominations, was passed in the years that followed the War of 1812 to protect the American businesses. This tariff defended products in the North from…

April, 1930. The coastline in Dandi, India is dotted with millions of people illegally extracting their own salt from the water, each feeling a mixture of triumph and fear. They have come together to protest the British salt laws, which they believe are wrong. But it is also understood that in doing so, many will face consequences. Civil disobedience is vital to bringing a positive change to society, under the circumstances of tyranny and/or discrimination. However, fear is induced by the danger…

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