Boston Tea Party

It had helped the British’s sale in tea because the East India Company was still in shock of the downfall in money. Us as colonists looked at it as “No taxation without representation.” This Act had made us irritated, especially John Hancock because he couldn’t make enough money to afford…

The Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence to ensure the prosperity and survival of the colonies and everyone living in them. The Declaration included many things the king had done that greatly angered the colonists. One of the grievances listed in the Declaration of Independence is: "For imposing taxes on us without consent." This quote shows how the Declaration of Independence was affecting everyone because everyone pays taxes. Colonists were mad about taxes because British…

During the development of American society during the 1700s, the colonists worked closely with their British Government. Their partnership claimed the colonies as an extension of British soil and in turn gave Parliament and the British Monarchy authority over this land. For many years this partnership was a profitable one but as the evolution of American society was happening, another evolution happening in Europe. A movement called the Enlightenment was radically making its way through European…

The American Revolution was unavoidable, In 1765 the American Revolution began and never stopped until 1783, the war was fought by the original 13 Colonies and Great Britain. George Washington led the colonies to the independence of Great Britain. Before the American Revolution so many other wars and issues that led up to the Revolution. Land ownership, Reaction to taxes, Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine’s messages, are some of the causes that made the Revolution inevitable. Long before the…

The United States: Democracy or Aristocracy? Following the American Revolution, Americans fell under the economic tension resulting from the discontinued trade with their main trade partner, England, and many Americans doubted their republic’s ability to recover from this economic struggle. Furthermore, rebellions in Massachusetts in 1786 led the states to recognize the turmoil they would soon endure if nothing reparative occurred. In response to this crisis, each state sent delegates to meet…

The Continental Congress was created to govern the colonies while trying to keep it secret. There was two Congresses before and during the Revolutionary War. Both times they met they naturally talked about the problems at hand and what to do to oppose them. For example taxes,British government,and other major events like war . If you know little about the continental army,First Continental Congress, and the second Continental Congress then keep reading. You may learn something new. The First…

American colonists and the policies of Great Britain, the colonists were justified in waging war against Great Britain. Firstly, one of the biggest complaints the colonists had was about being taxed unfairly. With such Acts as the Stamp Act and the Tea Act, the colonists became more and more upset with the taxation of everyday necessities. In document 2, an excerpt from Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania by John Dickinson, Dickinson explains his feelings about…

in which most important decision was probably to make George Washington the leader of the army besieging Boston. Ethan Allen – One of the leaders who captured British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point in 1775. Benedict Arnold – The other leader who captured British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point using a surprise attack. Bunker Hill/Breeds Hill – Battle that took place in Boston that involved heavy losses of the British due to poor planning involving the British making a…

his most profound reasoning was when Jefferson said that King George “took away their charters and altering fundamentally the forms of our government.” For example, “when the Tea Act of 1773 passed and the Bostonian threw the tea overboard, Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, which completely closed the ports of Boston and altered Massachusetts’s government, enabling royal officials to govern the colony.” To elaborate, Thomas Jefferson was very fed up with the…

During the time of the settlements in the New World, France was the latest country to begin to settle in North America. This gap between the British and Spaniards arriving and the French arriving gave them the opportunity to explore and claim more land before the French had even come to America. Also during the time that the French ventured over the seas their country was in turmoil. The French settlers also had few reasons to wish to travel to the colonies. Their colonial government was…