Boston Tea Party

“Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own. The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them. This, sire, is our last, our determined resolution; and that you will be pleased to interpose with that efficacy which your earnest endeavors may ensure to procure redress of these our great grievances, to quiet the minds of your subjects in…

Revolutionary War told from numerous points of view throughout the novel. The book starts out with a man, who remains nameless, who is a part of the British military. The book describes a horrible ordeal that goes down in Boston, Massachusetts, which later you find out was the Boston Massacre. This event caused a great number of people on both opposing sides of the dispute to become frustrated. The British then began to place more and more taxes on the colonists. After the taxes were set in…

which lead to the Stamp Act of 1765 in which Parliament introduced new taxes on the colonies without more representation from the colonies in Great Britain’s affairs (Hewitt & Lawson, 2016). From there the British also enacted the Tea Act of 1773 which impacted the tea trade, to the benefit…

Salt in a clear hard grain.Salt was first used around 6050 BC.Salt has been used in many different and diverse ways, in fact some cultures look at salt as a magical power giver. Salt is also where we get the word (SALARY). In the revolutionary war in 1812, the British paid their soldiers with salt because they could not pay them with real money. Salt is pretty durable. It can withstand wear and tear but if it is crushed it turns to dust. Salt is portable because people can put it bags and carry…

The Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence on July 4,1776 to explain the colonists opinion on why they wanted to become independent from Great Britain. The reason the colonist wanted to be independent from Great Britain was because of the taxes that were being handed to the colonist for multiple reasons. The Declaration of Independence declared Americans three rights which are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. This document had been signed on July of 1776 and marked the…

There are many important things that happened in the American revolution, the most significant things are the stamp act which happened in Oct 19, 1765. There is also the Boston Massacre, the Boston Massacre was when the people of the king got shot and killed by an angry mob which made them mad. Sugar Act. American History. a law passed by the British Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a…

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…

During 1765 there were many conflicts that played a huge role in the English North America. Most of which involved all the indians. All of them changed American history in some sort of a way. Two of many major events that happened in this time where King Phillips War, and also in Virginia, Bacons Rebellion. King Phillips War ended any relations between the indians and the New England colonists. While Bacons rebellion was him using poor frontier farmers for British Rule. Those are two major…

At the beginning of our Nation's history, Britain sent colonists to come claim and develop the land. However, the colonists believed that the British government was not supporting them, required unfair trade regulations, and taxed them very heavily. These made life very difficult for them and was the reason for their rebellion against the British government. The British passed a series of laws that restricted how the colonists could trade or do business. The Wool Act of 1699 prohibited the…

Religious freedom and, cash cropping provided the basis for the establishment of the English colonies. These two motives are both distinctly American, exemplified by how the ideas of liberty and capitalism are so deeply rooted in American life today. However, American society, even in pre-revolutionary times, became so rich and diverse that the English and the English had begun to overlook the original intent for their formation. The colonies found their own purposes separate from those…