Colonial troops

The first migration into the Americas were from Native Americans also known as many different groups of Indians. The Native Americans took most of the Atlantic Seaboard area. Woodland Indians were a group which were divided based on their language into three. The first were the Algonquin Indians that stayed in the areas of Canada all the way too North Carolina. The Muskogean took over Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. Lastly were the Iroquois which controlled the Great Lakes region and…

Washington. George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, in Westmoreland County Virginia. The continental army was formed by the second continental congress after the outbreak of revolutionary war. The Second Continental Congress managed the colonial war effort and moved determinedly towards independence making the United States Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Declaration of Independence states the principles on which our government the identity of an Americans. Not legally…

commonly known as the American Revenue Act, to generate revenue. New England colonists were openly opposed to this act because they were worried that the tax on foreign molasses would infringe on the northern rum industry. This act is what initiated colonial rebellion against British Parliament. Due to the lack of revenue generated from the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act was implemented into law, which led to the Declaratory Act, and later…

Salutary neglect was a wonderful thing that allowed the colonies to truly flourish as a society, but following the French and Indian War, the British government made mistakes that took a good relationship where the colonials were proud to be part of the British Empire and spoiled it which eventually led to a Revolution. If Great Britain would have made superior decisions, the association between the two could have stayed healthy; a revolution possibly may not have taken place, and America may…

advances that were not seen prior to this event. Second, there are federal innovations in both the Union and Confederacy, which leads to growth as a whole. Third, the war marks the first time the nation has been divided on a large scale since the colonial era. The American Civil War was a time of great death and suffering, but it was also an era of positive creativity and invention. New technology was developed during the Civil War. One of…

out of an area. All of these technologies made the war something that each country was not prepared for except for the US. US’s leader, John Pershing recognized this war was unlike any war before. He prepared his troops with proper trench, tanks, and gas training before placing his troops in the dangerous Great War. In contrast, Russia suffered greatly in the Great War because of their lack of industrialization. Their original plan was to outnumber the enemy, but they lacked proper supplies to…

displeased, were dependent on the colonial assembly due to the control of their salaries, weakening “thier positions” (pg. 71). The governors were touchy with the colonists and avoided angering them to make sure their paycheck was still in their pockets every payday. Since the colonist had so much control, “colonial assemblies came to act like and think of themselves as mini-parliaments, with full legislative power over local matters” (pg. 71). However colonial assemblies could be uncouth and if…

enforcement policies within it. The resistance to the Acts involved expanding a network of individuals, families, neighbors, communities, and colonies from New England to Georgia. The only flaw to the resistance of the Acts was the separation of the colonial ranks; the most significant being the split between urban artisans and merchants, allies in 1765. The colonists hated the way the duties were to be spent based on the new ways money was to be…

The congress chose a man by the name of George Washington to lead a group of militiamen against the besieging of colonists located in Boston from British troops. The congress also formed the money to make a small navy and help train militiamen so that they could be a trained force and come to be known as the first Continental Army. Battles underwent between the two forces and were named such as Bunker Hill…

The Stamp Act created to make American colonists pay a new tax on every piece of printed paper they used in order to protect them. The Act was the first direct tax and so offensive to all colonists because it was set without any approval of the colonial legislatures. The Virginia House of Burgesses stood against this taxation by adopting four resolves of Patrick Henry. The resolutions indicated to declare that Americans should have the same rights as the English men, especially on the right to…