Declaration of Sentiments

On March 5, 1770 a mob of colonists armed with clubs surrounded the customs house in Boston where the kings money was kept. The mob surrounded the guard posted there and threatened his life so the red coats were called in, to disperse the mob and the defend the customs house. The colonists started to attack the redcoats tasked with defending the customs house, Which lead to an unordered shot fired by one of the soldiers, not directly at the colonists. According to the Captain Thomas Preston the…

The non-Indian population grew exponentially in the 1700’s throughout America. Europeans from many countries continued to transplant their lives into the colonies, bringing with them their cultures, religions, family values, and their need for prosperity. Many came to America for asylum, to escape religious persecution back home from the grasp of the Catholic Church. Turmoil also plagued England, which brought about the English Civil War in 1642 between the King and his supporters fighting…

Isaac Newton through his laws of physics or “Newton’s Laws” set the stage for the Enlightenment also known as The Age of Reason, which occurred in the 17th and 18th century.If Newton was able to determine laws around planets there could be natural laws around how people behaved. These laws would be considered universal and through the Enlightenment period, the philosophers would attempt to discover them. Our society would not be what it is today if it wasn't for the ideas generated by four…

John Quincy Adams: The Patriot of Persuasion and Peace Third Draft Caleb Coyle When people look back into history, they see these patriots. They seem to be very important people in history. However, what are patriots? Are they as small as a football team, or are they as large as a society? Each individual patriot is more than a society, since they helped form a country. However, what makes a patriot stand out from everyone else, and what is an example of a patriot? Patriots are men and women,…

Deep in the home of colonist, a riot was forming. It is March 23, 1765, just one day since colonist received the treacherous news, of what they thought to be a horrendous, tax they would be forced to pay. Just as things started to calm down from the French and Indian war, that took place on colonist land, the stamp act was thrown upon them. The Stamp Act was an act passed by the King of England, to help pay for their unwanted services in the recent war. When the king had heard about the ongoing…

The Battles of Lexington and Concord during the Revolutionary War Jalen Perez-Aguilar Mountain View High School Abstract The battles of Lexington and concord were the first battles of the Revolutionary War. Many events lead the defeat and the close victory at Concord. Paul Revere took a Midnight ride with 3 men he got captured, but William Dawes escaped to Lexington and warned Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The Patriots retreated at Lexington, but they formed a trap at concord and the road…

13 colonies consisted of the middle colonies, Northern, and southern colonies. They all had many similarities that contributed social, biological, and economical ways each colony lived. Some of the similarities consisted of many different forms of religion but the main religion were based on the foundations of Christianity. Another similarity was all the colonies had some form of democracy but the type will vary between them. Last but not least of the similarities had the occupation of small…

Thomas paine was born on January 29, 1737 in Thetford England he went to the local school until the age of 13. He left school to help his father.U.S. history.org States that “Thomas Paine’s father, Joseph Pain was a Quaker who kept in Thetford as a staymaker, in modern terms a maker of women’s corsets. Joseph Pain ran a small farm besides his stay making business and he made enough money to able to send his son to grammar school.” (Ayer 91). Ushistory.org stated that, ”Thomas began helping his…

The Founding Fathers of America worked together in an effort to write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These actions are what established America as a free country ruled as a democracy. All of the men who were involved in the founding of America are considered Founding Fathers, but there are a few that stand out a bit more than the others. John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington all influenced the future of America forever by being brave enough to express their…

The road to the Revolutionary war was a tiring, uphill battle for the Colonists and the British. The relationship between Great Britain and the American Colonists were never a cordial, or a generous one. In the eyes of the Colonists, King George III was a tyrannic thief, who used the Colonies to syphon their money through taxes in order to increase his own wealth. Meanwhile, the British viewed the Colonists as rebellious, uncooperative residents of a failing society. Between 1763 and 1776…