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    Furthermore, the violence for reform in France incited British reformers to form societies and demand for British people to be represented with a just government. Eric Evans argues that societies, such as the London Corresponding Society, were set up to achieve parliamentary reform inspired by the French; cartoons of were made to mock the constitution and King George III, this placed the King and upper classes in a threatening position unless they began reform. Their political aims were…

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    Sons of Liberty: Villains or Heroes Did the Son’s of Liberty have to administer such extreme and sometime unreasonable warfare against Britain? How many heroes do you know create anarchy to prove their point. William Paine of Worcester, Massachusetts, in November 1773 wrote “ Dare to withstand those Devils that call themselves Son’s of Liberty. But from such Liberty! Good God! Deliverous. People sometimes referred to them as the “Sons of Faction” or the “Sons of Violence”. These so…

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    Originally though all the land in the Americas belonged to the Native Americans who had inhabited the Americas for many years beforehand. After the war more than half of the native land was taken over by the English settlers which economically changed the resources readily available to the both the natives and the English settlers. Chief Canassatego of the Onondaga Indians described these events as unsettling due to the fact that they were losing more and land resources to the “white settlers”…

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    therefore changes their view on life and become evil. Or they could just be born that way and nothing you can do about it. A person's true intentions and their actions determine the darkness of their heart. Over a period of time everyone makes an act of evil but in reality are not evil at heart. During people's lifetime, at some point they will get angry. Sometimes it leads them to making bad choices that they really do not mean. From the story What Makes Us Moral “ Sometimes we can't help it,…

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    “You do realize once you join, there's no going back,” Rocco said. “I know that just don't let me get caught!¨ Imani said rudely. ¨Imani, actually you don't...if you die in there you can die here!¨ Rocco shouted. ¨Well then say your goodbyes now,¨ Imani said, you could tell she was over it. Imani laid on the flat table. Rocca brought over the head gear and cords. He placed it on Imani’s head. ¨Oouch! That's tight!¨ Rocco ignored it and continued to hook her…

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    Coffee Culture In America

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    How many of you reading this drink coffee? 80 percent of Americans drink coffee1. Americans drink coffee a lot of the time without knowing the reasons why they choose it over tea. I correlate drinking coffee with the American Revolution and the Boston Tea Party. I will be discussing the history of coffee culture in America by going over how we starting drinking coffee over tea. I will start by going over the history of the coffee culture in America by discussing the Boston Tea Party and the…

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    When the British made this act, this made the colonists not be able to move westward passed the Appalachian Mountains. The Colonist were furios due to the act. Colonist were not able to gain more land and that was one of the main reasons why there were many colonist. All they wanted was cheap, affordable land but the british took all of that…

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    There were many events that caused us to have a sense of unity as the colonies and want to rebel for independence from Britain. The main reason was because of the French and Indian War. Britain had to heavily tax the colonies because they were in debt from war. This also caused us to acquire a greater sense of unity. Also, the Proclamation of 1763 caused us to want to rebel for independence. This banned settlement for the colonists, which was an unfair rule from Britain. Other patriots as well…

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    On October 28, 1919, U.S. Congress, over President Woodrow Wilson’s veto, passed the Volstead Act, more popularly called the National Prohibition Act. The following year, on January 16th, 1920, the act was put into effect in the U.S.. This act established the banning or prohibition of: selling, producing and distributing; not the consumption, of alcoholic products. This act put thousands out on the streets and angered millions of Americans. Nevertheless, the American people joined together and…

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    The 1862 Homestead Act made to measure lands accessible to homesteaders, the act specified that men and women over and within the age of 21 and single women who were the head any family and married men under and within the age of 21 who do not own over 160acres of land elsewhere were and eligible citizens or wished to become citizens of the United States were qualified to be homestead. The circulation of government lands had been a problem from the time the Revolutionary War, early…

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