Education in England

Do you know the reason why you were born in this free country named “America”? America wasn't always the land of the free and the home of the brave, before all that happened it started with the Europeans that came for religious freedom and to find more land where they could spread their culture. Even though the Puritans had invaded the Native Americans land, the Native Americans still helped the Puritans. If it weren't for the Native Indians the Europeans would have been starving, homeless, and…

explicitly states the intentions for the colony to be a religious haven for Puritans when he says that “the Lord make it like that of New England.’ For we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill” (Winthrop 66). Winthrop wants this new settlement to be one that fulfills the Puritan’s covenant with God; therefore, he believes that the settlers of New England must constantly…

1770’s were the years that England was becoming stricter with their colonist’s from overseas. The year’s that started and helped the colonists gain their independence from Great Britain. The colonists were trying to get away from Great Britain’s government because of a few reasons. This started when England decided to raise taxes on their colonists without their consent, Great Britain initial plan was to use those taxes to pay for military. Eventhough, it was for the colonist’s protection they…

Many people travelled to Colonial America in pursuit of finding religious freedom. The people were fleeing from their countries because they were tired of religious persecution. In Colonial America, there were many religious groups. Among these groups, there were the Puritans. They believed in order to get into Heaven, people had to live the Puritan way. The Puritans craved for their religion to take over the thirteen colonies, so they attacked those who would not conform to the Puritan way of…

The United States of America had just won her independence from Great Britain and is starting to prosper. The United States is winning wars and expanding, becoming more powerful, recently defeating the pirates of Tripoli and making themselves known as a military power. However there are still those who continue to pick on the United States, not respecting it as an independent power, and that of course is Great Britain. I suppose you can say after their defeat here in America and we made them…

Congress wrote the "Declaration of Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms". This had stated that how the colonist should be loyal to Britain or resist by force. (Doc 5) This created Pro-American people, and these American people rejected the king of England, and were unwilling to work with him and wanted to gain independence from Britain. (Doc…

I am experiencing the Stamp Act. The British Parliament need help defending and protecting the American frontier near the Appalachian Mountains. They passed the law March 22nd 1765. This law is made so that every printed piece of paper has to be taxed. You have to pay taxes on newspapers, playing cards, The Stamp Act is actually not that much to pay. The Stamp Act has violence between some people. A mob in Boston attacked Mr. Oliver the secry because he accepted the act. The colonists are…

Patrick Henry would agree that there was too little freedom in America at the time he was alive. He lived in the American colonies when Britain was enforcing many unfair laws on the American colonies. Patrick henry knew and saw the British were being unfair and refusing to listen to reason. Henry Patrick fought against the British by convincing the Americans to come together and stand for their freedom. He gave many speeches and first said the famous words “Give me liberty or give me death!” In…

These Anglo Saxons poems share many common points. They both tell the protagonists story about being exiled from their society. This was a popular topic in Anglo Saxon time because many had lords who could kick them out at any time without a reason, and the person being exiled could not do anything about it. During the protagonists exile, they experience hard times and emotional pain. The most noticeable similarity is that in both stories, the narrator is exiled from the society. However, they…

Recently, we have learned the dairy which wrote by 2 heroes during colonial time period: John Smith and William Bradford. They are such important figures, the story of them gives us a great picture of the arduous life in early America during 16 century. The two characters share a lot of common ground; but in the mean while they also have distinct differences. In the following couple paragraph we are going to discover and scrutinize their personal belief and creed, I believe we would see the…