John Hope Franklin

:Ladies and gentlemen! it is a pleasure and a wonderful privilege to be here with you today. Today we will honor the work Mr. Elias Howe put in this world by inventing the sewing machine, there are many other wonderful inventors that invented other types of sewing machines, we should thank him for their work too. Thank you for being here everyone please relax and enjoy the speech! Mr. Elias Howe was born in Spencer Massachusetts, he was schooled at a local school with his brother Amasa, he…

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…

Ben Franklin was born in Boston on January 17, 1706. Ben had 16 brothers and sisters. Ben wanted to write for the paper with his brother, he was very successful with his job. Ben decided to turn to science and become an inventor. He invented the heat efficient stove. It was used to heat up houses. The stove helped improve society. Ben franklin also was the first person to invent the swim fins. Ben loved to swim and he wanted to find a way to make it easier to swim. First he invented wooden…

before 16-year old James became fascinated by seafaring tales and of becoming a seaman, and Sanderson realised that the youngster’s heart was not in shopkeeping. Furthermore, in July 1746 he found Cook an apprenticeship in the merchant navy with Captain John Walker, a Quaker coal-shipper of Whitby. During his three year apprenticeship, transporting coal to and from Whitby, James Cook became proficient in mathematics and navigation. In 1755 Captain Walker offered him a command, but Cook decided…

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…

As a child we were taught about Christopher Columbus sailing the ocean and finding the Americas. Pocahontas meeting the white man for the first time, going on to marrying and so forth. Slavery was a horrid thing and Abraham Lincoln passed a bill freeing them. Of course there was much more that was taught but I haven’t taken any other history classes since and my opinion had not changed much. Having this class has opened my eyes to a lot of other amazing and yet tragic information. Having read…

The increase in taxes was one of the many factors that contributed to the war between Britain and the colonies. The more the colonies try to fight back the more the British increased taxes (p99). The British basic wanted to control and dictate the colonies lives. In 1765 the colonies boycotted British goods hoping that would put a stop to it. (p101) The native Americans were taking the British side thinking it will stop them from taking their land (p101). The African-American sided with British…

Thomas Cole was an artist in the early and mid 1800s bringing his own new style of painting to the art world taking it by storm and really breaking away from the normal traditional ways that we have studied through this last semester. I chose Thomas Cole because I have experienced pieces of his work for years of my life through my previous courses. I have a love for the country and he depicts the woodland and beautiful landscape of the world making you appreciate where you are no matter what is…

Richard’s Almanac by Benjamin Franklin defines an American during this time period as someone who works hard, builds wealth, and values wisdom. Franklin defines an American as a hard worker throughout the text, emphasizing its importance. One example of this definition is “Work while it is called today for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow.” This shows that you must not put work off and complete it by working hard. By showing the benefits of hard work. Franklin outlines what an…

The Birth of a New Nation There are many different understandings to what the American Revolution was. The American Revolution also known as, “The War of American Independence” was the armed conflict between Great Britain and thirteen of its North American Colonies that took place from 1765-1783. Each side wanted something to fight for. The British was in debt and they wanted money. The patriots wanted independence and didn’t want to pay for goods they didn’t want. This paper is going to…