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Following the conclusion of The French and Indian War, England was faced with a at least two problems pertaining to her North American colonies that needed to be addressed. The first of which was how to recover from the burden of an enormous amount of debt that had befallen on England secondary to their war efforts. The second was how to control and govern the newly gained territories gained from the French with the treaty of 1763. England’s answer to these two problems for came in the form of…

Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…

The American Revolution was a major contributor to enduring effects on the United States. The conflict arose from growing tensions between residents of Great Britain’s 13 North American colonies around the 1770s. These disputes were created because of Britain’s excessive taxing such as the Stamp Act and the Tea Act. A phrase used by the U.S. citizens was “No taxation without representation” which caused even more conflict between the two areas. The American Revolution shaped the U.S. and created…

setting and landscape of the country attracted the most courageous, honest, and hard - working families that the Founders relied on. There were other exceptional benefits as a result of the setting such as the Atlantic ocean buffer between the American colonies and the European continent. After the American Revolution and War of 1812, the United States shared peaceful northern and southern borders with its neighbors and had access to the frontier to the west through the Louisiana…

Massachusetts Bay Colony passed the first law in the New World that required children to be taught to read and write. The founders of the colony, the Puritans, wanted their kids to be able to read the bible. They believed that school would provide children some values of good citizenship. Due to this act, in 1647 Massachusetts passed the law that all towns had to establish and maintain public…

English agriculture was another contribution to the growing American identity of the mid-eighteenth century. In the early colonies of Virginia and New England, the colonists attempted to transplant the style of farming and husbandry with which they were familiar in England. "They brought with them farming techniques based on ownership and cultivation of land". "The colonists saw it as their birth-right if not their duty to tame the land and transform it into profitable, workable tracts."…

the French and Indian war otherwise known as the Seven Year which occurred around the 1750’s and 1760’s. As a result of the war Britain gained new territory, but also created a massive debt that Britain would expect for the British along with the colonies to pay. The first tax the Britain imposed on the colonists was the sugar act of 1764. This act became identified as an issue especially…

A lot of people would like to argue that we are the best in a lot of arenas. If you look at another one of our prized freedoms the freedom of press, it might be surprising how little freedom of press our nation really has. How the press is just a tool used to feed us what the government needs us to be fed, and to hide all the things that the government thinks we don’t need to know. A lot of people would argue that our government is one of the best in the world but the recent shutdown might…

The Truth About White Supremacy: American History X As a Hispanic, I suppose I should expect or, be prepared, rather, for racism and discrimination. Thankfully, I have not experienced either.. yet. Our world is not perfect; things take place that we rather not know about, but ignoring the problem seems to only make matters worse. The movie American History X, is an admirable attempt to inform us about these types of malicious ignorance that plague our society. The impeccable acting,…

This was critical because the colonies needed French support to succeed against the British. England and France were enemies. France had been humiliated by defeat in the French and Indian war, and was eager for vengeance, and the Americans needed an ally. The alliance would be beneficial…