Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

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    Parliament, who declared the Massachusetts Bay colony to be in a state of rebellion. The Parliament took harsh actions in an attempt to stamp out this up rising. These actions included closing the Boston port, dismissing the Massachusetts Government, forcing the quartering of troops upon the colonist, and moved trials of British officials to Great Britain. The colonist rejected these acts as a violation of the colonial charter and many colonists rallied to support Massachusetts. The…

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    John F Kennedy Legacy

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    In his senior year of college, Germany invaded Poland and World War II begun. Jack and his eldest brother Joe both joined the navy. Jack was a lieutenant for the South Pacific in the Solomon Islands in a patrol torpedo boat as a commander. His boat blew up when it came in contact with a Japanese warship, but luckily he saved himself and a fellow crew member, Patrick McMahon. For his bravery and honor…

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    England had been living in suspicion of members in their communities to be practising witchcraft while living amongst them in secret. The act of practising witchcraft was punishable by death. In many small farming towns, such as the infamous Salem, Massachusetts, this had gained Salem a dark reputation. The practice of witch trials had been going on for 300 years. During of which both the town and village of Salem had begun practising. In the fear of townsmen being and practising witchcraft,…

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    a result of continuing Indian resistance to New England’s expansion. Spain joined France against the English. The war began in the winter of 1704, when the French and their Indian allies raided the New England frontier, devastating Deerfield, Massachusetts. The English attacked Acadia in 1704 and again in 1707. Also in 1707, England became part of Britain, now the United Kingdom (see United Kingdom, History of the). In 1710, Britain seized Port-Royal. In the South, the British and their Indian…

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    Scott’s article quotes First Lieutenant Oliver Willcox Norton of the camp 's 8th United States Colored Troop (USCT) Regiment as he described the enthusiasm of the black recruits to join the union "Our camp thronged with visitors...who wanted to enlist," he wrote. "There are hundreds of…

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    In Rise of the Warrior Cop, Radley Balko discusses in chapter five the use of police in the 1970s. He starts of by mentioning Sam Ervin a senator from North Carolina who would try fight then President Richard Nixon Administration stance on the no knock warrant. At the time the main focus for any political election was showing the public that they were tough on crime in order to tally up votes. This started to set up policies and agencies that will soon begin the war on drugs. First thing was the…

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    The biggest difficulty historians face in relying heavily on the trial reports is their varying form and content. Although the 1700 Piracy Act required registers to keep minutes of the proceedings, like much of everything surrounding piracy law, there were no specifics on what that meant. It is clear from the collection of these trials that the point of the recorder was not to capture every word uttered in court. Depending on the court the narrative changes between first and third person, and…

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    As there are inherent flaws with legislation in historical analysis, so too are there issues with these trial reports. The most obvious concern is that we must rely on the competence and impartiality of court registers which at times was questionable. William Norris, the register of the vice-Admiralty court of Jamaica, recorded little defense for John Rackam and his crew, noting their response to the judge’s inquiries was that “they had no Witnesses, That they had never committed any Acts of…

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    Sons Of Liberty

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    Sons of Liberty: Fathers of American Activism The United States has a long history of political activism by and for the people, a legacy that continues today. The day after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, more people took to the streets in protest than ever before. That fiercely American action dates back to the Sons of Liberty, a political group that organized for the rights of colonial citizens in the 18th century, against oppressive taxation from Britain (135-136). Many…

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    In “Harriet Tubman” her work in the Civil War began as this, “In 1862, for example, Governor Andrew of Massachusetts sent her to Beaufort, South Carolina, after the fall of Fort Royal to nurse the sick and wounded soldiers and teach newly-freed blacks to become self-sufficient. Tubman worked as a spy, too, organizing a group of eight men of African…

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