Lieutenant Governor

Since the early 17th century multiple lands in Europe and Puritan Colonial communities in New 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…

Beginning in the middle of 1765, the Sons of Liberty were a secret political organization made up of colonial patriots. The secret organization was founded by Samuel Adams and John Hancock inside of Boston, Massachusetts. The Sons of Liberty was organized as a means to protest the recent tax on anything printed on paper, known as the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act had been pressed upon American’s without the consent of the colonial legislature. Because of this, several colonists wanted to rebel…

Evaluating the presidency of Jefferson Davis is somewhat of a difficult task. When determining how effective a President was while in office, one has to look at many different aspects, as there is so much they have to do. A president who was a great military leader might be remembered poorly if he wasn't able to pull his country out of economic hardship, just as a president who was able to recover his country from depression might be if he lost a lot of men in an unsuccessful war. The problem…

He was appointed as a major in the Virginia militia by Robert Dinwiddie, who was Virginia’s lieutenant Governor. His first mission was to warn the French to move off the British land, if not he would have to rally a removal of the French. The French he refused, he went back Williamsburg, Virginia to get troops and assaulted the French at Fort Duquesne…

It is important for people to make the right choice when voting for political figures. Who people vote for effects everyone. The people we elect to office are going to be there for a while so it’s important that they stand for the right values. The only way we are going to know what they stand for is if we are willing to take the time to research it and find out. If we are going to vote we need to make sure we make an informed vote otherwise we should not vote at all. It is important to know…

three children. Julia’s father John McWilliams Jr. was a Princeton graduate, class of 1901 and her mother, Julia Carolyn (Weston) McWilliams, of Smith College class of 1900, a paper company heiress whose father Byron Curtis Weston, served as a lieutenant governor and was the founder of Weston Paper Co. Julia’s father had a successful career in the field of agricultural land management and real estate. The McWilliams family was well off and all of their children attended private schools. They…

Phonies, or a fake people are those with multiple identities. These people act different in public and private, or in different groups of people. Phonies have been criticized in literature for hundreds of years, but one of the most notable times, and possible the first time it was criticized was in Shakespeare's Othello. Shakespeare uses characters in Othello, such as Iago, Othello and Desdemona, to show how the worst of people usually have an extreme difference in their identities, while the…

Delynna Johnson History 108 Chapter 2 There were two European settlements first created in the New World; the first being Jamestown. It was founded on May 14, 1607, and there were 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company. These people founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. The second settlement was Plymouth; founded on September of 1620. It was composed of around 100 English men and women, many of them were members of…

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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 British also appointed Thomas Gage to be the New Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. Gage was instrumental in…