Matthew Shepard Act

The historical fiction novel, Rise to Rebellion, is about the lead up to, the strategies of, and the politics behind the Revolutionary War told from numerous points of view throughout the novel. The book starts out with a man, who remains nameless, who is a part of the British military. The book describes a horrible ordeal that goes down in Boston, Massachusetts, which later you find out was the Boston Massacre. This event caused a great number of people on both opposing sides of the dispute to…

have the belief that the British are not to blame in this situation and that they were only acting in self-defense. In reality, the opposite is true. So let us review the events of that fateful day. A crowd gathered to protest the unfair Townshend acts that, as you know, have placed taxes on common goods like tea, paper, glass, lead, and paints. A British sentry called for backup dealing with the crowd. At this point, the crowd started throwing snowballs in protest and one young man had become…

weren’t in favor of this. American colonies were in an economic depression, due to supplying food and supplies to British Army, so timing with the tax from Britain caused a rise of frustration with the colonists. At first came the Sugar Act from Britain. The Sugar Act was an indirect tax, Boundless says the tax, “had imposed a tax of…

The Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence on July 4,1776 to explain the colonists opinion on why they wanted to become independent from Great Britain. The reason the colonist wanted to be independent from Great Britain was because of the taxes that were being handed to the colonist for multiple reasons. The Declaration of Independence declared Americans three rights which are life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. This document had been signed on July of 1776 and marked the…

through tough odds, and by the heroic acts of some…

trauma. In addition Barowski mentions his believe that “world is ruled by power and power is obtained with money”. As a result, history gives us insights into the dangers of certain political structures and allows us to identify and react to similar acts of discrimination in the…

Americans thought this was unfair, the colonists rebelled. “We have no representatives in the british parliament. It is against the law for them to tax” (Doc.1) These are the words of Patrick Henry in response to the british taxes. The intolerable acts were the rules that britain set for the colonists after the tea party.…

life very difficult for them and was the reason for their rebellion against the British government. The British passed a series of laws that restricted how the colonists could trade or do business. The Wool Act of 1699 prohibited the export of American-made cloth from the colonies. The Iron Act of 1750 made it so that the colonies could not trade iron finished goods. Many of the colonists were farmers and blacksmiths, and therefore, laws like these made it difficult for the colonists…

Even though a fully rehabilitated ex-inmate had met all the requirements specified on the voting restoration application, he was still denied the right to vote, and there was no reason provided as to why, and this is dangerous to our democracy because it goes against our American ideals. If we look far back to what led to the start of our democracy, it was the American Revolution, and the American Revolution was led by the 1750s and 1760s slogan “No Taxation Without Representation”. The slogan…

The British had been continuously and aggressively aggravating American ships even when America was inside its own harbors. Not only were the ships being harassed, but they were also straight up attacked by the British. The pro-war faction of the US clearly made a very compelling argument, as the US did the right thing and went to war with British in 1812. American ships were being captured and destroyed by the British. The citizens aboard those American ships were often slaughtered when the…