Middle Colonies

Most people believe that the revolution was just between Patriots(Americans) and the British.But there was a civil war going on here as well.It became so bad that there were house burning, mud slinging, lynching, and tar and feathering. When we remember the heroic hurt of George Washington’s army at Valley Forge.In Philidelphia the British are stalling the Philidelphia’s army.All the people were well fed and rested.The painting on the book “jacket of tories” was an detail of a portrait of…

The reasons why the colonies rebelled, was because the British were overtaxing the colonies because the British were in debt. Because the colonies were acting violent since the colonies were being taxed on everything they dumped chests of tea in the water which made the British angry. The colonies rights were soon taken away. After the Boston Tea Party, the intolerable act was created. The intolerable act was created to punish the colonist for throwing away hundreds chests of tea into the water,…

Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford, the American myth was created. Stepping off the Mayflower or any other ship on to the new land made you a true American. England was so much more developed than the new land, america, they established the colonies and had some conflict with the Indians. The new land allowed them to create a Christian community and to practice their religion the way it was supposed to be. They could go back to the times of the early apostles since there was a decline from…

in our US history because the US was free to make up its own rules. In 1776 technology became more diverse and advanced. Many children have a ruff time in 1776, but they were well behaved, learned to have fun, and had a fantastic work ethic. The colonies had a hard…

The Second American Revolution (Reflection) When you think of the word “Revolution” as a whole, you think of the word “Revolt”. Normally whether it’s a single person, a group, or maybe a whole country, when we revolt against something, it’s normally because we want change. When Thomas Jefferson came to power as America’s third president of the United States, he caused a revolution to occur. Unlike most revolutions, war didn’t actually happened, but change did come from this. In the article “The…

In the beginning of the colonies the British left them alone to conduct their own business and government the way they saw fit. Once the British needed money then they decided to tax the colonist directly. This was not a smart move and as the British continued to pass new laws taking…

The venture to establish a colony at Jamestown was designed by the Virginia Company of London, which was organized and financed the colony, that wanted its business model to extract profits from the gold, silver, and other riches supposedly to be found in that region of North America. Also, no one knew the gigantic North American continent yet, the company soon expected to find a trade route by river through Virginia to the Pacific (Price, pg 1). This method was active eight months earlier. The…

what it was. They wants us to pay taxes because they want us to pay for the “French And Indian War”. If we wanted to send a letter to my Uncle Rick in Virginia we now have to buy a stamp to send a letter to him. Why are the British charging the colonies for the war? The British know we are country that doesn’t have a lot of money. Tomorrow we have a town meeting to talk about the stamp act. Are very own samuel Adams will be there, who is against the stamp act. Samuel Adams does not think it…

What impact did the English Civil war have on the United State? The English civil war was one of the most significant war that occurred . The war involved king, Parliament , aristocracy , and the middle class . Many historians say that it did have a big impact on America others say it didn’t cause anything special. This war was one that tied up America with new innovations and different resources. The problem or conflict was between the major superpowers on that time. Great Britain was trying…

“The British armed forces in the American revolutionary war” by David Syrett, touches a broad range of topics. It talks about how we are still finding historical objects and evidence from that era, such as the following. It explains that the study of the American Revolutionary War did not begin until the last decades of the nineteenth century. Laughton had a great impact on the history of the British military during the American Revolutionary war. In the Age of the Cold War, historians…