Middle Colonies

The American Revolution has many debates surrounding it. Among those, is whether or not the Revolution was revolutionary. On 2/27/17, we traveled around the classroom, analyzing primary documents, to give us an idea of what was happening. My answer to the debate is that yes, the Revolution was revolutionary. The revolution made a difference in life for colonists in many ways, which are embodied and shown in various ways. To begin, source 1 was a depiction of a revolt in New York. Colonists who…

tribes, so it would’ve been rather easy to live amongst each other, yet this is what the King did not realize. British subjects were completely capable of living amongst this race of people. This was one of the major reasons as to why the American colonies found this law unreasonable, yet not only this, but there was no way to restrict colonization beyond the mountains that was set in stone. Settlers were well aware of the restrictions, but without a true consequence for moving past the…

leaders received from the colonists during the French and Indian War influenced their growing desire to further control the New World. Taking this factor into account, the English leaders forged plans to give the British government control over the colony. This triggers the colonialist’s resentment towards the entire British imperial policies. It is from this resentment that the American Revolution was started. The desire of the Colonists to rebel against England was a decision that had…

Three events leading up to the trail of tears were the treaty of Ghent, the Cherokee Appeal in 1830 and the Treaty of New Echota . First off the treaty of Ghent which ended the war of 1812 was a peace treaty between the US and England. The war of 1812 happened because England did not want the US to be trading with France because England was also at war with France. England was harassing US naval vessels and kidnapping sailors and forcing them to fight in England's military. They also passed laws…

On July 4th, the American colonies declared the independent of the Unite States, it was the result of the war between the American colonies and the Britain. A lot of people might have heard about the Boston Tea Party, a bunch of Americans dumped British tea into Boston Harbor, but many do not know how important it was. In fact, the Boston Tea Party was the trigger of the American Independent War. In the year of 1767, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, which were laws that put taxes on…

Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s Secretary of Treasury, was born in the West Indies. He adopted America as his home country, and contributed many ideas when it came to the creation of the national government. According to The American Pageant: 13th Edition, “Critics claimed Alexander Hamilton was invested in helping the United States as a country succeed more than the United States citizens in general.” Alexander Hamilton was indeed more concerned for the country as a whole than the…

The Declaration of Independence was written to help establish a new government that would reflect the will of the American people, but in order to make this happen the document will have to give and form rational reasons pertaining of course to all senses, such as logos, ethos and pathos. There are four major parts of the Declaration of Independence and they are the introduction, the preamble, the two part body, and the conclusion. The introduction of the document is the shortest part, only…

2.Who were the “Neutral French?” Why did they pose such a problem to the British? Why did the British want them to sign and Oath of Allegiance and why did the Acadians refuse? The Treaty of Utrecht allowed the Frist Nations to decide whether or not they wanted to stay in Acadia within the first year of the treaty, however if they chose to stay, the Natives would have to pledge allegiance to Britain (Conrad & Finkel, 2009). Most of the First Nations chose to stay on their land, however…

pursuit of happiness”. It centralizes on the idea that all have men have certain rights and the king had taken these rights from the colonists and they did not want this to happen again. The Declaration of Independence also demonstrate that the 13 colonies were independent states and were no longer under the British rule. The Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the American experiment in free government. But what is much forgotten is that the Founding Fathers’s…

The history of immigration began in Australia about 50000 years ago when people migrated to the mainland and their ancestors reached the mainland through Islands. Europe's permanent colonies began in 1788 and established a British colony in New South Wales. From the beginning of 1901, the Federation maintained Australia's "White Australia" policy, which was abolished after World War II and heralded the multicultural era of Australia. In 1901, 98% of Australians are white. Australia wants to…