Nantucket, Massachusetts

The Salem Witch Trials began late 1691, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts said they were possessed by the devil and accused three local women of witchcraft. During this time, those that were religious believed that the devil could give certain people the power to harm others. The accusation created panic between people and quickly created a massive witch hunt. A special court was created in Salem to hear the cases of those accused of being a witch. At some point,…

In Walden chapter two, Henry Thoreau points out on where lives and what he lives from. One of his main points in this chapter is that every person has a divine power to create and develop the kind of surrounding he chooses to live in and what he wants to live from. He also brings up the issue ofthe great feeling of achievement that comes with creating or coming up with something, like he did by building his own house.By speaking of creation, he does not try to raise his standards or raise…

Depictions and reports of abuse by the British towards the colonists throughout the 13 colonies was used to further heighten the tensions throughout the land and act as a rallying point for further protests and resistance14. The desire for self-rule began to take hold and filter throughout all of the colonies. The crumbling relationship between the colonies and their British rulers led to further decent and ultimately to significant changes. In May of 1770, all British troops were forced out of…

Question 1: What role did technology change play in improvements in agriculture during the era of the market revolution? What kind of impact on values did such changes foster? When technology booms, there is no surprise to the beneficial advantages that come forth from agriculture, industry, and transportation: there was no exception in the market revolution of 1815. “One of the earliest and most important… was an iron plow introduced by Jethro Wood in 1819;” the plow led to the modification of…

behavior to see the inside of them and to find salvation. with only two from all the colonies ministers being saved, she influenced people to question the qualifications of them. these followers were called Antinomians, taking up half of people in Massachusetts Bay. her and all her followers were unfortunately banished by John Winthrop Third Anglo-Powhatan War- lasting from 1644 until 1646, this war was caused but the attack of powhatan warriors on Virginians. this attack was sparked but land…

Henry David Thoreau’s Walden consists of eighteen chapters in which he describes his two-year stay in Walden Pond. His purpose is clearly stated in chapter two titled “Where I Lived and What I Lived For”, where he states, “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Thoreau’s Walden is to be read with the knowledge that it…

Relying on yourself was a major understanding in the minds of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau, who were both part of the transcendentalist movement. Transcendentalism evolved in the middle of the 19th Century with the help of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau. Transcendentalists believed the only way to learn the truth about God, the universe, the self, and everything else, one must transcend everyday human experience to a higher being existence in nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson is “The…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, initiated colonization by Europe in the New World when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. English and Spanish colonies grew to become very different from one another with frequent similarities. The Spanish colonies and New England greatly differed in terms of control by a European government, were both vastly similar and extremely different in terms of religion, and were largely similar in terms of treatment of indigenous…

Nature in the Wind Aspects of nature can be found just about everywhere on our planet, and because of this, many different opinions from billions of writers from across the globe conclude different theories about how nature affects the Earth and the people who live within it. From the successful Disney film, “Pocahontas,” the naturistic song, “Colors of the Wind,” composed by Stephen Schwartz, connects deeply with the transcendental values of two writings by Henry Thoreau and Ralph Emerson.…

The articles of confederation is an agreement amongst the 13 original states of America. This document was the first constitution among the states and the original drafting started in July of 1776, but it wasn’t until late 1777 when it was approved. These articles provided systems for the Revolutionary War, manage diplomacy with Europe and work around the territorial issues amongst the Native Americans. There were many long debates about this constitution on some issues of sovereignty, what and…