New England Patriots

in the form of raised taxes. In addition, British troops had to patrol the colonies’ borders because of ongoing Native American warfare after 1763. Those new controls consequently led to the American Revolution. After the 1760s, the colonists started to view the British not as protectors, but overlords. However, the colonial response to the new enforcements gradually built in the direction of the American Revolution in 1776. The French and Indian War was fought from 1756 to 1763. It was a…

John quit at age sixteen, shortly after his father died, and his mother re-married. He became a mercenary, and became a good soldier. When the war he was fighting in ended, he didn’t take a break. He went out and learned from a French man. He learned new things, and eventually became a pirate. After his pirate years, he went back to being a soldier, but was caught in Turkey, and made into a slave.…

Nat’s crime is that he and his sailor pals trespassed on William Ashby’s property and “vandalized” his land by illuminating his new house with Jack-o’-Lanterns on All Hallows Eve. The Puritans of Wethersfield see this as “ was an outrageous piece of blasphemy” (147). His day of public punishment included sitting in the stocks “from one hour before the lecture till one hour after”(149). He also had to pay a fine of forty shillings, and he is exiled from Wethersfield;if he will get “thirty…

important when it came to people immigrating to the new world. The following two passenger lists—one for England and one for Virginia—provide an indication of the different types of people who came to the two colonies. These passenger lists tell a lot more than the amount of people who entered and exited board these ships. These lists often included name, age, some occupation of the people who had the drive to make this crazy journey to the new world to get rich and search for opportunities.…

Anglo-Saxons. There was no central government, police force, legal system, etc. in Anglo-Saxon England. Kings weren't kings in the way we think of them today. There were no knights as we think of them or as they appear in King Arthur myths (not until the Middle Ages), and chivalry was centuries away from being thought of. Knights and chivalry are medieval ideas, not Anglo-Saxon ideas. And feudalism came to England via the Normans in 1066. Anglo-Saxon society was…

Convict Justice To solve the overcrowded prisons, we would first need to locate the source of the problem, and it begins with the British. The British hate the Irish, because they thought that they were beneath them. The Irish worked in the fields, and were hungry and starving often. The greedy British would sometimes threaten them by taking away their houses if they did not pay them the rent. The British would not give them the food so they decided the only last resort was to steal to live.…

The World Is Too Much For Us In his poem, “The World Is Too Much For Us,” William Wordsworth demonstrates a Romanticist point of view when he tells the reader that the world is too focused on materialistic items to appreciate what nature has to offer. Wordsworth’s message comes through clearly with his use of vivid imagery and strong tone in his poem. Overall, “The World Is Too Much For us,” is an Italian Sonnet, which means it is written in iambic pentameter. Wordsworth's poem consists of…

The Separatist unknowing to the land and the area managed to excavate the land for the essentials needed to start a new life on this land. Bradford details the discovery of multi-colored vegetables found by the Separatist that created new speculations on the land. As well as finding Native American planting ground where they learned that it was possible to live off the land and start a life on this place. Bradford shines light…

Walker Poorman Mrs. Atkin ELA 8 22 September 2015 Burning Nation Your Nation is going to war With your government. What do you do, which side should you be on? This is what happen to a 17 year old boy named Daniel Wright in his hometown Freedom lake, Idaho. On day Daniel and his mother went to the grocery store. While they were living the grocery store a guy in a suite came up and shot Daniel Wright’s mother and killed her. Daniel fought that men and killed him. After that Daniel wright…

The term Puritans was first used to describe anyone who wanted to be “pure” of the Church of England and their practices (Curtis). Since these people had changed their religious ideas to become pure of the Church of England they did not quite think much like the Native Americans in the Americas.The views vary differently compared to “The Earth on the Turtle's Back”, “When Grizzlies Walked Upright”, and “The Navajo Origin Legend.” To the Native Americans the myth,“The Earth on the Turtle's Back…