Pete Townshend

After the "massacre", Paul Revere, a silver smith, created an engraving that portrayed the riot as a true massacre and fueled the Bostonian, and American feelings towards the British. After the Boston Massacre, Britain repealed all of the Townshend Acts, except for the tax on tea. In addition to leaving the tax on tea, Pariliament passed the Tea Act of 1770. This act, in short, allowed the East India Company to sell their tea, without being taxed, to Americas. This was a despereate attempt…

American politics and social views cost a war to achieve. In order for the new American government to stay in place successfully the old one had to be thrown out and the new one given sovereignty. This independence and time for a new rising government came at the price of roughly 25,300 American lives during the American Revolution (“Number of Americans”). The Revolutionary War gave New England the power and want to set up a new government, as well, the revolution changed the way women were…

During the Elizabethan era, life in England was characterized by violence and feuds where ubiquitous. A feud, as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, is An actual feud that took place in the fifteenth century was that between two illustrious northern English families, the House of Percy and the House of Neville, who engaged in skirmishes and were to some extent responsible for the Wars of the Roses. Another feud was that between two Scottish clans, Clan Gunn and Clan Keith, which caused…

Other factors that could have caused the defeat of the Spanish Armada besides the Protestant wind involves looking at events that took place before and during the invasion. The ultimate responsibility for launching, devising and failing the overthrow of the Protestant English regime was placed on King Philip II. After the disappointing failure in his launch of the Spanish Armada, people back at home blamed him for disregarding professional advice given to him by his captains. Professional…

The Treaty of Paris was signed inn February 1763. Britain had taken control of many important French colonies around the world. Britain 's military success created massive challenges. Their national debt had doubled during the war. The cost of maintaining British soldiers in the colonies was staggering. A historian has call this an "arrogant triumphalism" which them to ultimately lose their control over the Indians and the colonists in North America. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was signed…

Morgan Nason History 103 (Bridge History) Journal #2 Power Struggle The vast dispute between Great Britain and the Colonies before the Revolutionary War was a struggle over power. The dispute started during/after the Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War) when the British had taken all the credit for winning, even though the colonists had played a very big part in fighting the war. After the war ended, the British had huge war debts. The war very costly and Britain didn’t really have a way…

The outbreak of the French and Indian War changed the status of the colonies in 1754’(Sheidley). ‘The British provided troops to support and protect the colonists in the conflict against the French and the Indians’(Sheidley). After the war, Parliament declared the colonies guilty and found that there were responsible for the war debt. ‘Parliament enacted a series of tax measures over the next ten years that sparked outrage throughout the colonies(Sheidley).’The several acts passed by the…

Jake Bovard Dr. Smith HIST 1611 18 October, 2017 Ignorance, Protest, and Rebellion Snowball Colonial disregard of British legislation began with the Navigation Acts, a series of pieces of legislation that sought to keep the colonies from trading with anyone who wasn’t the British mainland. The passage of these acts directly caused more than one war between the Dutch and the English, leaving a very sparse fleet to actually enforce those acts. That lack of real coverage to directly enforce the…

British Grand Mistakes The roars coming from the angry colonists, the gunshots fired by the colonists, and the smoke coming from from the gun fire. These horrific scenes took place in an event we call the Boston Massacre. This horrific event was a result of the many grand mistakes caused by the British. The British did not let the colonies have any word on the taxation laws being placed on the colonies. Little did the British know that this would eventually lead to a revolution that would lead…

The Intolerable Acts, also known as Coercive Acts, were for the major part of the 1770s, the main causes of the economic tensions between the British Parliament and the American colonists. In the book, The Common Cause, David Ammerman, deeply explains how and why the American colonists reacted the way they did when these acts were passed by the British Parliament. The intention of these acts such as the Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Justice Act, Quartering Act, and the Quebec…