Kingsford officially became recognised as a suburb on 25 June 1936. Prior to becoming its own suburb, it was mostly undeveloped land and was known as South Kensington. The suburb is mainly residential with a population of 14,100. It has a large commercial area where the markets, restaurants, hotels, and bars are found. Kingsford is surrounded by other eastern suburbs, making it close to Sydney, beaches, and other recreational areas. Housing The housing situation in Kingsford consists of…
Colonists abandon loyalty to Britain The colonists abandoned their loyalty to the king because of the wrong treatment they received. The colonies believed the acts with taxation were unfair because their own legislation had the authority to tax them. Because of the Boston Tea Party, which was where the British dumped out tea as a way of protesting in Boston, the British government became furious at the colonists. The colonial leaders wanted to defend their self government and liberty. The…
the Lexington and Concord battle there was 700 British and 77 Militiamen. It took place in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston. It all started because tTensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. The battle of Lexington and Concord impacted the American Revolution by starting the war.…
1. By the end of the 1600s, the Chesapeake Bay region was an agro-export economy specializing in the cultivation of tobacco. One geographic benefits of the region to this endeavor is that the Chesapeake Bay region is surrounded by a lot of rivers where it makes trade and transportation of good accessible between different states. According to the Chesapeake Bay River 1 map, there are many rivers such as the Potomac River which extends to other states. In the map the whole region is highlighted…
Britain, instead of with us increasingly “subversive” American colonists. Article I of the law states, “all the territories [between Ohio and the Mississippi River, and the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay] be, and they are hereby, during his Majesty's Pleasure, annexed to, and made Part and Parcel of, the Province of Quebec” (for present-day reference, this area includes southern Ontario, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota). Thus the King is essentially giving Quebec…
History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay: The Massachusetts Bay Colony Case against Anne Hutchinson(1637), vol. II, 1767 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1936), pp. 366–84. In this book, Thomas Hutchinson uses the same dialogue of the antinomian controversy of 1636-1638 that broke out…
Continent in 1607, they established themselves in what they named Jamestown, the first official English settlement in Virginia. Virginia became a province in what was known as the Southern Colonies, along with Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Just north of these lied the Middle Colonies, which included Pennsylvania,…
James Otis was a noteworthy figure prior to and during the American Revolution. He was born in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to a father who was well-known political figure. Otis graduated from Harvard and became a celebrated lawyer. He married Ruth Cunningham and they had three children, but their marriage was tumultuous because of their dissimilar political views. During the 1750’s, he was very loyal to the British Crown and was chosen as advocate general in the Vice Admiralty Court, a juryless…
After being exiled from Massachusetts, Roger williams established a colony settlement called Providence. Roger williams believed that God had brought him and his followers there, and that is the reason why he named the site “Providence Plantation”. Before the Providence trade, the…
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…