Samuel Beckett

The American Revolution was a combination of wanting new ideas and creating a new society and in the process escape from Britain. The Revolution couldn’t have taken place without religious background. In A History of the American People by Paul Johnson, he states that “ the American Revolution, in its origins, was a religious event” “That the fact was to shape the American Revolution from start to finish and determine he nature of the independent state it brought into being” One of few reasons…

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” These words were the start of the Declaration of Independence written in 1776. The document was created as a final attempt to get freedom from England. Colonists had left England in search of freedom in America but instead found they were still controlled by the King. In hope of gaining…

By most historians the Salem Witch Trails were a product of mass hysteria; it all fueled by hearsay and distorted stories – even out of mere dislike of a neighbor. The Puritans, who had left England for religious freedom, noticed more and more individualism of the people of Salem and felt a loss of control of them. They used this hysteria, to try and bring them back to the church, but people even became weary of church members and suspected them of witchcraft. The extremely religious community,…

The ways of immigration in the 1600’s and 1700’s were extremely different than the way that immigrants come to America now. This week these three readings had a few similarities for example all of them came to America but, more difference between them. Within these three readings about the immigrants there was two immigrants that had it harder than the other one. The main similarity between these three articles is that all the immigrants came to America. Also, they all came from somewhere…

The final evidence that caused the Salem Witch Trial to occur was due to the health problems among the residents. The lives of the Puritans were difficult. They were required to practice religion, and the majority of them had to work on farms. The soils in New England was rocky, which made it hard to grow anything, plus the harsh winter made it more difficult. However, one thing that Colonial Massachusetts were able to grow was Rye. Rye is a type of wheat that many people used to bake bread.…

In 1692, the town of Salem in the Massachusetts saw the rise of paranoia to power and the degradation of social order the likes of which has never been seen in American History. An entire community of people swept up in a sudden outbreak of elaborate scheming, finger-pointing, and witchcraft that ended in tragedy. Was it down the fault of Puritanism, economic conspiracy within Salem, or a group of young girls too afraid of getting caught in a lie to reveal the truth? As anything in history, the…

Dear my King George , King George it is urgent that you read this letter carefully. We the colonist cannot allow you to rule over us. We never cared for the decisions you made. Like the Proclamation of 1763, we were living on the Appalachian Mountains, but you wanted to give it to some natives to save your own skin. That’s why you shouldn’t have fought in the French & Indian war that also caused us to lose the land of the Appalachian Mountains. Another idiotic thing you did was pass the…

Imperial policies made by the British were especially made to pay off war debt. As Britain saw itself in a huge debt from their previous Seven Years War, they saw an easy way out and that was to tax the colonists. Several acts such as the Sugar, the Currency, and the Mutiny Act of 1765 were passed in order to get what they wanted. But what they did not realize was that the acts they had passed were only turning the colonists against them and fermenting ideas to commit to republicanism. At the…

The American colonist were justified from breaking away from Britain. They were justified for many reasons. Two main reasons were, unfair taxation and being ruled under a tyrant. Although some say there were unjustified these reason are some of many that show how the colonist were justified. By breaking away from Britain they gained independence for the better. The colonists were justified because they were angry that they were being taxed and they had no one to represent the people of the…

The Salem witch trials were a even in history which can’t be forgotten. Due to the dumb decisions made by judges and playful acts by the girls from salem causing major damage to other people’s lives. But till this day many people still do not know the real reasons behind the Salem witch trials and how they all began. The trials had many factors that played into it which were: ergot poisoning, rivalries, and lastly boredom which really caused the most damage. Ergot What is ergot? Ergot is a…